Chuck
Senior Member
I'm still not buying the "busy commercial airport" comment. Let's say that Porter ultimately flies 15 round trip flights to and from Ottawa, Montreal, and other random destinations per day. That's 90 flights a day (Pearson averages over 1100). Porter currently flies from about 6:30 am to 11:00 pm. That's *gasp* one Porter flight every 11 minutes. Hardly one plane every 20-30 seconds.
I challenge the city (knowing it will fail) to turn the waterfront into something so beautiful and so successful that it can finally prove that something better can and WILL be built in the airport's place. We all know that if history repeats itself, closing the Island airport would result in a massive field of overgrown weeds for the next 30 years, at which point the city sells the land to a developer in turn for another 10 hideous condos to add to the list.
In my opinion, the Island Airport represents the only piece of waterfront property that is on track to being used to its full potential.
I challenge the city (knowing it will fail) to turn the waterfront into something so beautiful and so successful that it can finally prove that something better can and WILL be built in the airport's place. We all know that if history repeats itself, closing the Island airport would result in a massive field of overgrown weeds for the next 30 years, at which point the city sells the land to a developer in turn for another 10 hideous condos to add to the list.
In my opinion, the Island Airport represents the only piece of waterfront property that is on track to being used to its full potential.