Sounds like a great deal to me. The Cypress freeway rebuild here in the SF area took 10+ years and cost 100,000 of thousands of dollars per foot! David R http://home.attbi.com/~damiross http://home.attbi.com/~damiross/books.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael A. Burris" <yul@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 16:39 Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] Seattletimes.com: Cost of third runway could top $1 billion > AIRLINE: > > That makes is $117,647 and five cents for every foot > and one must also factor in runway lights, markers, > and perhaps landscaping/drainage and, oh yes, a > parallel taxi way to the active! > > Pretty expensive runway. I'm sure they wish that they > had built it years ago. In '97 I stayed at the Holiday > Inn and of course, Alaska Airlines every five minutes > screaming by! There are some fairly old houses around > there, so I suspect that someone representing them in > this lawsuit. > > Hmmm! The only real winners so far are the lawyers! > > Mike Burris > Cambridge, Mass > > > --- Alireza Alivandivafa <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > In a message dated 6/24/2003 4:20:32 PM Pacific > > Daylight Time, > > yul@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > > > << I learned once either here on this board or > > elsewhere, > > that a runway is about 4'-6' feet thick. Is this > > new > > runway for the larger jets? How long will it be? > > I'm > > guessing it might be over 8000 feet >> > > > > It will supposedly be about 8500 >