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Originally Posted by stockjock
A floating airport isn't going to happen here.
That is all.
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I disagree. Maybe not anytime soon, but if we are 10-15 years in the future and the airport has reached a critical capacity shortage to where the public is demanding something be done and there are no other alternatives something will have to give and alternative ideas will be the only lifelines the crappy do-nothing politicans will have to cling to. This will be because these jackasses will have likely done abosolutely nothing in the meantime and will be scrambling in the end. Those who balk at the people proposing this now will be begging these "radical thinkers" to save their sorry, NIMBY, political-asses when a true crisis is looming within their term
granted, I do think in such a scenario the military, not because they give two cents about our city but for PR purposes, would probably give up miramar before we would be forced into an offshore airport, but you never know
Right now people talk about a new airport like it's some fun plan to envision big jets taking off for distant lands right from our own city, like it's a ficticious wish-list item that we can take or leave if we so choose. People aren't really grasping that the politics, environmental evaluations, planning, construction, etc take many many years for a new airport to reach the point of being operational and the longer we do nothing, the more we reach a critical timepoint to which the whole process of building a new airport can not be completed before noticable problems start occruing at the current facility. It really is a critical issue and looking at things like a sea-based airport are not being done out of whimsy, they are being done because we are running out of time and alternatives