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Cleveland is seriously considering a $1.2 billion Lake Erie jetport built on 1,050 acres of landfill and protected by breakwaters, dikes and cofferdams. Although it would lie a mile offshore, a ten-lane causeway with provision for public transit would link it with the city's center, and feeder airlines would connect with cities as far away as Toronto...
Alas, new airports produce as much resistance as relief. Most people would rather have an ABM site in their backyard than the constant thunder and stench of a big jetport. Austin Tobin, executive director of the Port of New York Authority, has fought for a fourth New York jetport for almost ten years. "Can we balance the rights of the many against the rights of the few?" he asks. So far, minority rule has won the day, but now something must give...
PATCO is still not pacified. It claims it will keep the pressure on until the airlines move prime-time flights into off-hours, a new jetport is agreed upon by New York, and new equipment is promised by the Federal Government. The stall is sending the airlines into tailspins. It costs $10 a minute to keep a 707 jet in the air, and pilots by contract cannot fly more than 80 hours per month. If the slowdown continues, the carriers will run out of pilots and the passengers out of patience...
Rebecca West once observed that "the railroad stations are the cathedrals of America." She was referring to the architecture-and romance-of another era, and it seems unlikely that she would accord the same accolade to that waiting room of the mid-20th century, the nervous, noisy jetport. For travelers in a hurry, it is all too often a place for enforced contemplation, while airlines catch up with their weather-beaten schedules. Novelist Hailey gives airports his familiar Hotel treatment, and the result may permanently ground all his readers...
...policy conferences"--mock political extravaganzas spread across the first term of the first year--are the most unusual part of the school, says David Denoon (Harvard '66). Denoon took part in the simulated New Jersey State Senate battle, and when he found himself representing the area in which the jetport was to be built, he consulted engineers, airplane people and technicians of all sorts--and finally wrote a bill sticking the jetport on someone else's constituency. Thus he had saved his voters from low-flying planes, massive traffic and sonic booms--in short, performed a first-class public service...