Originally Posted by Mr.Brown
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A330busdriver have you actually looked at the facts yet?
I agree its about 25years after its required, however most of the houses in Portmarnock were in fact built well before plans for the first 28/10 runway was planned.
There is a lot of new developments in the Portmarnock area in fact right under the current flight path however the large majority are there since the vickers days of Aerlingus.
The answer of another runway is just the cheap answer to the problem, another Airport is the solution to the problem, and think of all those people who could travel to Baldonel without having to use a toll road! Maybe thats why its not being used as a second Airport because the gov have no toll road to it yet!!!!! Dublin Airport is surrounded by toll roads.
I remember the new east-west runway being talked about around Baldoyle and Portmarnock in the early 70's, around the same time as the Viscounts were sitting in Penguin Alley and Martello and other estates were being built in Portmarnock. Maybe the people who moved into the new houses didn't know about the planned runway, but the locals sure did.