Chronicle Opines On SF Airport Expansion

The $3.5 billion battle plan to extend San Francisco International Airport runways appears to be dead.

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May 2, 2003, 12:00 PM PDT

"No one favors pushing ahead with the $3.5 billion plan to extend San Francisco International Airport runways. Not its heretofore prime booster, Mayor Willie Brown, not an airline industry on life support, and especially not environmental and political foes who never liked the plan to fill in part of the bay... The runway extensions aren't needed as flights are cut, airlines flounder in bankruptcy and the airport lays off 85 staffers with a hard-times city budget."

Thanks to California Infrastructure Brief

FULL STORY: Why spend more on SFO runways?

Wednesday, April 30, 2003 in The San Francisco Chronicle

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