Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the Editor)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February, 2004

Clearing confusion on the O'Hare plan It's time to clear up confusion about the master plan for O'Hare Airport that Chicago submitted to the FAA on Feb. 6. The master plan represents all that could be built over the next 20 years. It does not represent what must be built. The master plan is what the name suggests: a plan.

In fact, it contained little new information and simply compiled plans and costs of existing projects into one document. Neither the cost nor scope has changed. The cost remains $6.6 billion in 2001 dollars. The program still includes one new runway, the relocation of three existing runways and the extension of two others. The program also includes a 1.5-million-square-foot terminal complex on the west side of the airport that will include...