Community concerns hold up construction at Tweed New Haven Airport
The planned revitalization of Tweed New Haven Airport is having trouble achieving liftoff.
Tweed New Haven Airport Authority Chairman Mark Volchek ’00 GRD ’00 announced Friday that he will halt construction of two safety zones on Tweed’s runway for 60 days. The standstill in the $10 million project comes as Tweed officials have said they want to increase communication between the airport and community residents, many of whom have expressed unhappiness with the proposed expansion.
The announcement follows a recent lawsuit by many East Haven residents — including Mayor April...
Ugh. The worse thing about Yale and New Haven (otherwise a place I love) is accessibility. We have no airport anywhere nearby. This seriously affects our competitiveness against Princeton and Harvard, both of whom have good airports relatively close by.
Ryan, Bradley is a 50 minute drive - no worse than getting to Logan or Newark in traffic. That said, expanding Tweed should be a regional priority. The entire town of East Haven should be bulldozed and the land used to build a real international airport for Connecticut.
To #3,
Yes, Bradley is only a 50 minute drive. But compared to Newark and Logan (and their university's respective proximities) it has many disadvantages.
1) They have good public transit from campus to airport. We have Connecticut Limo, which, even with a student discount, is rather expensive and inconvenient.
2) Newark and Logan have lots of flights to all over the world. Bradley is decent with their national flight but only has a single direct flight to Europe and none to Asia (obviously). Also, the flights out of Bradley tend to be pricier than from Newark or Logan.
The issue of connectivity to the world is not just airports, either. You can get from Princeton to Manhattan in about 80 minutes (there's a train station right on campus) whereas here it's a 110 minute, more-expensive train ride PLUS the time and cost it takes to get from campus to union station. This is a serious problem.
I seriously doubt any prospective student would turn down Yale because there wasn't an airport close enough. There is Bradley in CT, sandwiched in between Boston and three major airports to our south. There is no need for an "international" airport. None of you apparently turned down Yale, why expect the region to foot the bill to make your transportation needs trouble free? Get over yourselves, if the time it takes to get to Union station is such a hassle transfer to Cromsonville.
well said # 5,but maybe some of these Grad Students need to have an escape route that is quicker as panic starts setting in, as they feel the pangs of "Grad for Life".i think a quicker departure for Asian students who have landed jobs in Hong Kong and Shangai would be a benifit,to them
#5 - Premise 1 is incorrect. Sorry.
I almost turned down Yale because it's so darn far away from everything other than itself. And now, despite how much I love this place, I am kind of regretting coming here because of how hard it is to get anywhere but here!
This isn't being held up, they are just giving the community a brief period to learn about the construction.