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DEL.ICIO.USWhere should second airport be built?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Federal officials Tuesday planted the seeds for a second commercial airport in metro Atlanta, and in doing so, launched what will likely be a long-running debate about where it should be located.
“Now is the time for Atlanta to consider having multiple commercial airports,” U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters told reporters at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport as she announced a $1 million grant to study capacity expansion in Atlanta.
Peters joined Federal Aviation Administration chief Marion Blakey, who presented the results of a study that found major U.S. cities must expand their airports or build new ones in the next 20 years to keep pace with an ever-increasing demand for air travel. Blakey said the nation might need to build up to four more major commercial airports during the next three decades.
“Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas and San Diego are among the likely candidates,” Blakey wrote in the preface of the FAA report, “Capacity Needs in the National Airspace System.”
Hartsfield-Jackson currently is the world’s busiest airport, with about 86 million passengers a year — but one reason it is so busy is that, unlike in some other major metro areas, it is the lone commercial airport for the region.
Read the full story by AJC reporter Jim Tharpe
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By jc
May 16, 2007 5:57 PM | Link to this
How about in Iraq…
By Cindy
May 16, 2007 6:09 PM | Link to this
It should be built somewhere between North and Northeast Atlanta to accommodate both Gwinnetians and North Fultonians. But no doubt, the rich in Fulton will get first dibs and I’m sure Alpharetians are lobbying with their checkbooks to get it built there. Still it’s better than us at this end of ATL having to drive South ATL an hour plus away.
By HL
May 16, 2007 9:33 PM | Link to this
Cherokee County
By carter
May 17, 2007 12:56 AM | Link to this
Somewhere off 400 15 to 20 miles outside 285 would keep traffic patters separate.
By Mata Thomas
May 17, 2007 1:41 AM | Link to this
I’m just waiting for the “not-in-my-town” backlash from those crowded Northern areas. What about putting it at the end of GA 400? Eh, nevermind, traffic on 400 would be even more RIDIUCLOUS!