Let’s not tar and feather Porter Airline’s Robert Deluce for wanting to add jet traffic to his turbo prop noisemaking. Exile him to a small, mid-Atlantic island, far from Toronto’s shore? OK, that seems reasonable.
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Jane’s Walk leader Anshul Kapoor of NoJetsTO apologizes for the difficulty he has speaking over the Porter airplane noise, even with a megaphone. The noise is shocking. I don’t know how people live down there.
This racket happens 200 times a day, until 11:00 at night. Locals complain of powerful smells of aviation fuel. And Deluce wants to add jets. “Whisper jets” he calls them, because they could be as QUIET as the ones he’s flying now.
The mayor of whom Anshul speaks is in Chicago for addiction rehab. Let’s hope he also learns why Chicago ripped out its waterfront airport.
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Funny story. There is an attractively landscaped Music Garden at the water’s edge on Queen’s Quay. It offers free public concerts but it has become difficult to get musicians to play there, because the plane noise interferes.
When I mentioned this to a pro-jets person, he said, “Well, what a stupid place to put a music concert, right next to an airport”.
That pro-jets person is 100% correct (and a man after my own heart).
You are incorrigible, Mr Hickey, but consistent, anyway. Of course, the Music Garden was there for many years before Porter Airlines began its noisy flights. The school and community centre down there were also there first, but Deluce wanted to put them somewhere else so he could use the space for a parking lot.
It looks as though the Porter plans are unlikely to be allowed, but resistance to Porter pressure must be maintained.