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  • 2019-02-10 22:22

    What’s Not To Like? HB1683

    So I was back in Olympia last Thursday, this time at the House Transportation Committee to comment on HB1683, the companion to SB5370 which we talked about last time. TVW Video House Transportation Committee Feb 7 3:30PM (HB1683 begins @ 43:00) I made my feeble comments along with Des Moines City Councilor Traci Buxton and
  • 2019-02-07 15:30

    House Transportation Committee Meeting on HB1683

    Come to Olympia and support Tina Orwall’s bill to site a second airport. You can always keep updated on the progress of any bill here: HB1683
  • 2019-02-06 12:18

    Second Airport: Arguing about capacity won’t work

    I got several objections to my last post on SB5370 and specifically my public comment at the Senate Transportation Committee Hearing: Go to 57:00 But at the risk of sounding demagogic, I have to remind readers that our job is to tell the truth. And the truth is that siting a second airport will have
  • 2019-02-05 13:37

    Our Co-dependent Love Affair SB5370

    TVW Video (Discussion & Comments 40:00) Have you ever been in a relationship that you knew was bad for you? And not just you, I mean for both of you? But for any number of reasons, you just keep slugging it out, year after year. You (or they) keep telling yourself all the reasons it’s
  • 2019-01-24 12:20

    SB 5370 (Siting a second regional airport)

    A bill, co-sponsored by State Senator Karen Keiser, to site a second regional airport as an alternative to Sea-Tac International Airport. Follow the link to get e-mail notifications and provide your support. SB 5370 Original Bill
  • 2018-11-29 19:55

    *Why There Is No Second Airport In Site

    I admit to a bit of Schadenfreüde whenever I attend a public forum of electeds where the potential siting of a second airport is to be discussed. Because I know I’ll be witnessing my electeds feeling frustrated, patronised and condescended to. Which is how I feel a hundred or so times a year when I
  • 1980-04-09 00:00

    Seattle Times 1980-04-09 pg107 Eastside Airport Proposal in Carnation

    + G 4 The Seattle Times Wednesday, April 9, 1980 Proposal for airport on Eastside pops up again by Charles Brown Times suburban reporter EAST KING COUNTY - After more than a year o[ dormancy, the specter of a new small-craft airport somewhere on the East- side has surfaced again. Revived by the Federal Avi- ation Administration, the airport proposal is being looked at by the state Department of Transporta- tion's aeronautics division, county planners and Port of Seattle officials. A Washington Airport Systems Plan has determined a need for eight new general-aviation air- ports in the Puget Sound region by the year 2000. And from the state's point of view, one of those airports is need- ed on the Eastside to fill a de- mand for aviation facilities, caused in part by closure of the Bellevue Airfield and encroach· ment on other regional airports. William H. Hamilton, assistant secretary for state aeronautics, emphasized that a new airport on the Eastside is still in the proposal stage. · "Nothing is concrete yet," he said. "We are merely talking in concepts at this point." He also acknowledged that'the airport idea has received an un- friendly reception by some East- side residents, who "do not want to see an airport in their backyards." Hamilton and representatives from the F.A.A., county and Pmt have fonned a task force to deter- mine how the airport could be im· plememed and financed, and where it ultimately shou!d be located. Out of an area which reaches…
  • 1980-04-09 00:00

    Seattle Times – Eastside Airport Proposal in Carnation, April 9, 1980

    “Nobody WANTS an airport in his backyard,” said Mayor Lorraine Hine of Des Moines. “But in South King Couniy we’ve always lived in the shadow of airports and planes and there seem to be more planes all the time.” Mayor Hine said the smaller general-aviation planes are be-coming a real hazard competing for air space