Santa Monica Airport

[tinerj]

The Santa Monica City Council this week launched an effort to close all or part of the city's airport after July 2015 — a move that could result in years of additional court battles with the federal government.

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-santa-monica-airport-20140327,0,3652824.story

 

[Kelvin]

One person compared the situation to Love Canal, the Niagara Falls neighborhood in upstate New York that was heavily contaminated with industrial pollutants in the 1970s. Another speaker worried about safety, saying that being near the airport was like living in Tel Aviv and waiting for a bomb to go off.


"Every takeoff becomes terrorism," she said.

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-santa-monica-airport-20140327,0,3652824.story#ixzz2xAWJBHG7
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