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Airport Relations Committee
Committee Chair: Denny Schneider
LAX's Northern Runways Are Safe and Should Not be Moved
A NASA panel says the north runways at Los Angeles International Airport are safe and should remain in their current configuration, according to a report released Friday (February 19, 2010). The panel said that while other proposals -- including widening the distance between the two north runways -- might make the airport runways safer, "the risk is so low, reducing that risk by a substantial percentage is of limited practical importance.”
A committee of academics working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration released a preliminary copy of the report Friday morning at the Flight Path Learning Center near LAX.
Nearby residents had been concerned about the report, fearing it would persuade elected officials to push a runway and surrounding airport land into their neighborhoods.
Airport officials have been trying to determine whether a greater distance between those two runways would reduce the number of near-misses involving arriving and departing jets.
The academic committee was charged with looking at five options. One would involve doing nothing, while a second would push the northernmost runway 100 feet north into Westchester. A third would push the northernmost runway north by 340 feet. A fourth would result in the elimination of one of the two runways on the north side of LAX. A fifth would call on the airport to relocate one of its north runways 340 feet south – a move that would require the demolition of Terminals 1, 2 and 3 at the airport.
As reported by the Los Angeles Times |
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NCWP Airport Relations Agenda
Chairperson - Denny Schneider
www.ncwpdr.org
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Date and time: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 (third Wed of each month) 6:30 p.m.
Place: CD 11 Office Conference Room. Please enter from the door inside the CD 11 Community Room
CD 11 Office 7166 W. Manchester Blvd. (Near Lincoln Blvd.) , Westchester, CA 90045,
CD 11 Office Number (310) 568-8772. For more meeting information contact Denny Schneider at (310) 641-4199
Welcome and Introductions
Discussion/Action (Motion)
- Public Comment
- Committee organization. Selection of secretary and determine how we will keep abreast of LAWA plans and activities impacting the NCWP Community.
- Discussion of the upcoming Notice of Preparation for the update of the LAX Master Plan which we are told will include an option to move runway 24R 340' closer to Westchester and Playa Del Rey.
- Discussion to generate a list of related topics which need to be addressed by the Airport Relations Committee.
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