DELAY TACTICS VS. AIRPORT THREATEN SAFETY.Byline: Joyce Streator THE summit that will be held tonight by state Sen. Adam Schiff
Adam B. Schiff (born June 20 1960) is an American politician. He first served in the California State Senate. , D-Pasadena, to help the Airport Authority reach a settlement with the city of Burbank on construction of a new airport terminal is encouraging and timely. The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority has been calling for Burbank to return to the bargaining table since October, but the city has not agreed to meet. The stalemate stale·mate n. 1. A situation in which further action is blocked; a deadlock. 2. A drawing position in chess in which the king, although not in check, can move only into check and no other piece can move. tr.v. and the city's lawsuits continue. Now that the Airport Authority has launched a Part 161 study to seek the restrictions on air carrier operations that Burbank is demanding, the city should be willing to cease holding the terminal hostage. Burbank officials have instead said that seeking caps and curfews through every possible administrative channel is not enough. City Council members have acknowledged that under federal law the Airport Authority does not have the power to simply impose these restrictions. But they nevertheless say they will continue to attempt to block the project until they get what they want out of the federal government. That could be a long time. Some Burbank officials have said they don't care
"Don't Care" is a 1994 (see 1994 in music) single by American death metal band Obituary. if it would take decades. Do we really have that much time? Just a month ago, a business jet made a crash landing at the Van Nuys Airport Van Nuys Airport (IATA: VNY, ICAO: KVNY, FAA LID: VNY) is a public airport located in Van Nuys, California in the San Fernando Valley, within the Los Angeles city limits. , veered off the runway and crashed into several parked airplanes. Thankfully, no one was seriously hurt. That same Gulfstream II aircraft has made many landings and takeoffs at the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport over the years. But at our airport, such a crash landing could have been much more serious. The terminal at the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport is as close as 313 feet from the center of the active runways, more than 400 feet too close to meet FAA safety standards Safety standards are standards designed to ensure the safety of products, activities or processes, etc. They may be advisory or compulsory and are normally laid down by an advisory or regulatory body that may be either voluntary or statutory. . That is the primary reason behind the airport modernization plan to build a new 19-gate facility farther from the runways. We think the traveling public should be afforded the level of safety that the FAA intends for them to have. Our airport staff plotted the path of the careening The careening of a sailing vessel is laying her up on a calm beach at high tide in order to expose one side or another of the ship's hull for maintenance below the water line when the tide goes out. Gulfstream on a map of our much-smaller airport and discovered that the jet could have ended up in the parking lot behind our terminal building. You only get so many warnings. Certainly there is good reason to reach a settlement sooner, rather than later. I applaud Schiff's efforts to get things moving by bringing state transportation officials and mediation experts to the summit this tonight at the Gene Autry Museum in Griffith Park Griffith Park is a large public park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains. It is situated in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The park covers 4,210 acres (17 km²) of land, making it one of the largest urban parks in North America. . I am very encouraged also by the efforts of Rep. Jim Rogan, R-Pasadena, who has convinced Tennessee Congressman John Duncan John Duncan may refer to:
The Airport Authority has indicated that it will agree to any restrictions that result in construction of the 19-gate terminal that we have proposed, as long as they don't violate the law or drive the airlines away. We were not appointed to the commission in order to run the airport out of business, and we know no one, certainly not the Burbank City Council, wants that to happen. The Airport Authority understands that Burbank is concerned about the impacts of airport operations. The Airport Commission has done much to reduce those impacts and is continuing to study and implement alternatives to reduce noise. And we've been very successful, cutting noise impacts by 90 percent since the airport was publicly acquired in 1978. We are grateful for the opportunity to demonstrate to Schiff and other state officials our continuing willingness to address the problem of airport noise and to reach an agreement now with the city of Burbank. I wish I could say I was optimistic op·ti·mist n. 1. One who usually expects a favorable outcome. 2. A believer in philosophical optimism. op that Burbank will resume negotiating with us, but I cannot in light of recent news accounts. These stories told of a memo by Burbank's public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most consultants outlining a campaign to undermine the Airport Authority's credibility. This campaign of issuing statements and running newspaper advertisements would gain momentum, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the reports, and culminate culminate, in astronomy, the maximum height in the sky reached by a celestial body on a given day. At the culminate the body is crossing the observer's celestial meridian and is said to be in upper transit. just before the Glendale city election. That doesn't seem to indicate any desire at all to reach a settlement. It is my sincere hope that the city of Burbank doesn't use the opportunity provided by Schiff's summit to further this public relations gambit (language) Gambit - A variant of Scheme R3.99 supporting the future construct of Multilisp by Marc Feeley <feeley@iro.umontreal.ca>. Implementation includes optimising compilers for Macintosh (with Toolbox and built-in editor) and Motorola 680x0 Unix systems and HP300, BBN . Both sides should view this event as an opportunity to move toward a solution that provides the community with a safer, quieter airport now - not decades from now. AIRPORT SUMMIT 6:30 to 9 p.m. Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Griffith Park. Parking and admission are free. CAPTION(S): box Box: Airport summit (see text) |
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