DavidJamesTO
Active Member
Tell that to Boston or the Logan Airport. While LOG, at 1 km away from Boston's downtown and waterfront, is twice farther than YTZ is from Toronto's downtown, it is an international airport with commercial jets flying out. Boston's waterfront may not exactly be teeming with life, but the airport certainly has very little effect on it (except contributing to the striking down of the plans for a couple of supertalls in Boston downtown, due to flight paths).
Same with London City Airport out in the Docklands business district. They're strict on the planes/pilots who can fly in and out because of the high-rises, but it still moves nearly three million people a year. Flights to northern and central Europe and the possibility of a transatlantic service.
With Pearson, YTZ, and Hamilton working together and used efficiently with high speed rail, we could shelve the Pickering Airport plans permanently.