blowjob4pilot
13.08.04, 19:54
W Berlinie nie wiedza, czego chca - maja 3 lotniska. Zamykaja jedno bo jest
za male. Drugie nie ma szans na rozwoj bo jest w ganicach miasta. Trzecie,
mimo ze na pipidowku, ma problemy z rozwojem, bo mieszkancy okolicznych
wiosek go nie chca. Kazdy krzyczy swoje "tak budujcie, byle by nie w moim
ogrodku" ale dupe wozic samolotami kazdy chce.
Berlin gets green light to build giant airport
13 August 2004
BERLIN - Government officials in Germany announced Friday that they had
approved plans to build a giant new airport on the outskirts of the capital
Berlin, paving the way for the construction of one of the world's largest new
air transport facilities.
Construction will not get underway however, until the outcome of a court
appeal by outraged local residents is known.
The new BBI (Berlin Brandenburg International) airport is to be constructed
on the site of the existing Schoenefeld airport, a somewhat shabby communist-
era facility currently mostly used by discount airlines offering holiday
packages to Eastern European destinations.
The plan is for BBI to be jointly owned by the German federal government and
the state government of Berlin and Brandenburg, after a proposed private
ownership scheme fell through in May of last year.
The ambitious project would utterly transform Schoenefeld (SXF). The small
airport, about 25 kilometres from the centre of Berlin, currently handles
around 1.2 million passengers per year and is easily accessible by road and
rail.
The new airport, if constructed, will however face tough restrictions
covering flight paths and night flights in order to protect residents of
local suburbs from noise pollution, according to the Brandenburg transport
ministry.
Such measures may however not be enough to sooth angry locals, who have
opposed the scheme since permission to build was first sought a decade ago.
Up to 134,000 residents filed legal objections to the plan, citing noise
pollution and potential damage to wildlife, amongst other reasons.
Airport opponents are also challenging the government approval to the plan at
the Federal Administrative Tribunal in Leipzig. If judges reject the
challenge, construction could start in 2006 and the first stage could be
complete by 2010.
The Schoenefeld site has a 2,710-metre concrete runway and a 3,000-metre
asphalt runway and a single terminal which despite its out-of-date equipment
could form the core of a modern terminal. Under the construction plan, one
runway would be torn up and a new 4,000- metre runway would be built further
south.
Most scheduled flights to and from Berlin currently use Tegel Airport (TXL),
which currently handles 5 million passengers per year. The airport's location
inside the city limits however means that the scope for expansion is
extremely limited.
Berlin has a third public airport as well, at Tempelhof, just 6 kilometres
from the centre. It handles 225,000 passengers per year.
Templehof, despite being a favourite of Berliners due to its central
location, striking architecture and historical significance as the centre of
the Soviet-era Berlin airlift, is slated for closure as its runways are too
short to handle the mid-sized aircraft that are the workhorses of the modern
discount airline.
The far-flung locations of all three airports have often meant transport
headaches for Berliners and tourists and city planners hope to demolish the
other two airports once BBI is up and running.
DPA
