In the wake of a published report detailing numerous close calls on airport runways, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Wednesday that it has designated an additional $121 million for projects intended to reduce runway incursion risks.
This most recent round of funding, which follows awards earlier this year of $100 million to airports across the country to finance similar projects and more than $1 billion for a larger package of airport improvement projects, will enable eight airports to reconfigure potentially confusing taxiways and to install new lighting systems, the FAA said.
“The FAA is serious about ending runway incursions, and we are putting substantial resources behind our efforts,” Shannetta Griffin, FAA associate administrator for airports, said.
The FAA’s announcement came two days after publication of a New York Times repo…
