Violent Airport !!!

[Jetranger]

A New Airport

well I sure hope they don't turn violent at all our New Add On' Airports

guess it would have to be a Simulator type Protest

WOW saw this on the news passin' it along

kinda interesting

Violent Airport : http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/french-anti-airport/1009516.html

[Fozzer]

There are very large groups of very angry and very dangerous people in the news all around the world at the moment.

All protesting violently about something or other!

Scary!

Paul.

[Jetranger]

Gessshhhhh !

Well All I know is that Got some great Scenery from down that way in my Flight Sim, really good scenery matter of fact from Venezeula

they do know how to make scenery alright !!

probably won't get much out that way for a while tho

Wheewww didn't know all this was happinin too on top of everything else


http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/22/world/americas/venezuela-socialism/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[Fozzer]

There's nothing more frightening than a very large group of people totally out of control!

It breeds more and more violence!

Human Beings...They love a fight amongst themselves for no good reason!

Paul.

[Bass]

Yes, and more and more are just searching for it!

[ftldave]

Human Beings...They love a fight amongst themselves for no good reason!

Well, there are many good reasons for people to disagree and protest about that airport project, have been for 40 years running. Opponents point out that it's going to enrich lots of corporate executives and shareholders at public expense, that it will destroy vast areas of farm land and introduce mass urbanization into a rural area, that it would be more cost effective to upgrade existing airports, and that the business projections and benefits of the new airport have been greatly exaggerated to get the deal done. Not to mention that local taxes will surely increase as time goes by, to support the infrastructure in that area. Noise and pollution are concerns, too, of course. Proponents say it will be good for business, will increase tourism for the area, boost prosperity, and allow the existing Nantes-Atlantique airport to be dedicated to freight.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is similar to a controversial project in own my hometown. A new downtown parking garage was proposed, land acquired, tenants evicted. Then the facts were revealed that existing parking garages downtown actually had low utilization, that the project's backers just wanted to make money on the deals, the construction, etc. The proponents had greatly exaggerated the need for and viability of another garage. The city would never have made any money from building another one. Opposition forces won. The parking garage was never built. But unfortunately, many businesses, some that had been around for a long time, had to close their doors.

[Hawkeye07]

Human Beings...They love a fight amongst themselves for no good reason!

Well, there are many good reasons for people to disagree and protest about that airport project, have been for 40 years running. Opponents point out that it's going to enrich lots of corporate executives and shareholders at public expense, that it will destroy vast areas of farm land and introduce mass urbanization into a rural area, that it would be more cost effective to upgrade existing airports, and that the business projections and benefits of the new airport have been greatly exaggerated to get the deal done. Not to mention that local taxes will surely increase as time goes by, to support the infrastructure in that area. Noise and pollution are concerns, too, of course. Proponents say it will be good for business, will increase tourism for the area, boost prosperity, and allow the existing Nantes-Atlantique airport to be dedicated to freight.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is similar to a controversial project in own my hometown. A new downtown parking garage was proposed, land acquired, tenants evicted. Then the facts were revealed that existing parking garages downtown actually had low utilization, that the project's backers just wanted to make money on the deals, the construction, etc. The proponents had greatly exaggerated the need for and viability of another garage. The city would never have made any money from building another one. Opposition forces won. The parking garage was never built. But unfortunately, many businesses, some that had been around for a long time, had to close their doors.

It sounds like downtown Minneapolis, MN and the new Vikings football stadium. The proposal to pay a large chunk of the bill was to pass a law to allow electronic pull tabs in area bars and restaurants. Oh the profits will come pouring in! Just you wait and see. Well the bill was passed and the electronic pull tabs has been a total fiasco. There haven't been nearly as many bars or restauranrts getting the pull tab computers and the cities share of the profits has been a joke. BUT the new stadium got approved in part because of the pull tab backers profit exaggerations. Now the city is trying to figure out how to pay for a new super expensive stadium for a LOSING football team.

Personally I would have told the Vikings if you want a new stadium let's see a winning season first.