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Indy
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 08:56:25 pm
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I found this link while surfing the net.
http://www.visitingdc.com/imag...dianapolis-airport-address.jpg
I'm also attaching the image to this post in the event the image changes. I do not take credit for the image. It is simply for archiving purposes.
Not the cleared area across I-70. That area is where the taxiway would go over the interstate. Looking at the pic I'd guess it was taken in July or August of 2007. Has anyone been around that area that can comment on whether work is being done on the taxiway or not?
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 09:51:12 pm
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If you're talking about the cleared area southeast of I-70, what makes you think it's for the taxiway? You can see the same area on maps.live.com, and it's an irregularly shaped area where the dirt was messed around. It's between the radar tower and the radio tower site. But it looks to me like it was a place where they parked a bunch of trucks, maybe a concrete mixer, during the I-70 construction.
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:28:51 pm
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Here is an earlier image of that area from Google Maps. this looks to be not that long after I-70 was completed.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=...p;z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1
I'll check out your maps link. Not sure I've ever seen that site.
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:14:43 pm
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I love that link you posted. That cleaning isn't for a taxiway. But perhaps it is to make room for a building that must be moved. The taxiway will go right through what looks like a radar building.
http://www.in.gov/dot/div/spec...70airport/study/pics/hot02.jpg
This guy sits right in the middle of where the taxiway goes.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=...p;z=19&iwloc=addr&om=1
That clearing looks like it may have been graded and perhaps the new building will go there. In that DOT image there is some kind of blue marking near where that cleared spot is.
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:13:21 pm
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Actually, in the older image, it looks like there's a bad low spot in the field between the two radar/radio sites. Maybe in the newest image, they've graded the area and put in drainage of some sort? Otherwise, I'm stumped.
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:35:11 am
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Look at these links. The Google image is slightly older. The MSN (live.com) image looks pretty recent. The images are from almost the exact same point so you can see how they've changed. What is going on?
Google - older image
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=...p;z=17&iwloc=addr&om=1
MSN - newer image
http://maps.live.com/default.a...mp;explore=sst.0&encType=1
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 03:47:22 pm
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It really looks to me like the land has been drained for farming. In the older picture, taken when crops are coming up in the the spring, you can tell that the whole area had a water problem and the soybeans weren't coming up. Whoever farms that land probably came in and deep-plowed it all to remove hardpan layer and alleviate soil compaction. It doesn't look at all to me like the kind of grading you'd have prior to constructing anything - there are no erosion fences nor evidence of any surveyor's markers that delineate the area to be constructed, and the area is too irregularly shaped to be a construction site.
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 03:56:54 pm
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To me it had looked like grade work. Guess we shall see whenever the image updates
A ton of grading will be needed for the runway and the taxiway. I would think all that green space (empty area) between the interstate and the buildings/subdivision will need to be graded.
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 04:30:15 pm
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But you'll hear a LOT about a third runway LONG before any ground gets scratched. Even though they already have the land and it's been in many long-range plans, the airport authority will still have to do environmental impact studies, etc. Public hearings, notifications, permits, blah, blah, blah.And you can expect some people will do some bitching.
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 06:38:06 pm
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Do we know whether they have already done the environmental impact studies? Would public hearings be held if FX was the one to build it?
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:39:44 pm
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FedEx is NOT building the runway. The airports authority will build it.
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:26:13 am
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BTW we drove by the FedEx facility today and something is going on over there but don't know what it is.
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 09:10:17 pm
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They are building a bridge over the highway that will join Hanah Ave. on the other side, probably for the FDX trucks to reduce traffic load for the terminal
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 09:44:24 pm
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They are building a bridge over the highway that will join Hanah Ave. on the other side, probably for the FDX trucks to reduce traffic load for the terminal
Ah yes. Hanah. Good call. Checked out a map and that is about the point where Hanah meets I-70.
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