{"id":693,"date":"2006-04-14T16:18:23","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T20:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=693"},"modified":"2006-04-15T01:31:38","modified_gmt":"2006-04-15T05:31:38","slug":"speaking-of-the-waterfront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/04\/14\/speaking-of-the-waterfront\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of the waterfront&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cameronair.com\/winter\/images\/airport_tcca.jpg\" \/>CommunityAIR, the group that helped stop the bridge to the Toronto Island Airport, is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.communityair.org\/Hot_News.htm\">still battling hard<\/a> to keep any kind of commercial airline out of the airport. From their\u00a0 media release yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bombardier&#8217;s Q400 large turboprop does not qualify for use at the Island Airport. This is the plane that Robert Deluce intends to use as the entire initial fleet for Porter Airlines, his new commercial carrier. Porter plans to utilize the Island Airport as its principal hub&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The Q400 is unable to meet this requirement and therefore should not be permitted for commercial use out of the airport. CommunityAIR wrote a letter to this effect on April 11, 2006 addressed to Lawrence Cannon, federal Minister of Transport, Michele McCarthy, Chair of the Toronto Port Authority and David Miller, Mayor of the City of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the Port Authority is intent on violating the Tripartite Agreement. The community expects the Minister of Transport and the City of Toronto to take swift and decisive steps to prohibit the use of the Q400 at the Island Airport in order to uphold the agreement and protect the safety of the many thousands who work, live and play on the waterfront&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Tripartite Agreement was originally struck in 1983, additional significant obstacles, such as the wind power turbine on the CNE grounds and numerous residential towers have sprung up in close proximity to the airport. The seriousness of the bird strike danger at the Island Airport has been further identified &#8212; the numerous large waterfront populations of gulls, cormorants, ducks, swans, and geese. As well, the deficiencies of the Island Airport&#8217;s runways, taxiways and safety zones have been further detailed.There is currently no commercial air traffic out of the Island Airport. It would be a serious dereliction of duty for the signatories to the Tripartite Agreement to allow high-volume commercial scheduled service to restart at the airport, particularly based on the Q400 aircraft. Instead the money-losing, substandard, unnecessary airport should be shut and the 200-acres converted into a spectacular public amenity that would help kick-start waterfront rejuvenation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CommunityAIR, the group that helped stop the bridge to the Toronto Island Airport, is still battling hard to keep any kind of commercial airline out of the airport. From their\u00a0 media release yesterday: Bombardier&#8217;s Q400 large turboprop does not qualify for use at the Island Airport. 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