The Daily Crime today published an editorial calling for the Town of Ocean City to honor its word to the FAA to expand it's airport. This, despite the residential and commercial growth in the surrounding area that has taken place in the intervening years since that agreement was signed.
But conditions have changed, and so must the terms of the original agreement.... So in the immortal words of Ron Ziegler; "that statement is no longer operative."
Listen, we all know what the agreement was but, we also know that the city, under the leadership of virtually every mayor and council since Fish Powell has adamantly denied there were plans to expand the airport for jet traffic. And those denials came in response to community opposition to doing so. But we also know that those plans were already on the drawing board, because we saw them with our own four eyes.
Ocean City has no need for a larger airport; it already has one less than 20 miles to the west. If the FAA wants its money back, then the city needs to float a bond to pay them, not to build something nobody wants.
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I agree,
They have already scaled back the number of flights a day out of the Salisbury Regional Airport due to lack of paying customers. What does it take 20 minutes to get from the bury to OC. OC needs to spend the $$$$ on figuring out how to correct the traffic issues. hmmmmmmmmmmm good luck!
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You note that I wrote 20 MILES, not minutes.
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