New Haven Independent

Posted by: anon | November 12, 2008 10:05 AM

Sounds good to me. Ultimately, $5 million is nothing if it helps reduce all the auto traffic and pollution from people who currently have to drive from FFLD and NH counties up to Bradley.

The airport has to be expanded immediately -- the recession doesn't really matter, since there'd be a huge market here for expanded service even if flights nationally got cut by 50%.

Posted by: Tweedsupporter | November 12, 2008 4:56 PM

Mr Larson seems to be doing a great job. Keep up the good work and get Continental back here

Posted by: Steven Ross | November 13, 2008 7:44 AM

We have not been told the truth. Moving Dodge Avenue was going to solve all the safety issues. Now another $6 million is needed to cut trees down. As they are on private property it could take years. I guess next year we'll be told the runway needs to be lengthened at a cost of $???million.

If Continental or Delta or Jet Blue were doing some of the investing it would convince me the airport was viable.

Posted by: concerned | November 13, 2008 9:03 AM

It is unreasonable or irrational to merely assume more traffic will come to the airport with the proposed expansion at this time of economic recession. At this point in the planning process the investment is merely based on hope and wishful thinking that more airlines or flights will come to tweed or be produced by the expansion. Logic based on economic theory and absence of proposals by airlines tells us it may be a bad investment of taxpayer dollars.

Posted by: nutmeg | November 13, 2008 9:09 AM

trees always have to be cut near airports. no matter how many times you tell them to stop growing, they just don't listen. if you remember, an american airlines flight clipped some trees near bradley back in 1995. show those trees who's boss!

Posted by: LTMIKE | November 13, 2008 4:17 PM

I live in the East Shore section and I am for expanding the airport. If we had more carriers and more destinations, the community would be so much better served. We would need an expanded runway (which costs) and carriers coming in would have to show their commitment by sharing in the expansion costs. This, in my opinion, would make it less likely that the needed work gets completed and airlines decide to stop service from Tweed, leaving the airport to struggle (and the city and state left having to provide funding). Longer distant destinations, such as Miami, Orlando, Cinncy, Atlanta, DC, and Chicago as well as Philly would make Tweed much more an option for area travellers (look at White Plains which is emerging). As it stands, having to connect in Philly and 1 airline choice really makes it a tough sell. I would love to see the airport flourish, but in reality, I just don't see it happening.

Posted by: Steve | November 13, 2008 8:49 PM

If any member of the New Haven Delegation supports this waste of taxpayers' money at this critical juncture in our economy, they should be put on the next plane out of town.

Don't think for a minute that if John DeStefano owned an airline it would be just like everthing else he does, fly "Oneway Only"

Posted by: The Count | November 20, 2008 12:58 PM

It amuses me how, for all her campaign talk of "change," April Capone Almon is content to operate in the same mode as her predecessor, "Kim Joe-Ill" Maturo.
I thought this was supposed to be an "inclusive" regime, open to all ideas and opinions.
And, while Mayor Almon is quick to tout the results of the latest survey as "evidence" of East Haveners satisfaction with her job performance, the same survey doesn't even give Tweed its own category as a concern of East Haven residents.
Sure, April has shown "savings" the town has made.
But how much can you save?
You still have to look for new sources of revenue.
April, do yourself a favor: Talk to fellow Democrat Henry Luzzi.