CITY SCUTTLES LAX RUNWAY EXTENSION.Byline: Steven J. Gorman Daily News Staff Writer The city Airports Department announced Wednesday it has scrapped the idea of extending Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). “KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX runways two miles into Santa Monica Bay Santa Monica Bay is an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern California, United States. Its boundaries are slightly ambiguous, but it is generally considered to be the part of the Pacific within an imaginary line drawn between Point Dume , deciding such an expansion would take too long to complete. The proposal had come under fire from environmentalists who said it would impair the quality of coastal waters and destroy dunes between the airport and the bay that provide habitat for the endangered El Segundo blue butterfly El Segundo blue butterfly (Euphilotes battoides allyni) is a butterfly local to a small dune ecosystem in Southern California, close to the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). It is a federally designated endangered species. . But airport officials said a bayward expansion of LAX was ruled out of the master plan they will present to the public next month for more practical reasons. ``The technical team conducting the LAX Master Plan has carefully examined the ocean concept, and has determined that proposing a runway in the ocean is not feasible or practical at this time,'' Airports Department executive director John Driscoll John Edmund Driscoll (b. June 27, 1981 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia) is an American television and soap opera actor. Early Life Driscoll grew up in Virginia. He went to Woodbridge Senior High School in Woodbridge, Va and graduated in 1999. said in a statement. ``It would take us more than ten years to implement such a runway. That's too long,'' he said. The number of air travelers flying into and out of LAX is likely to grow at an average rate of 3.5 percent a year over the next two decades, boosting passengers numbers from 51 million in 1994 to 98 million by 2015, airport forecasts show. The number of takeoffs and landings at LAX is expected to climb from 690,000 in 1994 to just more than 1 million in 2015, those studies found. Four alternative scenarios for an airport expansion will be unveiled with the master plan next month, but forgoing the bay option will limit the airport's ability to handle long-term growth in demand for international air transport, said Daniel Garcia, president of the Board of Airport Commissioners and director of the master plan team. ``We are facing a crisis in airport capacity for Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , and if we don't deal with it, we will see the jobs that we owe our next generation moving to Colorado, Texas and Illinois,'' he said in a statement. State Sen. Tom Hayden Thomas Emmett "Tom" Hayden (born December 11, 1939) is an American social and political activist and politician, most famous for his involvement in the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. , D-Los Angeles, who vowed to fight a bayward runway extension, hailed the city's decision as a ``victory for the protection of Santa Monica Bay.'' But he cautioned that alternative expansion plans could be just as onerous to residents of communities around the airport who face the potential for increased traffic congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. , noise and air pollution. ``The issue of excessive growth has now shifted to the land,'' Hayden said. ``It's no more acceptable to overrun 1. overrun - A frequent consequence of data arriving faster than it can be consumed, especially in serial line communications. For example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per millisecond, so if a silo can hold only two characters and the machine takes the streets with traffic and air pollution than it is to build a runway into the bay.'' ``They thought they were just facing butterflies,'' Hayden said. ``Wait till they see homeowners associations.'' |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion