Airplane noise over Jersey
Published: Friday, December 24, 2010, 6:13 AM
By Letters to the Editor/The Star-Ledger
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The FAA wants to direct more aircraft over Northern New Jersey, creating more noise.
Gov. needs to step in New Jersey residents suffer some of the greatest aircraft impacts in the nation. The New Jersey Coalition Against Aircraft Noise is grateful that Sen. Kevin O’Toole (R-Essex) has organized a fight against an FAA plan to make things worse.
The FAA plans shortly to redirect JFK Airport departures over northern New Jersey areas already heavily overflown by Newark Liberty International and LaGuardia airport traffic. Newark departures are rerouted to over-fly more people at lower altitude. Tens of thousands of residents will see large increases in noise. Legal challenges by municipalities in Union and Bergen counties, and NJCAAN were unsuccessful.
This FAA airspace redesign would increase the average flight distance by 3.7 miles. To justify the plan, the FAA assumed unreasonably high traffic levels that have proved wildly off the mark. The FAA admits that without these traffic levels, claimed benefits will not be realized. Air traffic controllers and aviation experts have criticized the plan’s safety and feasibility. Yet the FAA continues to plow ahead.
O’Toole has enlisted Reps. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-11th Dist.) and Rob Andrews (D-2nd Dist.), and brought the issue before Gov. Chris Christie. NJCAAN hopes Christie will join the fight against this expensive, ill-conceived plan.
Frederick Obrock, director, New Jersey Coalition Against Aircraft Noise
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