Second_in_pie
Senior Member
John Munro would be a good airport to expand. It would help the GGH remain less centralized, and would help Hamilton develop it's own economy. It would also provide a great gateway to Niagara Falls for vacations, and special deals there could probably help both Hamilton and Niagara.
I don't think that Pickering is a great idea, really. I have a feeling that we'll need a place to put more freight traffic, but I think John Munro would be a better candidate for that, and would help Hamilton reach it's goals of being reliant on less heavy industries and more into things like Pharmaceuticals.
After that, we don't really need anything else. The smaller airports like Buttonville and Oshawa should stay open, but remain in private traffic. But I actually can't keep a straight face when someone proposes Buttonville as a receiver of chartered flights as an alleviator to Pearson.
I think with a quick city centre link (Toronto Island,) the big international airport (Pearson,) and the outer city/vacation airport (Hamilton,) we should be set. And if Ontario and Quebec get any further in cooperating for Quebec-Windsor HSR, Pearson's going to see a lot less traffic. Once (if,) the US gets working on it's designated HSR routes, I imagine air traffic to those rather huge destinations will drop considerably. The Quebec-Windsor Corridor, coupled by a Chicago-Detroit HSR, and New York HSR, could make Pearson laughable as a major international airport. So instead, we should be working on making Union station as large and fluid as possible. Make it a real contender to Grand Central, and bury the tracks through downtown, for god sake's!
I don't think that Pickering is a great idea, really. I have a feeling that we'll need a place to put more freight traffic, but I think John Munro would be a better candidate for that, and would help Hamilton reach it's goals of being reliant on less heavy industries and more into things like Pharmaceuticals.
After that, we don't really need anything else. The smaller airports like Buttonville and Oshawa should stay open, but remain in private traffic. But I actually can't keep a straight face when someone proposes Buttonville as a receiver of chartered flights as an alleviator to Pearson.
I think with a quick city centre link (Toronto Island,) the big international airport (Pearson,) and the outer city/vacation airport (Hamilton,) we should be set. And if Ontario and Quebec get any further in cooperating for Quebec-Windsor HSR, Pearson's going to see a lot less traffic. Once (if,) the US gets working on it's designated HSR routes, I imagine air traffic to those rather huge destinations will drop considerably. The Quebec-Windsor Corridor, coupled by a Chicago-Detroit HSR, and New York HSR, could make Pearson laughable as a major international airport. So instead, we should be working on making Union station as large and fluid as possible. Make it a real contender to Grand Central, and bury the tracks through downtown, for god sake's!