Tweed-New Haven Airport: A flood of opinions.

https://www.zip06.com/news/20231204/mother-nature-complicates-tweed-master-plan/?fbclid=IwAR1GdltMT0xqL6GR8xLFjci9nOcAo6_HutADl7aeP0wp3McCptouedMP0Hs

Our response to the ⬆️ above.

The flooding at Coe and Hemingway is not under Tweed’s purview or responsibility. Tweed Airport is no rarity when it comes to airports all across the country and how they relate to regional infrastructure problems surrounding them.

This problem is one between East Haven, the State of Connecticut, local business and residents. Tweed New Haven Airport’s proposed passenger Terminal isn’t meant to be the solution to worlds’ problems any more than it is the cause. Regardless of where a passenger Terminal is located for Tweed-New Haven Airport, Hemingway and Coe are going to have flooding concerns. That is, until the responsible parties do something.

If the Passenger Terminal remains on the Airport West-Side, what happens to the flooding problem in East Haven? Does it magically dry up? Sounds like East Haven and other airport opponents are masking the real problem: Them.

There are inadequacies in infrastructure surrounding Tweed for many miles, just like every Airport faces. Should Tweed be considering inadequate local rail? Failings in Mass Transit? Failing roads and Bridges? Highway gridlock? If so, how far should Tweed’s consideration be?

An evacuation route you say? Sure, and the entrance to Tweed’s Passenger Terminal being located to Proto Drive is going to align in just the right way when the next mega-storm hits the area so as to trap, strand and lead to countless deaths of East Shore residents? This is what your article implies, does it not?

How have those frequent Evacuations gone on South End and Minor Road during the last floods? Did they make it out alive? In fact, did they evacuate the last time it flooded? And the time before ? That’s right…they didn’t evacuate…because their homes are on stilts…just like Tweed’s new passenger terminal will be. I guess it’s ok to throw stones from a glass house after all? Or in this case, an elevated house.

We don’t suspect modern weather forecasting, Public Information Statements, Weather Watches and Warnings, Civil Disaster Contingencies will give local residents and travelers any insight to the next Superstorm hitting the area and how to evacuate?

Surely people will know nothing of the impending doom of the next storm and become trapped in Momaugin…and all because of Tweed’s new passenger Terminal entrance no less. And lest we forget, there are no other ways out the area. Well, you could always do a humanitarian airlift. But wait, you need an airport for that!

The US Navy and Coast Guard could always use boats for the rescue too!

Maybe Ken Engleman and Lorena Venegas should be writing the script to the next blockbuster disaster movie instead of sharing their opinions with the community?

And by the way Ken Engleman, was that a micro-aggression about cost-conscious air travelers and “cheap” airfare? The citing of “cheap“ is not a societal norm construed as a compliment in case you didn’t know. But nevermind that Ken, go back to being a nice guy and saving us from Tweed.

Speaking of Ken and Lorena of well-known Airport Opposition: Maybe they would like to explain to New Haven Residents near and along Townsend Avenue how relocating the Terminal to the East Side will negatively impact said residents? It wont. Ken and Lorena don’t want your vehicular traffic.

Travelers using HVN currently make their way through residential neighborhoods to access the airport…is that more appropriate than using a largely commercial industrial zone, four-lane state road that floods occasionally? Ken and Lorena should show us all a presentation on this! We want to see the pros and cons of each. But no…I think they will sweep that project under the rug.

This opposition to Tweed, spearheaded by the likes of Ken Engleman, Lorena Venegas and East Haven itself is a very carefully crafted form of deception in order to mask the real reason to oppose Tweed..NIMBY’ism. In masking this reason, local opposition groups and East Haven itself have exerted a great deal of privilege in opposing Tweed. That privilege is called money.

Said efforts are falsely using cries of the environment (one of many for example) to cloak opposition to Tweed-New Haven Airport: We don’t want your Airport Traffic. We are NIMBY’s. This, all the while, ignoring the simple fact that the airport (come Hell or High Water) is going to need an airport entrance one way or the other. Idealism has its perks.

Tony Ward, Joe Giordano, Kat Rugiero, Kevin Hellyar, Vincent Perrelli, T.Lorenti, Michael T. Giordano