"New York airport adds patrol road, fence"

Thursday, September 11, 2003

Airport adds patrol road, fence
By Steve Orr 
The Rochester (NY) Democrat Chronicle


With an eye toward improving both security and safety, Monroe County will
use a $2 million federal grant to extend an internal access road around the
airport's southern perimeter. 

The new road will allow sheriff's deputies to patrol a part of the airport
that is far from the terminal and relatively remote but close to the end of
the main runway where planes land and take off. 

Airport employees also can use the road to reach the southern part of the
grounds without driving on taxiways or runways, said Terrence Slaybaugh,
director of the Greater Rochester International Airport. The airport now has
internal perimeter roads on the northern and eastern sides of the complex.
New 8-foot-high security fencing also is part of the project. 

"It's not very exciting stuff, but we need it," Slaybaugh said Wednesday. 

The road is one of a number of security-related improvements at the airport.


The County Legislature is scheduled to vote Oct. 14 to award the first
construction contract in a major terminal renovation that will result in
creation of a new passenger checkpoint in the center of the terminal. 

When the new checkpoint is built, only passengers will be allowed into what
now is the main public section of the terminal, on the building's southern
side. 

The project also involves new escalators, elevators and restrooms, and
construction of new areas on the terminal's northern side where
nonpassengers can drop off and greet air travelers. Slaybaugh said work on
that project is to start in January and be finished in July. It will cost
about $6.5 million, of which the federal government provides 90 percent,
with New York state and the county each contributing 5 percent.


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