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Airport runway argument continues to expand
By JOHN M. ROMAN, jroman@delcotimes.com03/21/2005
The proposal to expand a runway to cut down on flight delays at
Philadelphia International Airport will have a direct effect on car
traffic in the area, too.
And local officials continue to raise their voices against the plan to
expand Runway 17-35, saying it will send more planes over residential
areas in Delaware County while wreaking havoc with vehicle traffic in
the vicinity of the airport.
Traffic patterns on state and city roads adjacent to the proposed runway
extension will have to be changed to accommodate the increased air
traffic.
Its proponents say expanding Runway17-35 will reduce flight delays by 84
seconds in 2007. Critics wonder if that’s enough to warrant the upheaval
the plan likely will cause.
Some Delaware County residents and officials aren’t optimistic about how
the expansion plan will affect traffic on these well-traveled roads
north and west of the runway.
"Before we’re going to agree to any road closing, any change in traffic
patterns and what-not, we want all our traffic signal lights to be
synchronized," said Tinicum Manager Norbert Poloncarz.
"Should something go wrong on Bartram Avenue or I-95, all that traffic’s
going to be diverted through Tinicum," he said. This happened recently
when a city fire truck was involved in a collision near the airport
entrance off I-95, he said.
He said he wants the airport "to pick up the tab for all of this so that
traffic can flow through town (along state Route 291).
"The FAA only looked at the extension of the runway, but they don’t look
at the road and the road closing," Poloncarz said.
"They’re causing the problem, and they have to assume the
responsibility. You’re going to see all those jam-ups if something goes
wrong."
The FAA is expected to reach a final decision on its recommendation --
preferred Alternative 1, which extends Runway 17-35 by 640 feet to the
north and 400 feet to the south -- no less than 30 days after the public
comment period closes on the Final Environmental Impact Statement April
11.
"There’s no definitive date," said Jim Peters, public affairs spokesman
for the Federal Aviation Administration office in Jamaica, N.Y.
"The record of decision is the triggering document that will either tell
the airport they can’t do anything if they select the no-action
alternative or clears the beginning for the design and planning for the
runway extension, if that’s the alternative that we select."
The FAA’s "preferred alternative" cited in its Final EIS released early
this month would close a portion of state Route 291 (Industrial Highway)
in Philadelphia encircling the Economy Parking Lot and reroute traffic
to Bartram Avenue, a city street, from Scott Way to Island Avenue.
If no action is taken, three intersections would exhibit unacceptable
levels of service during the morning and/or evening peak hours in 2015
"due to growth in vehicular traffic," the document states.
The preferred alternative would result in a "minor increase in traffic
volumes on Bartram Avenue," and improvements at four intersections would
improve service over the no-action alternative, the report states.
The design of these improvementswould be coordinated with the
Philadelphia Department of Streets, PennDOT and appropriate federal,
local and state agencies to ensure that they were designed to "safely
accommodate existing and planned bicycle lanes and routes," the EIS
concluded in its Surface Transportation recommendations.
When asked for details about the road construction, Peters said, "that’s
not our call, the details on how the construction would take place would
rest solely with Philadelphia.
"PennDOT has nothing to do with it," he said. "It would be up to the
airport to lay out the construction schedule on how it would proceed and
how they would handle the (road) traffic.
"If some part of the project that occurs off the airport, it’s up to the
City of Philadelphia to work with whoever has responsibility for those
roadways," Peters said.
At the FAA public hearing in November in the Eastwick section of
Philadelphia, some residents raised questions about how the flow of
traffic through their community would be handled, he said.
"And we did give them some information on that," Peters said. "We have
no responsibility for state or locally owned roadways off the airport,
that’s beyond our oversight."
Meanwhile, Poloncarz pointed out that 60 percent of the airport’s 2,300
acres are located in Tinicum, including the new Overseas Terminal A and
part of Terminal B, Departures. He said that the northern portion of
Runway 17-35 is in Philadelphia, but the section near the Delaware River
is in Tinicum.
"We’re having our engineer, James MacCombie, look into this aspect on
what they want to do with Route 291 and find out what our legal rights
are in this case," Poloncarz said. "It’s got to be worked out."
