the airport overhaul is a step in the right direction. bring in the subway it isn't that far away. you can do it.
i hope the marine air terminal is landmarked!!!
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It will cost three times as much as predicted. it will take three times as long as estimated to complete. And New York taxpayers will end up up footing most of the cost.
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Please, leave LGA alone! Don't turn it into a behemoth the way the DC airport blew up into Reagan! Mr VP, did you look out of your car window or was the tinted glass too dark? The highways between JFK , LGA and Newark and the City - now that is embarrassing. Oh and let's give free carts and Internet -- just don't even think about touching the Marine Air Terminal!
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Here in NE Queens, airplane noise from LaGuardia is overwhelming, from before 6 am to well after midnight most days, with planes booming overhead every 1-3 minutes, one after another, after another. Don't tell me I shouldn't have bought a house near an airport -- this was NOT a problem when I bought 18 years ago, and only started within the last few years. We do not need a modernized airport. We need to replace short-haul flights of less than 600 miles with high-speed rail. We do not need a modernized airport, we need subways and commuter railroads that work. Put OUR tax money where a huge majority of New Yorkers want it, Mr. Cuomo. Stop being a politician, and become a leader, if you're capable of that. No money for LaGuardia airport!
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The problem is that, 1-2 years ago or so, they recalibrated the flight paths. Instead of having planes come in from different directions, it's more efficient to have them come down along the same route. (and ditto for takeoffs, which are what you're hearing at 6am)
Unfortunately, you must be located under that chosen flight path. It's a really unfair way of making life intolerable for people in one area, without making much of a difference for others who were already used to the (much less frequent) noise.
See www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/nyregion/planes-roar-from-above-creates-a-rum....
Unfortunately, you must be located under that chosen flight path. It's a really unfair way of making life intolerable for people in one area, without making much of a difference for others who were already used to the (much less frequent) noise.
See www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/nyregion/planes-roar-from-above-creates-a-rum....
As I watch the evolution of the human race into a bunch of teen-aged droids wallowing in techie gadgets and devoid of any knowledge or appreciation of history, I respectfully suggest to those in authority that to me and a few others like me who are approaching eternity the name La Guardia has a very special meaning. Aside from the reading of the Sunday comics over the radio, he was an honest, decent man who cleaned up a crime-hobbled city. The new La Guardia field was where I rode my bicycle to watch DC-3s land and take off, and where I left for Korea while my mother stood by weeping. Keep the name.
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As a commercial pilot, two of the most challenging airports in the country are La Guardia and Washington National. What they really need, to make these safer, are longer runways. As usual, I see no money dedicated to lengthening the runways.
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the airports are used primarily by well off people who can board a jet at anytime. IF their are too many lines for foreigners coming in to the airport why not just use it for domestic flights? that money would be better spent on affordable housing in all five boroughs of NYC.
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Not true at all, you think JFK and other airports are filled with one percenters? What world do you live in?
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Coincidentally, yesterday late morning I was on a Delta flight that was number 25 waiting on the tarmac to take off from LaGuardia. Why the hold up? VP Biden was leaving! We saw police, an ambulance and dark vans driving on the access road and we wondered what was going on. Finally the pilot explained that the VP was here ("why they bring the VIPs into LGA I'll never know!"). So even the man who called it a third world country airport has to use it sometimes!
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The limiting factor at LGA is that it has 2 intersecting runways, which, btw, are on the short side. Spiffying up the terminals and transit cnxns will mean that more people will be able to fume at even longer delays, but in nicer surroundings. Don't put a nickel into the cosmetics of this place until its capacity is upgraded by adding and lengthening the runways.
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You would have thought this would be a priority, I've heard many pilots say they hate flying into LaGuardia for that very reason. Cumo though knows better than the rest of nice and more importantly the pilots apparantly. LGA doesn't need fancy restaurants and boutiques it needs longer runways. THis is not a priority for the Gov though.
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This might energize the politicians but with many of the region's infrastructure projects, it remains to be seen if this will be done within budget and on-time, unlike so many of the current projects.
The only things that seems to be getting priority are bike lanes which are underused by the largely lawless biking community. That travel option is not convenient, cheap or time effective but is consistently pushed by the heads in Manhattan and areas of Brooklyn.
When we get some politicians that prioritize subways, buses and the free flow of traffic around the city (Manhattan included) instead of rewarding the little fiefdom neighborhoods and vocal constituencies, we might just have a chance to be able to grow population and business without totally killing the city.
Right now, I'm thinking that's not possible with the current political setup, but who knows? I'd like to be proved wrong and NYC has weathered lots of crises before, usually in spite of the odds and difficulties.
The only things that seems to be getting priority are bike lanes which are underused by the largely lawless biking community. That travel option is not convenient, cheap or time effective but is consistently pushed by the heads in Manhattan and areas of Brooklyn.
When we get some politicians that prioritize subways, buses and the free flow of traffic around the city (Manhattan included) instead of rewarding the little fiefdom neighborhoods and vocal constituencies, we might just have a chance to be able to grow population and business without totally killing the city.
Right now, I'm thinking that's not possible with the current political setup, but who knows? I'd like to be proved wrong and NYC has weathered lots of crises before, usually in spite of the odds and difficulties.
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As a 64-year-old member of what you term the "largely lawless biking community," I'd like to point out that bike lanes are among the least expensive, yet most responsive, traffic measures a city can take. Unfortunately, Uptown Manhattan has no protected or segregated lanes at all, despite the breadth of Amsterdam Avenue (which would be a perfect north/south route).
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