While the effects of the ecological crisis are increasingly visible, a planned
runway closure at Bordeaux-Mérignac airport masks the intention of a more"efficient" redevelopment for the growth of air traffic and transport. commercialspace. ---- In Bordeaux-Mérignac, under the impetus of the Minister of Labour,and not that of Transport, a project to close the secant secondary track, that isto say which cuts the main track, is underway. ---- It would be a question ofremoving it for economic reasons, under the pretext of its poor condition. We arenot fools. This removal will then make it possible to rebuild a new parallelsecondary runway which would facilitate the increase in traffic at peak times,and therefore the extension of the airport, as well as its commercial area. Thisparallel runway project is already included in the 2014 Noise Exposure Plan,according to the Eysino-Haillanaise Association for Defense against AirportNuisances.The realization of this project, and the increase in air traffic which wouldresult from it, would be unacceptable. The threatened secant runway nowrepresents 15% of the airport's traffic, and affects 49,000 inhabitants. Itsremoval would shift all traffic to the populations of the towns of Haillan,Eysines, Saint-Jean-d'Illac, Bruges, Blanquefort and Parempuyre (i.e. 88,000inhabitants), where the noise pollution caused to air traffic are alreadyburdensome for the population. Furthermore, the environmental cost of theaircraft is disastrous. It emits 45 times more CO2 than the train at an equaldistance, in addition to producing other greenhouse gases. A sustained increasein air traffic would be unsustainable according to IPCC scenarios.A disastrous costThe planes that transit the most are commercial planes, that is to say those thattransport goods. The capitalist absurdity making it often less " expensive »financially to buy products that have been around the world several times ratherthan local products. Producing and selling locally, for ecological and socialreasons and not for a nationalist reason, means reducing the impact of transport.Low-cost airlines have been a major contributor to the global increase in airtraffic. Employees - pilots, flight attendants, baggage handlers, and employeesof commercial spaces - are already working in degraded conditions, are poorlypaid, and we want to further increase air traffic and competition even though a apolicy of trade union repression is put in place by the management of thesecompanies. Finally, let us recall the military use of this airport,The question of enlargement has been coming up very regularly for years, and ifit is abandoned again it will come up again in a few years. We do not just wantthe project to remove the secant runway to be abandoned, but the socialization ofairports and airlines, and the consideration of environmental and human costs intheir management.UCL Bordeauxhttps://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Aeroport-de-Bordeaux-Merignac-une-piste-peut-en-cacher-une-autre_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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