I got that information from Transport Canada - both in written form and in their presentations to City Council at their Standing Committee on the Harbour Airport.
And they said in North America and probably the world?
Posted 28 August 2009 - 08:05 PM
I got that information from Transport Canada - both in written form and in their presentations to City Council at their Standing Committee on the Harbour Airport.
Posted 06 December 2009 - 10:13 PM
Posted 07 December 2009 - 08:58 AM
The city is seeking tougher rules on float planes using the inner harbour.
Eventually there will be enough pressure from the residents who moved to the harbour, only to complain about the noise, that the float planes will be forced out.
The old concept of maintaining a "working Harbour" will become a thing of the past, and it will become a boring place with the only thing left might be a new bridge, a sewage treatment plant in Rock Bay, and mega yachts shore to shore.
So if if you think you want to get rid of some occasional noise pollution today, you may be hastening a move to something much worse tomorrow.
Posted 07 December 2009 - 09:18 AM
The city is seeking tougher rules on float planes using the inner harbour.
Eventually there will be enough pressure from the residents who moved to the harbour, only to complain about the noise, that the float planes will be forced out.
The old concept of maintaining a "working Harbour" will become a thing of the past...
Posted 07 December 2009 - 09:24 AM
Posted 07 December 2009 - 09:37 AM
^I agree 100%. It will be a shame if the float planes were to leave the inner harbor. Its the same as the people who have moved into the heritage conversion across from Lucky Bar and are now raising a fuss about the noise.
Eliminating the harbor planes would be bad for business and high end tourism in our city.
Posted 07 December 2009 - 09:45 AM
Posted 07 December 2009 - 10:19 AM
The float planes provide a great downtown to downtown service. If you take the float planes out of downtown it would negate that benefit. Plus if you move them elsewhere they are just going to bother someone else. It seems fair, at least to me that the noise should bother those that moved in knowing that the seaplanes operated there, rather than someone who lives somewhere else and would have seaplanes forced on them.
Posted 07 December 2009 - 10:31 AM
Posted 07 December 2009 - 10:56 AM
Posted 07 December 2009 - 11:05 AM
Posted 07 December 2009 - 12:22 PM
I've suggested here more than once that I think a floatplane from Swartz Bay or Sidney to Vancouver (downtown or DeltaPort) would be workable, and a big bonus is parking at each side. Right now the planes waste a good deal of time in the 5mph taxi in and out of our harbour, and they also waste time/fuel with the big circle route around Oak Bay and up the peninsula.
Or could we base them at Ogden Point? http://maps.google.c...19,0.04343&z=15
Posted 07 December 2009 - 01:36 PM
Posted 07 December 2009 - 01:52 PM
In fairness to the Songhees residents, who have been the main whiners to date about noise, they were shown their suites (IIRC) in the middle of November, when floatplane traffic was way down from its summer peak. That being said, Bob, I do agree.Stuff like this fascinates me. How can people who moved to the area KNOWING that this a working harbour (let's be honest, I don't see how anyone could not figure that out, with a seaplane leaving every 15-30 minutes), and now they bytch and whine that it's too noisy.
Posted 07 December 2009 - 02:34 PM
Posted 07 December 2009 - 02:59 PM
Saltspring Air already flies from Sidney (Maple Bay) to Downtown already.
Posted 07 December 2009 - 03:33 PM
Ummm, AFAIK, Maple Bay is just past Genoa Bay on the east coast of the Cowichan Valley Regional District - not Sidney.
Posted 07 December 2009 - 03:47 PM
In fairness to the Songhees residents, who have been the main whiners to date about noise, they were shown their suites (IIRC) in the middle of November, when floatplane traffic was way down from its summer peak. That being said, Bob, I do agree.
Posted 07 December 2009 - 05:49 PM
I think the poster meant Pat Bay.
Posted 07 December 2009 - 05:52 PM
In fairness to the Songhees residents, who have been the main whiners to date about noise, they were shown their suites (IIRC) in the middle of November, when floatplane traffic was way down from its summer peak. That being said, Bob, I do agree..
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