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TELLURIDE — After peak crews of up to 85 workers spent seven months rearranging more than 1 million cubic yards of dirt at the Telluride Regional Airport, runway safety improvements have been completed and TEX is scheduled for an on-time reopening next Wednesday, Nov. 4. “It was a good project, it went well,” said Airport Manager Rich Nuttall. “In another week or so we’ll be open for business.”The second of a four-phase project that will eventually increase the airport’s safety rating and enable it to accommodate the 66-to 78-seat Q400 turboprop aircraft, the project lowered the runway by 30 feet at its west end and by 14 feet at its east end.The excavated material was used to backfill a 16-foot dip at the runway’s center that gave it the concave curve of a banana and helped earn TEX its reputation as one of the most challenging mountain airports in the nation.Crews also paved the formerly dirt shoulders alongside the runway, began widening the adjacent safety areas, and set in place an 800-foot long steel tunnel that should be completed between now and 2012, according to Nuttall.The tunnel is wide enough to accommodate a semi-trailer truck and will eventually allow drivers to pass underneath the runway to access hangars planned for its south side.“We used to be known for the dip, now we’re going to be know for the tunnel,” he said
Contact me, Buzz Fedorka, for updates on this or Telluride real estate at buzz@fedorka.com.
TELLURIDE — After peak crews of up to 85 workers spent seven months rearranging more than 1 million cubic yards of dirt at the Telluride Regional Airport, runway safety improvements have been completed and TEX is scheduled for an on-time reopening next Wednesday, Nov. 4. “It was a good project, it went well,” said Airport Manager Rich Nuttall. “In another week or so we’ll be open for business.”The second of a four-phase project that will eventually increase the airport’s safety rating and enable it to accommodate the 66-to 78-seat Q400 turboprop aircraft, the project lowered the runway by 30 feet at its west end and by 14 feet at its east end.The excavated material was used to backfill a 16-foot dip at the runway’s center that gave it the concave curve of a banana and helped earn TEX its reputation as one of the most challenging mountain airports in the nation.Crews also paved the formerly dirt shoulders alongside the runway, began widening the adjacent safety areas, and set in place an 800-foot long steel tunnel that should be completed between now and 2012, according to Nuttall.The tunnel is wide enough to accommodate a semi-trailer truck and will eventually allow drivers to pass underneath the runway to access hangars planned for its south side.“We used to be known for the dip, now we’re going to be know for the tunnel,” he said
Contact me, Buzz Fedorka, for updates on this or Telluride real estate at buzz@fedorka.com.
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