Runway extension and Media
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$90million, but only if …..
- Wellington Scoop
- When city councillors this week reconfirmed their decision that the city should pay $90million towards the unknown cost of extending the airport runway into Cook Strait, some pre-conditions had been added. The key one: that an international airline should have committed to using the runway, before the council hands over the money.
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Impossible dreams
- Wellington Scoop
- The news that Wellington Airport wants $200million of public money to pay for most of the cost of extending its runway seems to have relegated the proposal to the list of the city’s impossible dreams.
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The runway extension, petrol tankers, and Evans Bay’s unique marine life
- Wellington Scoop
- Plans to extend the runway at the northern end of Wellington Airport involve a tunnel under the extension – with consequences that the City Council and the Regional Council have not yet taken into account. It’s against the law for fuel tankers to travel through tunnels, and there’s already a tunnel at the southern end of the runway.
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