A6é - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 7, 2003 ~~

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None of this makes sense

Dear Sir:

Business 101, Terrace style. ;

Let me get this right, The airport society now. says the visit from WestJet did precipitate the idea of expanding the runway, but the real reason for asking for 2.5 million of our bucks was because Whitehorse may get charter flights from Germany and we want that, too? Lufthansa is dying to come to Terrace with international air service featuring, not 737s now, but 767s? That's thinking big alright.

Of course, our city council thinks we will get West- Jet, and attract traffic from. Smithers and Rupert, thus killing Hawkair there as well: All of this is assuming that Smithers and Rupert residents will gladly get up in the middie of the night and drive icy roads in the middle of winter down dangerous roads to avail themselves of this service

Then there’s the Bradfield Road. There are volumes of documentation from Alaska acknowledging the road will damage the Terrace and Prince Rupert economy, but Jack Talstra, normally an extremely thoughtful His Worship, doesn’t believe them. He’s counting on Wran- gell citizens taking a ferry, then driving hundreds of ki- lometres down dirt roads, to shop at our new WalMart store.

Think of the economic boom all these new $8 an hour jobs will create. Of course, tourists headed to Alaska and north to use this new road will also drive the extra 200 kilometres round trip from Kitwanga to visit Terrace.

Hey Jack, here’s a heads up. The road is two-lane, That means it’s as likely to take business away as bring it. Alaska isn’t proposing this idiocy to build’ our economy. Alaska is proposing this to steal our business, believe them. -

And our erstwhile MP, Andy Burton, wants to build our regional economy by whacking seals. We'll ail get rich seliing seal penises to China! That will bring the tourists flocking.

There’s a reason BC’s economy is last in Canada, Beam me up, Scotty. There’s no intelligent life here.

. Bruce Hill, Terrace, B.C.

Let’s have a vote on runway idea

Dear Sir:

I have just read the brief item anout adding the run- way extension to a referendum. Bravo I say.

Terrace has always been a town where things get done more for an individual’s status or gain rather than need. LEELE ety

I think the people shave a fight ge tally 3 in these try- ing economic times’to have’ a say.

While all the extension pundits claim the arrival of WestJet will bring people from all over the northwest to fly because it is an-hour faster to Vancouver, no one bo- thers to mention that it is more than negated by the drive to Terrace from the outlying areas.

Hawkair (and others) have made great investments in the economy of Terrace and other served towns and ci- ties.

I don’t believe that putting another 100 people out of work is justified just so the airport manager can add a feather in his cap and the rich folks on the bench can get to Vancouver faster to spend their money out of town.

Ray Hallock, Terrace, B.C. [reniace|

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‘No’ to runway plan

Dear Sir:

“You. build it they will come” ap- pears to be the thinking of the city fa- thers and the airport society.

They believe that this field of dreams will bring prosperity to our town. Perhaps they are counting on the overflow from that other dream, the 2010 Olympics.

These good folks are insisting that we need this expansion to lure WestJet or other companies to come here. Are they forgetting that 737 jets used to land here several times a day for de- cades while charging travellers’ the highest rate per mile in the country, perhaps in the world?

They stopped using jets for econo- mic reasons (planes half empty), noth- ing to do with the runway.

They also talk about landing heavy planes in a tailwind, I am not an avia- tor but that appears to me to be a job for a stunt pilot no matter the length of the runway,

Suppose that WestJet or some other carrier is persuaded to land in Terrace. My prediction is that airfares will go down long enough to put Hawkair out of business and we would return to the good old days paying exorbitant fares or opting to drive for two days.

Hawkair presently has almost 100 employees. Considering spinoffs that is a significant number of people whose jobs are critical not only for them but also to the town. So give your head a good shake and drop the silly expan- sion idea.

John Jensen, Terrace, B.C.

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