February 27, 2003
For Immediate Release
Contact: Mindy Hamlin, Communications Dept.
Phone: 840-2100 ext. 207
RDU
Ends Random Vehicle Searches
Airport to reopen parking spaces closest to the terminals
RDU AIRPORT, NC (February 27, 2003) - The Raleigh-Durham
Airport Authority today closed its vehicle inspection checkpoint and began
reopening parking spaces within 300 feet of the terminals. The changes
are in response to the Department of Homeland Security lowering the national
terror threat level to yellow. Early this afternoon, the Authority received
authorization from the Transportation Security Administration to cease
the random vehicle inspections and open the parking spaces.
The airport will also reopen access to the airport’s terminals from the I-70/Lumley Road entrance.
The airport began the random vehicle inspections nearly two weeks ago. The TSA, the agency responsible for aviation security, requires airports to close parking spaces within 300 feet of the terminals and to conduct random searches of vehicles approaching the terminals only when the Homeland Security terror threat level is at orange or above.
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