PennDOT Assistant Press Secretary Gene Blaum said the proposed road
realignment and related work isn’t a PennDOT project and referred a
reporter to the airport and city.
However, he did report that the average daily traffic volume on state
Route 291 at Bartram Avenue is about 17,200 vehicles and the traffic
volume increases on Route 291 at Island Avenue to about 52,000 vehicles.
Blaum said he didn’t have any figures available for Bartram Avenue
because it’s a city-owned street.
Mark Pesce, airport public relations manager, declined to discuss any
details of the proposed surface transportation options and issued a
prepared statement.
"Because the FAA process is so exhaustive, we are inclined to believe
that Alternative 1 will have minimal impact to the surrounding
communities," the statement read. "If there is an impact, PHL
(Philadelphia International Airport) is prepared to take proactive steps
to mitigate any impact."
Dan Fee, a spokesman for Philadelphia Mayor John Street, said "the goal
is always to be sensitive to the needs and concerns of the community
while working toward getting this necessary (airport) expansion done. We
will continue to consult and work with the community to find out what is
the best way to accomplish both these goals."
U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon, R-7, of Thornbury, whose district includes a
portion of Tinicum, as does U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, D-1, of Philadelphia,
said, "the fast-tracked solution to this problem, the extension of
Runway 17-35, will allow larger aircraft to travel a flight path that
has been traditionally used for smaller jet airliners.
"The larger planes will travel over densely populated areas and will
undoubtedly raise the noise levels sporadically throughout a 24-hour
period, as well as increase the safety risk to our schools, residents
and businesses," he said.
"It has been estimated that the extension of Runway 17-35 will cost
anywhere from $35 to $56 million in order to only save between .2 to 1.4
minutes of delay per flight," Weldon said.
"It was only a few years ago that the Philadelphia International Airport
completed the construction of the jetliner runway that I am now being
told is also obsolete," Weldon said. "I am concerned for any resident of
Pennsylvania whose quality of life is adversely affected."
Brady’s chief of staff, Stanley White, said that to the best of his
knowledge Brady hadn’t read the final EIS document and its options.
"This is the first I’ve heard about that proposal (for road
realignment)," he said.
However, White said, "we have received complaints about the impact of
the airport from some of the congressman’s Delaware County constituents
-- and he takes those complaints seriously."
Mike Levin, of Oakmont, Haverford, an environmental scientist/consultant
with the Coalition of Communities Against Runway 17-35, said "this is an
issue that is going to affect the people of Delaware County very
seriously, but the effects are hidden at this point."
But he said, "that once this gets going, the complaints are going to be
many.
"This (final decision) is beginning to look more like a foregone
conclusion from the very start," Levin said.
Resolutions opposed to the runway extension were passed last year by
Haverford commissioners, Delaware County Council and Upper Darby
Council. Millbourne and Norwood councils also sent letters to county
council. Several state legislators in the county have also opposed the
project.
Judy Rice, a spokeswoman for the coalition, said, "all the people that
are going to be impacted by this extension of Runway 17-35 are still
urging everyone within the hearing of our voices to contact our U.S.
senators and Congressman Curt Weldon to hear the voices of their
constituents."
"This very small improvement in (air) traffic delay hardly seems
justified to those of us who will see tremendous noise pollution,
extreme toxic air pollution and a general deterioration of our quality
of life," Rice said.
ŠThe Daily Times 2005
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By Chris Floyd
03/25/04 "Moscow
Times" - - Far from the hurly-burly in Florida, where the Bush
brothers and their shameless minions have sought to milk maximum
"political capital" from the ravaged body of a brain-dead woman, the
true moral values of these gilded hypocrites were on stark display last
week in a quiet corner of the Bushes' adopted homeland: Texas.
This week, U.S. President George W. Bush melodramatically cut short one
of his innumerable vacations and flew back to Washington to intervene in
the case of Terri Schiavo when a Florida court granted her husband's
request to cut off her life support after she had spent 15 years in a
vegetative state. But days before, even as the president was supporting
his brother, Florida governor Jeb Bush, and congressional Republicans in
"defending the culture of life" in the Schiavo case, doctors in Houston
were pulling the breathing tube from the throat of an ailing infant. The
boy suffocated within seconds, legally killed -- against the wishes of
his anguished mother -- in accordance with a draconian law signed as a
"cost-saving" measure by the state's former governor: George W. Bush.
