No end in sight for FAA shutdown

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JOAN LOWY

WASHINGTON (AP) - In Traverse City, Mich., work on replacing a 30-year-old air traffic control tower at Cherry Capital Airport has been halted. The job was about 40 percent completed, and crews had planned to lift the "cab" section to the top of the tower this week, airport manager Kevin Klein said.

But that was before a legislative stalemate between Republicans and Democrats in Congress forced the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, the furlough of nearly 4,000 federal workers and the issuance of stop-work orders for dozens of airport construction projects across the country.

"It's very frustrating," Klein said. "It puts about 50 construction workers out of a job. But about 200 people are involved in this some way - designers, engineers, vendors, delivery folks. It's going to be a hardship on them."

The FAA has also told airports to stop work on the installation of runway status lights, a new safety system aimed at preventing planes from colliding on the ground or taking off or landing on closed runways. At McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, construction officials were told Monday that they have until the end of the week to wrap up their work and then stop. Construction on a new airport tower has also been delayed.


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[n2doc]

1. The t-bagger vision of the future of american government n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

2. It isn't "the Debt Ceiling". It's John Boehner losing the reins to the team of horses.

He can't conduct business at The House.

Not only does the FAA lose tax revenue for every day, the cost of completing the FAA projects increases.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Thanks a steenking pantload, RepubliBagger (R) FAIL freaks

you are making a class-a mess out of America.

[Botany]

4. John Boehner “Where Are the Jobs?”

Republicans are willing to hurt millions of people in order to hurt the President and the truth be told they don't give a rat's
ass about the deficit. Their raison d'être is all about political power, money, and taking care of the rich.

BTW Michigan needs every job it can get.

[Gman]

5. All because Inhoffe did something dangerously stupid with his plane

And made himself a victim of the FAA. He almost killed people but he's the victim and now the country's air travel is held hostage because of it.

[Blue_Tires]

7. +1

[WhiteTara]

6. This is the work of Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma

http://www.avweb.com/blogs/insider/AVWebInsider_InhofeFollow_204109-1.html

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/inhofe-scared-crap-out-airport-workers-192645

He vowed he'd get even for his little slap on the wrist. They should have taken his license.

[maddogesq]

8. Had that been you or me that pulled that stupid move...

we would have lost our licenses toot sweet. Bottom line: He put lives in danger. The FAA let him off way too easy.

[WhiteTara]

9. But, he's still destroying what little safety we have leflt

because he's miffed that he was told he was at fault.

[amyrose2712]

10. My BF is one of them.