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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Teterboro Airport
« on: February 07, 2005, 09:26:43 AM »
The following comments were forwarded to me for posting:
It's time our representatives be held accountable for our lives. Continuing
to trumpet the defeat of the Boeing Business Jet is like crowing about
banning assault weapons. Both are good things to stop. But when someone holds me
up it's going to be a handgun they kill me with, not an Uzi. The BBJ (Boeing Business Jet) maybe would have been 1% of all operations at Teterboro Airport. The jet that's going kill us will be one of the 99% still flying, likely bigger than the one that crashed last week.
It is time to get Senator/Governor Corzine's, Representative Rothman's, and
Senator Lautenberg's eyes on the prize. It is past time to move the corporate
jets at TEB to Morristown or Essex County (who don't want the jets, either).
The rich and famous will have to drive in their limos thirty minutes longer to
get to the airport. Better them riding longer now than hundreds riding in
the lines of limos that will be needed for the funerals when a Gulfstream
crashes into Hackensack's Medical Center, high-rise apartment buildings and
Hasbrouck Heights' homes.
The Instrument Landing System has been in violation of FAA environmental
regulations since it was opened. It should be closed now, which will stop many
corporate flights. If TEB were illegally dumping toxic waste into the
Hackensack River that put lives at risk I don't think the feds or the state would allow
dumping to continue. Why is the illegal ILS allowed to put our lives at risk
hundreds of times a day?
I am also weary of the letters to the editor saying "You moved near Teterboro
knowing it was an airport." When my parents moved here in 1956, TEB was a
GENERAL AVIATION Airport, not an International airport and brother to LaGuardia,
Newark and JFK. There were no corporate jets in 1956. The "You moved near
Teterboro knowing it was an airport" argument is like saying "You moved near
the Ridgefield Power Plant knowing it generated electricity" after the coal/oil
generator was replaced by a nuclear reactor in violation of environmental
regulations and disregarding the safety of the millions living so close to the
plant. I'll agree to Teterboro staying open if it again becomes the Teterboro
Airport my parents knew.
We all need to call our Congressperson and Senators offices and get the names
of their transportation aides, their e-mails and phone numbers. We need
specific contacts we can pin down (e.g., Robert Helland, an aide to now Senator
Corzine's office, who uncovered the actually number of yearly operations during
Corzine's campaign). It's time Congressperson and Senators get daily e-mails
(along with every media contact we have) naming them as "non-doers." What's
more "The Record" better get a clear idea that we're not kidding and their "TEB
can be fixed" attitude is not being "a friend to the people it serves."
We must light a fire under these people and keep it burning if we don't want
to die by fire.
Dick Bruno
Hackensack
It's time our representatives be held accountable for our lives. Continuing
to trumpet the defeat of the Boeing Business Jet is like crowing about
banning assault weapons. Both are good things to stop. But when someone holds me
up it's going to be a handgun they kill me with, not an Uzi. The BBJ (Boeing Business Jet) maybe would have been 1% of all operations at Teterboro Airport. The jet that's going kill us will be one of the 99% still flying, likely bigger than the one that crashed last week.
It is time to get Senator/Governor Corzine's, Representative Rothman's, and
Senator Lautenberg's eyes on the prize. It is past time to move the corporate
jets at TEB to Morristown or Essex County (who don't want the jets, either).
The rich and famous will have to drive in their limos thirty minutes longer to
get to the airport. Better them riding longer now than hundreds riding in
the lines of limos that will be needed for the funerals when a Gulfstream
crashes into Hackensack's Medical Center, high-rise apartment buildings and
Hasbrouck Heights' homes.
The Instrument Landing System has been in violation of FAA environmental
regulations since it was opened. It should be closed now, which will stop many
corporate flights. If TEB were illegally dumping toxic waste into the
Hackensack River that put lives at risk I don't think the feds or the state would allow
dumping to continue. Why is the illegal ILS allowed to put our lives at risk
hundreds of times a day?
I am also weary of the letters to the editor saying "You moved near Teterboro
knowing it was an airport." When my parents moved here in 1956, TEB was a
GENERAL AVIATION Airport, not an International airport and brother to LaGuardia,
Newark and JFK. There were no corporate jets in 1956. The "You moved near
Teterboro knowing it was an airport" argument is like saying "You moved near
the Ridgefield Power Plant knowing it generated electricity" after the coal/oil
generator was replaced by a nuclear reactor in violation of environmental
regulations and disregarding the safety of the millions living so close to the
plant. I'll agree to Teterboro staying open if it again becomes the Teterboro
Airport my parents knew.
We all need to call our Congressperson and Senators offices and get the names
of their transportation aides, their e-mails and phone numbers. We need
specific contacts we can pin down (e.g., Robert Helland, an aide to now Senator
Corzine's office, who uncovered the actually number of yearly operations during
Corzine's campaign). It's time Congressperson and Senators get daily e-mails
(along with every media contact we have) naming them as "non-doers." What's
more "The Record" better get a clear idea that we're not kidding and their "TEB
can be fixed" attitude is not being "a friend to the people it serves."
We must light a fire under these people and keep it burning if we don't want
to die by fire.
Dick Bruno
Hackensack