The Great (Edmonton) Airport Debate
The debate between closing and maintaining the Edmonton City Centre Airport (YXD) has heated up as of late. With City Councilors set to make a decision on July 8, opinion is still widely divided between the two view points.
With that in mind, fusedlogic will be hosting the “Great Airport Debate” at our studio in Sherwood Park. We currently have Mack Male (creator of notmyairport.ca) and Dave MacLean (creator of saveourairport.ca) lined up to continue a discussion they began last week, but were unable to continue due to time restraints. Well, we don’t have any of those here. As well, we may be adding a few more guests to sit on the discussion panel – we’ll update this post as soon as any are confirmed.
Tune in to fusedlogic.tv at 7:00 pm MST this Monday. There will be a chat room set up to allow viewers to engage in their own discussion and be involved with the main show.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The downtown airport services a privileged few and is supported a few special interest groups who make illogical arguments based on a 20-30 min cab drive from the International airport as being the main basis of their argument to maintain it. Reality check…almost every other major city in North America has the same distance for travel from their International Airports to downtown! I have been to probably 30-40 major cities in Canada and the US and can attest to the fact that this rationale for maintaining a second airport in a city of 1 million is absurd. Close it now. Unfortunately I doubt that the councilors in Edmonton have the common sense to go against logic or heaven forbid cross Cal Nichols and fellow over the hill councilor Ron Hayter, but one can only hope.
Thank-you for your comments…
Rio??? Rio has a downtown airport that services only their biggest business partner. Sau Paulo. Check your facts. Edmonton has HUGE asset that virtually all cities around the world would love to have and we are pissing it away.