Hanscom News: Changes to Hanscom Infrastructure

• 9/22/05 Globe, Concord Journal: Massport is unveiling plans to improve Hanscom's 5/23 runway which they say is required by the FAA for safety reasons. Critics argue that it paves the way for larger airplanes and jets to use the runway.

• 11/24/04 Lincoln Journal: Massport gave the go-ahead to consultants McFarland Johnson to work on the project of improving safety areas at the ends of Runway 5-23 that do not fully meet FAA rules.

• 9/18/03 Concord Journal: New hangars may be in the works at Hanscom Field. 

• 2/20/03 Lincoln Journal: In an attempt to defend the injunction against building additional runways at Logan, counsel for the city of Boston argued that Hanscom has "essentially the same air side facilities" as New York's LaGuardia airport and should be expanded.

• 10/17/02 Concord Journal: ShhAir encourages residents to get involved and take a look at the expansion that Massport is planning for at Hanscom. 

• 11/25/01 Globe, Bedford Minuteman: Massport is postponing indefinitely more than $1.5 million worth of improvements to the Civil Air Terminal and parking area at Hanscom Field, due to budget cuts caused by lagging business at Boston's Logan International Airport.

• 10/19/01 Globe: Massport's many possible changes include a recommendation from their director of capital programs to delay $280 million in building projects over the next 18 months, including "most work at Hanscom Field in Bedford."

• 9/27/01 Globe: Following the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, Hanscom Air Force Base is accelerating plans to add an 8 foot high barbed wire fence around the base.

• 9/27/01 Lincoln Journal: Mass Highway Department is planning to build a pedestrian underpass under Hanscom Drive to provide a safer path between historical sites.

• Massport has discussed proposals to lengthen runway 5 and relocate Virginia Road.. The claim is that this is needed to provide a safety zone. In a meeting on January 16 , Massport recommended regrading a safety zone but not moving Virginia Road.

• 11/18/99 Concord Journal: Plan for hangar at Hanscom presented.

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