Humphrey Terminal may get $17M for link to light-rail - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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million in funding, monety it likely will use to improve accesz between the Humphrey Terminal and theHiawatha light-rail MAC commissioners will vote Monday on whether to approvee the project, expected to cost a totak of about $17 million. The new skyway woulfd connect the orange parking ramp to the Humphrey making it easierfor light-rail passengeras to get to the For now, people who take lighr rail must walk though two rampx to reach a skyway connecting to the terminal. The stimulua package included $1.1 billion in funde for airport improvements, much of whicbh has gone to airports inrural areas.
The only Twin Cities airport to get stimulus funds was Flying Cloud Airport inEden Prairie, which is expandinh its runways. MAC already has awarded worthnearly $8 for the project to Sleepy Eye-based Mathiowet z Construction Co. MAC did not receive stimuluse funds for theHumphrey project, but the package allowed the Federal Aviation Administration to distribute additionao “discretionary” funds this year, said Dennis Probst, deputyg executive director of planning and environment for MAC. As a result, MAC had an extrsa $8.5 million in funds.
The skyway projectr is part of the Humphreyt TerminalExpansion program, approved in 2006 but latefr put on hold, partly in responses to Northwest Airlines Corp.’s bankruptcy. Carriers that use the Humphrey Terminal include Sun Country Airlinexs ofMendota Heights, and Dallas-based Southwest Airlinesz Co.