Congressmen urge feds to revisit airspace plan
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The U.S. Department of Transportation has created a committee to address air space congestion in the New York metropolitan area.
Congressman Eliot Engel, D-Bronx, and other federal lawmakers from New Jersey and Connecticut on Thursday urged that the Federal Aviation Administration’s airspace redesign plan be deferred until the committee completes its study.
The airspace redesign plan selected by the FAA earlier this month would bring an average of 300 to 400 planes a day would travel over Rockland seven months of the year within a year.
Rockland County has filed suit to stop the project, which the FAA said is needed to cut flight delays by 20 percent in in a five-state area that includes New York and New Jersey.
Engel and fellow Congressman Scott Garrett, Christopher Shays and Rodney Frelinghuysen cited an amendment that they recently introduced to an FAA reauthorization bill. The bill, which passed unanimously in the House of Representatives, requires a General Accountability Office study of other options for the FAA’s airspace redesign plan.
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