![]() Around $30.6 million in new federal funding has been approved for a project that will make operations at the Denver International Airport much brighter. The Federal Aviation Administration has announced that it is committing those funds to the reconstruction of both a runway and taxiway lighting system. The Denver work is one of many airport lighting system projects across the country that have recently secured funding out of Washington, with that funding originally coming out of the Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act of 2021. "We're acting to improve lighting systems at 82 airports, an important part of keeping aircraft moving safely, no matter the time of day or weather," remarked Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. Altogether, some 82 airports are getting new federal funding for lighting projects which include the installation of in-pavement runway lights designed to let pilots know when entering a runway is unsafe. Additional projects will see the use of surface detection equipment, which makes it possible for air traffic controllers to track surface movement of aircraft and vehicles. A final initiative centers on arrival technology that can predict when a pilot is nearing a runway, thus alerting controllers both visually and audibly. A second Colorado airport project will see taxiway lighting rehabilitation at the Eagle County Regional Airport in Gypsum, which is getting just over $3.8 million in funding; and a runway reconstruction lighting project at the Pueblo Memorial Airport, slated for $571,000 in funding. A final Colorado project is targeting $304,000 for the reconstruction of lighting and installation of a runway vertical/visual guidance system at the Spanish Peaks Airport in Walsenburg. In Arizona, the Safford Regional Airport is receiving $304,000 for a taxiway rehabilitation project, while in New Mexico, the Lea County Regional Airport in Hobbs is slated to receive just over $1 million to rehabilitate runway lighting. A second New Mexico project is seeing the Raton Municipal Airline receiving just under $74,000 to build and expand an airport lighting vault. By Garry Boulard
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