Will airport plan fly?

bob stokes

So where might U.S. Rep. Steve LaTourette stand on the proposed expansion of the Richmond Heights-based Cuyahoga County Airport into Willoughby Hills in Lake County?
You know, can LaTourette, R-Bainbridge Township, wing it as the presumptive key federal legislator between Cuyahoga and the final decision of the Federal Aviation Administration?
Under the plan, Cuyahoga would life-flight itself into Willoughby Hills as the main course of a 900-foot runway extension and realigned Richmond and Bishop roads.
But the proposal would “not require the acquisition of any residential properties” in Willoughby Hills.
Total 16-year project cost estimates: $63.93 million at a Cuyahoga Airport handling about 185 flights daily, or seven flights an hour, in a surrounding 10-mile noise zone of towns.
The project would be mainly $56.49 million FAA funded, including $32 million for runway and parallel taxiway extension.
“In most cases,” planners add, “the actual project costs and corresponding budget amounts will be greater.”
The main airport bosses are Cuyahoga County Commissioners Jimmy Dimora, Tim Hagan and Peter Lawson Jones, Democrats all.
They’re concerned about 3,000 airport jobs, $150 million annual payroll, economic impact, noise and flights.
Commissioners might be helmeted, goggled and flight-pathed toward crossing the county border into destined Willoughby Hills, wherein Cuyahoga has no jurisdiction.
The Air Show would be even as the three cities all remain legislatively in the seven-county LaTourette congressional district of the federal government.
Interested parties gathered at the latest public hearing which Cuyahoga called last week at the appropriately named Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium at the Cleveland Public Library.
Ground troops did show up from Willoughby Hills and from Cuyahoga’s Richmond Heights and Highland Heights.
In a civil way, the towns opposed the County Airport expanding or annexing its way into Willoughby Hills or anymore into either of the two Cuyahoga cities.
The county Development Department also got pre-hearing e-mails opposing any expansion or airport noise.

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12 Responses to “Will airport plan fly?”

  1. Tiffany says on May 7th, 2008 at 4:08 am :

    If you get screened in Canada and stop in an American airport, you need to get screened again (at great inconvenience and cost to the airlines/airports), despite the exact same machines and basic procedures being used. No on knows how this enhances air security. My theory is that the Americans don’t believe you’ve had a proper flying experience until you’ve been treated inhumanely as a criminal.

  2. Emmaline says on May 7th, 2008 at 4:58 am :

    Does govt protect ANY of our rights anymore? If not, who needs it?

  3. Regana says on May 7th, 2008 at 5:49 am :

    Unfortunately, the article doesn’t say much about the study’s methodology. Maybe they had a clever way to say something meaningful about effectiveness; maybe they didn’t. I just tried to find the paper online and couldn’t. Can anyone else find it?

  4. Jamaar says on May 7th, 2008 at 6:39 am :

    That’s WAY to smart for the TSA.

  5. Levi says on May 7th, 2008 at 7:30 am :

    I am annoyed to the point where I don’t travel unless I absolutely have to.I still don’t understand what security risk a 200ml bottle of water poses that two 100ml bottles does not.

  6. Regan says on May 7th, 2008 at 8:21 am :

    Come on.

  7. Phineas says on May 7th, 2008 at 9:11 am :

    YA RLY!

  8. Tommie says on May 7th, 2008 at 10:02 am :

    Airport Security is firstly to remind us about the terrorists and to keep some fear in our subconscious at all times. And secondly so secuirty company can auction off the goods and make a nice little profit.

  9. Brayden says on May 7th, 2008 at 10:52 am :

    Maybe, but security makes it MUCH harder. If someone could just bring handguns on a plane, imagine the chaos. Many of those stupid suicidal kids that shoot up malls, would now go on planes and get even more victims. It would be a cakewalk for terrorists to just bring hand grenades and blow open a plane.They could more easily get into the cockpit. Imagine the chaos if 20 of our planes were hijacked in one day and flown into all our national monuments. I’ll take going through security any day, over that.

  10. Sophy says on May 7th, 2008 at 11:43 am :

    If I hire a beechcraft and pilot for the day, I don’t have to mess with security. What’s stopping airlines from doing the same?

  11. Ashley says on May 7th, 2008 at 12:33 pm :

    I agree. However, 9/11 was different. People were not expecting a hijacking and didn’t really know what to do. They though that the hijackers would simply land the plane and make demands and then let them go. They had no idea that they were going to crash the planes. Had they known, they probably would have fought back (well, the flight in Penn. did when they found out).If someone in a plane were to pull out some type of weapon today, they would immediately be swamped by able-bodied men on the plane. And, you can bet that the pilots wouldn’t open that cockpit for a million dollars.