Alberta to provide $30 million for upgrades at Red Deer Regional Airport | 24CA News
The Alberta authorities says it’s spending $30 million to broaden the Red Deer Regional Airport as a part of this 12 months’s finances.
The province says the cash is to go towards making it a brand new nationwide transportation logistics hub in central Alberta.
The funding is constructing on a $7.5-million grant for the airport to restore and improve its runway.
Budget funding can be to help street building and civil works, together with water sanitation, stormworks and fibre optics for a close-by township street.
The province says the enlargement is to create extra emergency entry to the airport and the hamlet of Springbrook, which might improve the protection of native residents.
Planning can be underway for a brand new passenger terminal, which might permit for 737 plane passenger service.
“The Red Deer Regional Airport is situated along one of the busiest transportation hubs in the province,” Jim Wood, mayor of Red Deer County, stated within the province’s news launch Wednesday.
“This expansion will provide huge economic benefits to central Alberta.”
Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen stated airports play a essential function in strengthening and diversifying Alberta’s economic system.
“(Airports expand) access to markets, as we don’t have direct access to tidewater,” he stated in Wednesday’s news launch.
“This investment will allow additional aviation cargo and logistics services, which will not only provide new travel options and get more products to market, but also create jobs and help attract new investment to central Alberta.”
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