Word: stapleton
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...Denver, despite the economy's woes, the new airport still faces determined opposition. It will be a mammoth project, far bigger than Chicago's O'Hare and Dallas-Fort Worth combined. Building it will entail shutting down the 60-year-old Stapleton Airport, the nation's fifth busiest...
Romer, Pena and other boosters decried the frequent and long delays that have already become legendary at Stapleton, a point seconded by Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner on a visit during the campaign. The field's two main runways are too close together for simultaneous instrument landings; in bad weather only one can be used. Airport planners contend that a new field could be financed without any tax money. They expect to receive $500 million from Washington and to raise the rest by selling bonds that would be redeemed by fees charged to airlines and concessionaires...
...Federal Government is going to help in a very substantial way," but he studiously avoided being pinned down to a figure.) Thus, they insisted, the project would force tax increases that Denver residents could not afford. The two main airlines servicing Denver, United and Continental, point out that Stapleton still has 25 unused gates; some expansion of runway capacity, they argued, was all that was needed. But the vote made it obvious that few citizens listened. It is only in the nation's booming Seattles, it seems, that residents can ask, What price growth? In the depressed Denvers, even...
...years no one officially questioned the Malones' self-proclaimed blackness. Then in February the twins were put on a list of blacks among firemen proposed for promotion to lieutenant. The list went to fire commissioner Leo Stapleton. He knew the Malones were the department's only identical twins, and if they weren't white, it was news to him. Stapleton asked the state's department of personnel administration to check out the twins' status. The emerging issue was pointedly expressed by black city councilman Bruce Bolling: "How could twins with Irish names, Caucasian features and no black identification from...
More airports are needed, but finding a site with willing neighbors is nearly impossible in most cities. The first completely new airport since 1974 will be Denver's, which voters in nearby Adams County approved in May. Denver's current airport, Stapleton, was built to handle 18 million passengers a year, and is swamped by 35 million. The new $3 billion airport is expected to accommodate 50 million by the mid-1990s. Colorado Governor Roy $ Romer, who campaigned for the new airport, made an economic appeal. Said he: "This airport is our one and only chance. We can become...