Originally published at: Coalition Pushes Back on Renewed Bid to Close a Cleveland Airport
Advocates say the Cleveland airport remains a critical aviation link.
The last time the city looked into closing Burke lakefront airport the city gave up when they found out how much it would cost to environmentally clean up the site. The fact that the mayor and county exec have not brought up a plan on how other local airports would pick up the additional traffic tells me they haven’t looked into the cost of any cleanup involved.
This is remarkably similar to when then-Mayor Rich Daley (the younger) tried to close Meigs Field on the Chicago lakefront. He did not get federal permission and then just illegally shut it down with no notice. I certainly hope the supporters prevail in keeping this asset open. They may want to try to file a court order to keep it open to keep transparency of the local mayor and county chairman from shutting it down.
You can see what Chicago has done with the old Meigs airport site. A jogging trail and a concert venue. I used to fly a King Air in there on a regular basis. Company people would go to the McCormick Convention Center.
Yep, totally underutilized in its present form. Daley REALLY screwed Chicago and the aviation community with his underhanded and illegal destruction of Meigs - and he got away with it! We referred to him a “King Daley” after that - and not respectfully.
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