Hello Terrell:
Airport activist agree with you about the need for a new airport. We lost that fight at the legislature several years ago. A long term solution would involve transit development with a new airport. St. Cloud would be the perfect location for a new airport when the Republicans decid
Terrel Brown wrote:
"MOST Minneapolis residents don't care. No one north of Lake Street and in
some areas north of Crosstown is affected by airport noise."
I live more than eight blocks north of Lake street in Seward, and I noticed
yesterday that I can't hold a telephone conversation with the w
We would have a 30% decrease in air freight traffic using those numbers. I think most Minneapolis residents would be happy with 30% reduction. Air freight traffic will increase significantly either in Minneapolis or St. Cloud/Rochester. The city needs to be proactive to help create a longterm solut
MAC's consultant HTNB recently (May 29) published the following forecast
for runway operations at MSP:
Rwy 2000
ops 2010 ops
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12L
115,862 134,500
12R
130,511
91,700
35
0 161,900
The numbers represent the t
Mr. Peterson is correct in his assertion that the new north/south runway
(17/35) is intended to provide greater capacity at MSP, but
unfortunately, there won't be any noise relief for the good citizens of
south Minneapolis.
In fact, expect a sharp INCREASE in noise pollution over Minneapolis as
The new runway is being done to increase capacity at the airport, and
provide some (there's controversy about exactly how much) noise relief to
South Minneapolis. It is shorter than the "crosswind" (4/22) runway by
about 3000 feet.
Basically, every structure between 24th and about 27th, from
My understanding is that 70 per cent of air freight goes out on passenger planes not at night on cargo only planes. This is what one of the top internal folks in Intergovernmental Relations at the City of Minneapolis told me last year. Therefore moving air freight doesn't really work. Lisa McDona
Mr Brown wrote:
"First we are NOT land banking for a new airport"
I agree, we are not. That is a problem.
"We do continue to expand the airport. As I write this new air freight facilities are
being built on the west side of the airport and construction has begun on a new
runway."
It is my
