Rockland’s battle with the FAA over flight-plan goes to court in May
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A controversial plan to reroute air traffic over the Northeast, including sending hundreds of planes a day over Rockland, will be heard in federal court in May.
Rockland County and 11 governments and organizations from Delaware to Connecticut are suing to prevent the Federal Aviation Administration from fully implementing its New York-New Jersey-Philadelphia Metropolitan Area Airspace Redesign project.
The critics claim the FAA did not properly take noise, air pollution and efficiency into account.
Rockland is serving as lead petitioner in the case, which will be heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Oral testimony starts May 11.
It could take months for the court to issue its decision, which then could be followed by appeals.
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on Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 at 12:44 pm by Khurram Saeed.
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They are all wasting their and your money! The airspace does not belon gto any communities on the ground and the FAA will win. If you do not want aircraft noise, don’t move to a area as dense as NYC and within 60 miles of a dozen busy airports, 3 of them major airports. Move out West or something, get over it!
LoOk at thAT. Another anonymous blogger planted on a newspaper bulletin board by FAA middle-management toads. How boring.
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