{"id":51922,"date":"2025-07-09T17:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/51922\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:16:13","slug":"san-diego-airport-receives-faa-infrastructure-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/51922\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Airport receives FAA infrastructure grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/friar-tuck.png?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/friar-tuck.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-281806\"  \/><\/a>The Swinging Friar, The San Diego Padres\u2019s mascot prepares to unload luggage from newly arrived flight at the San Diego International Airport on Friday, August 2. Photo by Hannah Ramirez<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.san.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego International Airport<\/a> is receiving $15 million in grant funding from the Federal Aviation Administration to bolster aviation infrastructure, officials announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The funding comes through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/airports\/aip\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Airport Improvement Program<\/a>, which invests in projects such as runways, taxiways, noise cancellation, airport signage, airport lighting and airport markings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalifornians and the millions of people who visit our state each year deserve a safe and easy airport travel experience,\u201d said Sen. Alex Padilla, who announced the funding along with Sen. Adam Schiff. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat starts with modernizing and rehabilitating outdated airport infrastructure. These critical investments will not just make travel smoother for passengers, but will reduce noise pollution in neighboring communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schiff said the grants \u201cwill allow us to make critical investments in our airport infrastructure that will enhance the travel experience for millions of visitors and travelers, improve safety, create more jobs, and boost our local economies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 18 California airports were awarded a combined $81.3 million in grant funding.<\/p>\n<p>The San Diego project will acquire and install full noise mitigation measures for 250 residences affected by airport noise exposure.<\/p>\n<p>A full list of AIP awards for California airports can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.padilla.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/CA-FY-2025-AIP-Grants.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Swinging Friar, The San Diego Padres\u2019s mascot prepares to unload luggage from newly arrived flight at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[38853,38854,1852,5229,1582,276,29427,38855,5173,3549,16733,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-51922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-adam-schiff","9":"tag-airport-improvement-program","10":"tag-alex-padilla","11":"tag-america","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-california","14":"tag-faa","15":"tag-federal-grant","16":"tag-infrastructure","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-san-diego-international-airport","19":"tag-sandiego","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114824412518909758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}