Ocean City airport gets grant
The Ocean City municipal airport has received a grant of more than $160,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation to upgrade a runway that was constructed in 1978.
U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski announced the funding Thursday. They said in a news release that the airport is now considered to be in a "state of failure" by airport officials.
The $161,465 grant is slated to be spent on the design and engineering work necessary to reconstruct the airport's north/south runway. Officials in the senators' offices say the rehabilitation project will help the runway meet Federal Aviation Administration standards.
-- Associated Press
By
Michael Bolden
| September 16, 2010; 1:37 PM ET
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Airports, Aviation
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Posted by: jiji1 | September 16, 2010 5:16 PM | Report abuse
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it's bad enough that Ocean City *has* an airport, but why should the department of transportation care about it when infrastructure that ordinary people use is literally crumbling around us?
were the Senators bribed?