There were no frenzied protests, no camera-friendly prayer vigils, no
preening politicians at Texas Children's Hospital when 5-month-old Sun
Hudson took his last breath. There was only his mother, Wanda, holding
him in her arms as he died, the Houston Chronicle reported. Sun suffered
from an extreme form of dwarfism, which is incurable and usually fatal.
Early on, doctors recommended cutting off the breathing tube that kept
his undersized lungs working. He was inert, they said, unresponsive --
essentially comatose.
Wanda Hudson disagreed. "I talked to him," she said. "He was conscious."
Moving, looking around, he responded to her. Although the odds were
long, she wanted to give him more time to develop, not give up on him
after just a few months. Wishful thinking, a despairing parent's denial?
Perhaps. But the law signed by Bush in 1999 took the decision out of her
hands and gave it to hospital bureaucrats, allowing them to shut down a
patient's life support -- even against the wishes of the patient's
family or guardian -- if the medical brass decide that treatment is "nonbeneficial,"
the Chronicle noted.
Indeed, why throw away good money pumping air down the gullet of some
defective infant, just to mollify his nobody of a mother? For, unlike
Schiavo -- a nice middle-class white woman, a political marketer's dream
-- Wanda Hudson was just another worthless black woman living in
poverty, unable to afford prenatal care. Who would waste a dime on trash
like that? It's much more beneficial to funnel that cash into the
coffers of your political patrons -- like George and Jeb, now wallowing
happily in the swamp of campaign grease they get from giant medical
corporations. In return, they push government policies designed to keep
Big Medicine's profits sky-high while gutting public obligations to
provide health care for the hoi polloi.
So the hospital invoked the Bush Law on Sun Hudson. Just as in Florida,
a local judge ruled that life-support systems must be removed, and the
patient allowed to die a natural death. But strangely enough, the Texas
judge was not reviled in the halls of Congress as a would-be murderer,
as was his counterpart in Florida -- even though the latter was carrying
out the wishes of Terri Schiavo's husband, her legal guardian, while the
Bush Law used state power to override a mother's choice. Nor was the
Texas judge subjected to death threats like the ones the Florida judge
received from Bush's "armies of compassion."
No, Sun's mother stood alone. Those compassionate armies and
congressional kibitzers failed to materialize on her behalf. President
Bush -- usually so eager to wade in a with a few scripted words of
pursed-lipped piety about "family values" and "defending life" -- kept
his big mouth shut. The hospital would not allow the media to see Sun or
interview Wanda Jackson -- again, against her wishes. "I wanted y'all to
see him for yourselves," she told the press after Sun's death. But so
what? When nobodies die, nobody cares.
Why the stark contrast between the two cases? Simple: There was no
political hay to be made from Sun Hudson's plight. Spotlighting his
situation might reflect badly on the Dear Leader -- and on the religious
extremists now banking millions in contributions from their slick
campaign to "save" Schiavo. For it turns out that the spearhead of
Bush's Christian army in Florida, the "Right to Life" organization,
actually helped Bush craft the 1999 law that took Sun Hudson's life, the
Chronicle reported. The family-bashing measure was drawn up in backroom
sessions between the Right-to-Lifers, Bush staffers and Big Medicine. It
seems the "culture of life" ends where power politics and corporate
money begin.
Bush doesn't care if Schiavo lives or dies. Her body -- like the bodies
of the 100,000 Iraqis he has killed, like the bodies of the American
soldiers being chewed up every day in his Babylonian conquest, like the
bodies of the poor and working people whom he is methodically and
remorselessly cutting off from medical care, financial protection
against catastrophic illness, and legal redress against corporate
predators -- is just a means to an end, the only end Bush cares about:
increasing the power and wealth of his own rapacious circle of
privileged elites.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, he will not do to serve this end.
He'll wage war on false pretenses, he'll pervert the democratic process,
he'll spit on the Constitution -- and he'll exploit the private
suffering of families facing hideous dilemmas of life and death. There
is no honor, no morality, no values in his "culture."

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