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by Nick Miller With FAA developing a research roadmap, and fears (hopes?) expressed by many in our airport noise community that the compatibility guideline might change, I became “curiouser and curiouser” about the real origin of 65 DNL as various claims were made about its origin, its immutability, its arbitrariness, and its scientific basis or

CLICK ON PHOTO TO PLAY SLIDESHOW: The original SeaTac City Council poses for an official photo in 1990. In the back row, from left, are Terry Anderson, Julia Patterson, Kathy Gehring-Waters and Jeanne Masters. In the front row are Shirley Thompson, Frank Hansen and Joe Brennan. City of SeaTac photos Fri, 02/26/2010 The city of

By Walt Crowley (with research by Daryl McClary and Paula Becker) Posted 6/21/2003 HistoryLink.org Essay 4211 The development of a third “dependent” runway at Seattle-Tacoma (Sea-Tac) International Airport, the state’s largest airport, was one of the largest and most sensitive public works projects in regional history. The need for an additional runway for bad-weather operations

The Port of Seattle announced today it is buying the partially abandoned Renton-to-Seattle rail line from BNSF Railway for a reduced price of $81.4 million — a deal that may eventually lead to side-by-side trails and passenger trains. By Keith Ervin A weakened real-estate market and the Port of Seattle’s financial strains led the agency

by Ralph Nichols Burien City Council members were presented with dismal sales tax figures from City Manager Mike Martin at the beginning of their meeting last Monday, Oct. 5th. Through July, the city’s sales tax revenue for the year to date was down 16.2 percent compared with the same time frame in 2008, Martin reported.

Sea-Tac’s third runway is flooded with troubles. By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am Wading through it: Christopher Gower fights the Port’s bull. IN ORDER TO BUILD its long awaited third runway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the Port of Seattle plans to buy and transport between 15 and 20 million cubic yards of gravel, sand, and

ByThomas Frank, USA TODAY September 16, 2009, 9:15 PM WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. — One of the USA’s newest airports has a 5,500-foot lighted runway, a Colonial-style terminal with white columns, and hundreds of acres for growth. But Kentucky’s Williamsburg-Whitley County Airport lacks one feature: airline passengers. Built using $11 million in federal money, the airport is used

The new technology steers air traffic on autopilot along a smoothly descending, satellite-guided path, avoiding the stair-step approach and constant interplay with air traffic controllers now required to bring in planes.

SEATTLE – A tiny mistake – about half the thickness of a dime – could end up costing about $1 million at the Port of Seattle. When the port built a new cargo terminal for stevedoring company SSA Marine, a trench was dug to hold the electrical cable for the giant cranes that lift containers