"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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In a previous article, "Jay Honeck" said:
Are they able to reduce costs by closing now instead of a year from
now?

Not that I can discern. Unless you count the time spent snow plowing it
next winter?

I think the airport powers that be consider this fairly important. KROC
has a plan to make the runway that's only used by piston engined planes,
7-25 narrower by painting cross hatching on both sides, and that's
supposed to save money. The runway is a hold-over from the days when
airlines landed their DC-3s on it. Obviously the painting isn't going to
stop anybody rolling on it in the summer, so they must be thinking it will
take less time to plow in the winter.


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Saving money buy narrowing runways. We just had that happen here (ELD)
before a big repaving job was done. I can understand that and really have no
problem with the change EXCEPT. Instead of marking the area they didn't want
to repave they removed it completely. Cost a fortune and took longer than
the repaving job did. Stupidest thing I ever saw.