Tweed Airport requests aid from state
Students who fly home from Tweed-New Haven Regional Airport may need to make alternate flight plans in the near future.
Last week, Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell proposed a $38 billion budget to the state legislature that would cut all $570,000 of state funding to independently owned Tweed Airport. If passed, the cut would exacerbate Tweed officials’ budget woes and may cause the airport to return to its old owner, City Hall — a move that could cause the airport to close for good. Although local business executives vigorously support both local and state bailout plans for the ailing...
i wish we would have an airport that actually goes somewhere. i am so sick of being stuck in south-central Connecticut. if i knew it were so hard to get the heck out of here from time to time, i would have gone somewhere like princeton, where nyc and reasonable airports are so much more reachable.
The least expensive remedy for tweed is to pave the overrun in the southern part of runway 2-20.This land is in new haven and would allow aircraft landing on runway 20 to have extra paved area to come to a stop and allow aircraft departing on runway 2 to carry a full load.This would remove the final barrier that stops carriers from starting service to new haven.
Somehow I always find it disconcerting that Tweed's opponents use the same tired old singsong: "Yale's behind the airport wanting to expand." I find that harder and harder to believe. You have Professor David Cameron, who, no matter how much the city slashes the airport's subsidy, is never satisfied. (Does he want the airport to hold a bake sale?) You have the Nutman editorial pushing for rail improvements when the cost of the New Haven rail yard improvements is projected at $1 billion. You have the Yale Transit buses which won't even go out to Tweed because the demand is so small. And you have the group of students who, last year, took the train to New York and then surface transport to the airport to fly to New Orleans.And you have the Yale employees who took advantage of the univerity's housing assistance subsidy to buy houses on the East Shore, right near Tweed. I only wish the Yale community WOULD be vocal enough in supporting Tweed to justify the opposition's claims. If you think the idea of an improved Tweed Airport isn't all that weird, I'd like to hear from you at thetweedring@yahoo.com.