Mayor at odds with Ryan over 6th runway

One week after Illinois Transportation Secretary Kirk Brownadvised the governor to drop the southernmost runway from Daley's $6billion O'Hare expansion plan, the mayor insisted that it is criticalto efficient O'Hare operations.

"You have to look at the whole picture dealing with parallelrunways. There's six of them. You need six. You need three taking offand three landing. Simple as that. This is not rocket scientist work.You need three and three," the mayor said.

"That's what all the airports are doing. . . . No new runways arecrossing. . . . Everyone is building parallel runways. None of therunways are ever going to cross again," he said.

The 7,500-foot south …