{"id":248766,"date":"2013-03-29T01:55:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T06:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=248766"},"modified":"2013-03-29T15:11:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T20:11:46","slug":"city-pleased-with-move-to-fund-control-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=248766","title":{"rendered":"City Pleased with Move to Fund Control Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/03\/Pounds-Field-Control-Tower1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/03\/Pounds-Field-Control-Tower1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pounds Field Control Tower\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-248541\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 City of Tyler leaders are very pleased that TxDOT\u2019s moving forward with a bid to fund control towers of 13 airports about to lose federal funding \u2014 including Tyler Pounds Regional Airport. City Engineer Carter Delleney told KTBB, \u201cThe city of Tyler feels it\u2019s great news. This is obviously a very prudent measure on the part of TxDOT.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The state transportation department announced Thursday that it intends to fund continued service of air traffic controllers when federal funding goes away as a result of sequestration, or budget cuts. That\u2019s according to a TxDOT news release via KETK. TxDOT\u2019s action is pending Texas Transportation Commission approval and will be acted upon in an emergency session next week. Delleney says he\u2019s optimistic the commission will keep the Tyler control tower open. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSafety is the primary reason we felt a need to take immediate action for the air travelers and business aircraft that use these airports,\u201d said Commissioner Fred Underwood, Texas Transportation Commission. \u201cI am proud of our leaders for taking this extraordinary measure to ensure that those relying on these municipal airports will be able to depart and arrive safely and efficiently.\u201d TxDOT executive director Phil Wilson added, \u201cFlying is an integral part of commerce in Texas. Local communities are counting on these airports to remain open for continued economic success.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>When automatic budget cuts from the federal government went into effect last month, Texas regional airports were caught in the cross hairs and were scheduled to lose funding for air traffic control service positions beginning April 7. Had this funding not been considered, officials say a degradation of safety in those flight operations could have occurred. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 City of Tyler leaders are very pleased that TxDOT\u2019s moving forward with a bid to fund control towers of 13 airports about to lose federal funding \u2014 including Tyler Pounds Regional Airport. City Engineer Carter Delleney told KTBB, \u201cThe city of Tyler feels it\u2019s great news. This is obviously a very prudent measure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=248766\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">City Pleased with Move to Fund Control Towers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 07:20:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248766"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248867,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248766\/revisions\/248867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}