A Poll About Air Traffic

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

I know matters are not this simple. Clearly it's not simply a question of either/or... but, as a sort of thought experiment, I'm curious how people here would feel about the following:

A few years ago Handscom Airforce Base in Concord started opening up to commercial traffic. There was a huge push-back, both from the residents of Concord, but also from those whose interest was in the Walden Pond State Reservation, and the Minuteman National Historical Park and Wildlife Refuge. But there are commercial flights out of there now, with increased road traffic to and from the airport, etc. Periodically their license to run commercial flights, and how many, will come up for review.

*If* it was a simple matter of this or that, which would you prefer?
(Radio Buttons, because, while yes, "it depends" and "neither" (or "both") are all valid points, for the purposes of a straight opinion poll, we'll push it to an either/or anyway.)

[Poll #1499801]

Comments

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

The thing is, this really is dodging the key issue. I don't care if planes fly over me when I'm at work, but I do care if they ruin my peace at home. If planes can fly over either a park or a city, they should fly over the park at night when next to nobody is there, and over the city during the day.

[cnoocy]

I care if the park in question is a wildlife refuge.

[maelithil.livejournal.com]

Same.

[maru-mari.livejournal.com]

hmmm... why?

[cnoocy]

If the noise pollution of planes is actively disruptive, it can defeat the point of a wildlife refuge.

It's absolutely not a wildlife refuge

[gruene.livejournal.com]

It the Minuteman National Historic Park:

http://www.nps.gov/mima/index.htm