Word: jetports
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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...
Proposals for Chicago's badly needed third jetport include a floating airport constructed of aluminum modules and reached by helibus and Hovercraft. Architect Stanley Tigerman estimates it would cost a relatively modest $500 million. Closer to approval, however, is a $1 billion dike-protected jetport 35 ft. to 55 ft. below the water level of Lake Michigan and connected to the Loop by six miles of causeway, tunnel and bridge. Says Chicago's Aviation Commissioner William Downes Jr.: "The main objection comes from the save-our-lakefront fraternity who don't realize that an airport six miles...
Concrete Island. The most promising solution to New Orleans' problems is a proposed $350 million supersonic jetport to be built above the shallow waters of Lake Pontchartrain on concrete pilings. One drawback is that its flight patterns would overlap those of the present lakefront jetport. Existing flight patterns also crowd New York planners. Engineer James J. Currey Sr. suggests rearranging them to make room for a new pile-supported jetport in the shallows behind Sandy Hook. Space Planner Lawrence Lerner would create new landing space by (in effect) moving a greatly enlarged J.F.K. Airport onto a nine-mile-long...
Lerner estimates that more than two-thirds of the $6 billion needed for his offshore jetport could be raised by the sale and development of the old J.F.K. Airport on Jamaica Bay. Chicago and New Orleans may finance theirs by charging passenger-use fees similar to those collected by many European airports. Any offshore airport, however, needs site and feasibility studies before construction can begin, and the task of draining or filling the enormous areas required is herculean. The proposed Lake Erie jetport would take an estimated ten years to complete, the New Orleans jetport nine, and even Chicago...
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...