LB Airport Gave Residents A Few Hours To Run On Repaved Runway 25R/7L...And A BIG Crowd Showed Up For Unique Opportunity

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by Dan Halverson

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(Mar. 31, 2015) -- In a very creative promotion, LB Airport gave the public about two hours to do what the public is normally never allowed to do: to run (or walk) on newly repaved runway 25R/7L this afternoon...and a big crowd showed up for the unique opportunity.

VIDEO below is via WebCastLongBeach.

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Photo by Dan Halverson

Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream

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The 25R/7L runway rehab began in Feb. 2014, and with its reopening to aircraft on April 17, 2015, about 30% of LGB's air traffic -- which under LB's Airport ordinance is noise limited to mainly general aviation/small aircraft -- will return to the runway (which lines up very roughly between Wardlow Rd./Carson St. to the east and between 36th/37th St. to the west.) The FAA provided LB Airport with $15.1 million (the largest such grant ever received by LGB) to refurbish 25R and improve access to Taxiways E and F, as well as make improvements to the shoulder, perimeter road and adjoining pavement area says an Airport release.

Runway 25R/7L was last repaved in 1993...and the new rehab is expected to last for roughly 30 years, LB Airport says.