It is interesting that the Guilford County commissioners are balking at awarding $1.03 million to RF Micro Devices to create 300 (undoubtedly well-paying) environment-enhancing jobs after they overwhelmingly approved giving how many millions (directly and indirectly) to FedEx to create a questionable number of low-paying part-time jobs and totally destroying the environment around the airport.
It was a poor choice to locate a noisy night-time cargo transshipment operation in the midst of this residential area while allowing day-time passenger service to deteriorate to the point it has. The unnecessary third runway necessitated all sorts of road changes that have decimated the landscape out there.
Have you tried to get to the terminal lately? And when you get there, there's such a paucity of good flights that you have to drive to Charlotte or Raleigh-Durham to get good ones.
In addition to their sleep-disturbing night-time noise, cargo planes create much more pollution than surface transportation. Are we relying too much on air transportation of cargo that could move more efficiently (both in terms of energy and pollution) by well-planned and executed surface transport -- both highway and rail?
Harry P. Clapp
Greensboro
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"Are we relying too much on air transportation of cargo that could move more efficiently (both in terms of energy and pollution) by well-planned and executed surface transport -- both highway and rail?"
Scenario: A client calls me and needs a product overnight, pronto, as often happens.
My response: Mr./Ms. Client, in order to move your product more efficiently in terms of energy and pollution, I've opted instead to use well planned and executed surface transport, either highway or rail. Your product will arrive in 5 days. Thank you for your business.
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September 21, 2007 6:14 AM