Citizens of New Canaan, you have lost the right to complain
And you can thank Judy Neville.
In a recent USA Today article, Ms. Neville, a former city first selectman, was quoted as saying “this is not the kind of town that will take this,” as she points toward perfectly coiffed lawns and quaint clapboard houses in her Connecticut town. Ms. Neville, it appears, is leading the city’s fight against plans to revamp the air traffic routes leading into and out of the major airports in Metropolitan New York City — plans that will carry that traffic over New Canaan.
Does the landed gentry of New Canaan really think its green grass is more deserving of quiet skies than, say, the folks living in the projects of New Haven, 37 miles up I-95? Send the noise over the poor people! Who cares if it bothers them, as long as my flight is on-time and my back yard is peaceful.
Ms. Neville, your posturing has just lost you — and by extension the rest of the folks in New Canaan — the right to ever complain about a delay in or out of a New York airport. If you want to raise the NIMBY flag and protest a viable solution to the problem, that’s fine, but by doing so, we don’t want to hear a word from you the next time you are 55th in line for takeoff at LaGuardia.
I suggest James Oberstar (D-Minn.) change his proposed Air Service Improvement Act to say that if a citizen of New Canaan writes to an airline with a complaint about a delay or cancellation, the carrier may throw it in the trash.
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