Wed, Jun 04, 2003
In late
January 2003, NBAA tells us that they provided substantial
comments to an FAA Airspace Docket in response to a
proposal to construct a 2,000-foot tower in Bayonne, NJ. NBAA, and
other concerned parties, argued that the height of the tower
coupled with its proposed location in the middle of the busiest
terminal airspace in the world would create conditions not
conducive to the safe and efficient use of airspace.
However, the Metropolitan Television Alliance recently asked the
FAA to put the controversial Bayonne, NJ project on hold, because
they have completed an agreement with the leaseholder and developer
of the proposed 1,776-foot Freedom Tower planned for the former
site of the World Trade Center in New York.
The new agreement would return New York
broadcasters to the site they occupied before September 11, 2001.
New York Governor George Pataki has advocated a construction
schedule that would have the cornerstone for Freedom Tower laid in
August 2004, and the target date for completion currently is
2008.
In a January 30 letter to the FAA, NBAA President Jack Olcott
declared, “NBAA adamantly objects to the construction of the
proposed 2,000-foot tower at Bayonne, NJ. The enormous height of
the tower, which exceeds the allowable criteria of FAR Part 77,
coupled with its proposed location in the middle of the busiest
terminal airspace in the world, would unquestionably create
conditions not conducive to the safe and efficient use of
airspace.”
Association officials are not only concerned about the adverse
impact a Bayonne tower would have on visual approaches to Runway 29
at Newark (EWR), but they believe that compromising approaches into
EWR will have a “negative domino effect” on operations
at Teterboro (TEB).
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