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12 THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Wednesday April 24, 1974 Pickering Plan Wipes Out Buttonville Airport, Hits Hill BY HAL BLAINE Richmond Hill town autho- rities and residents have been lulled to sleep by what, are probably false assuranc-,I es regarding the noise threatr faced from the proposed. New Toronto International; Airport (NTIA) in Markham- Pickering, according to con- sultants retained by the Town of Markham. Consultants Paterson Planâ€" ning and Research Limited told Markham Council the noise cones to be expected from the new airport have been vastly underestimated. Originally predicted to cut a noise swath across Victoria Square and H'eadford com- munities past Bayview Ave- nue and almost to Yonge Street, there was a later as- surance the noise nuisance would st0p at the Richmond Hill eastern boundary along- side Woodbine Avenue (Don Mills Road). Not so, say the Markham consultants. If anything, the noise cone as the airport de- velops can be expected to out further and wider into Richmond Hill than origi- nally indicated. Unable to get Richmond Hill, Whitchurch-Stouffville, or York Region Council sup- port for a submission critiâ€" cizing the airport proposal, Markham went it alone. The Markham consultants‘ study has been completed and signed by Mayor Anthony Roman for submission to the federal government's Air- port Inquiry Commission now underway at the Toron- to Dominion Centre in Met- ro. Markham's solicitor and consultant are attending and taking an active part on the town‘s behalf. DISADVANTAGES DOMINATE The Markham consultants conclude that new evidence on the airport plan not only casts serious doubt on the need for a new airport, but also shows clearly that if one is to be built. the disadvan- tages of the Pickering-Mark- ham site far outweigh its advantages. Among other things the airport proposal can be ex- pected to wipe out the pre- sent badly needed Button- ville regional smallcraft air- port. one of the numerous major costs forgotten or seriously underestimated in the international airport plans. say the consultants. Markham Town will be left with only 39% of its 1971 land area. This will be a reduction from 52,500 acres to 20.360. The CedarwoodaParkway. Belt plans will take 14% of the town or 7,500 acres, the hydro corridor 2% or 940 acres, freeways 1% or 500 acres, airport expropriation? 10% or 5,200 acres and out of control in airport noise lands 34% or 18,000 acres. The principals acting for the consultants include Do- nald Paterson, a highly qua- lified planner with 20 years experience in the Metro and Oshawa area and service with an airport planning board; plus Dr. John Winter, an urban geographer. and teacher of planning at Ryer- son and Laurentian Univer- sities. HARMS MARKHAM In his covering letter to the submission to the inqui- ry, Mayor Roman says. “The research findings from the study carried out by the consultants confirm our fear that the proposed 'New Toâ€" ronto International Airport, if built at the Pickering-Markâ€" ham site, will be much more harmful than beneficial to the Markham area. Con- sequently council has adop- ted this position, and it is the position taken through- out the submission." “The arguments put forth . . . are accordingly adopted by council and submit-led to the commission on behalf of the people of the Town of Markham," concludes the mayor. The Markham submission itself is only 10 pages long in summary form. But it is backed up by a 34-page ap- pendix complete with de- tailed references to details drawn from the multitude of documents gathered by the commission and made avail- able to consultant represen- tatives of responsible inte- rested authorities. “If the Ministry of Trans- port released its forecasts of noise contours for the latter part of the 20th Century, they would pro‘llabl-y show contours impinging on the nearby populated areas,” say the consultants. HITS 50,000 PEOPLE The 1971 federal census shows 20,500 Markham resi- dents and 16,000 Richmond Hill residents in, or adjacent to, the noise cones projected for the new airport. “These areas have sub- stantial space for expansion and may double in populaâ€" tion while the traffic at the new airport is increasing by 775%. There are at least 50,000 people near the air- port when the communities 0 f Whitchurchâ€"Stouffville and Claremont are includ- ed." says the study. M THE ROUTE I 30 - 60‘ MINUTE SERVICE Extension of service from Yonge St. and Steeles Ave. to the Finch Ave. subway. Serv- ice to be provided east of Leslie Street on Simonston Blvd. ' he keep Suoww Romfield Leslie John 81 TTC Loop John 81 8. Bayview Finch Yonge 81 Bayview Steeles Westbound Subway Steeles Eastbound AM- A.M. A.M. A.M. AM. A.M. 6 00 600 6:10 630 6:37 6:45 6 20 6.30 6:40 7:00 7 07 7:15 6 40 7-00 710 7:30 7 37 745 7 00 7:30 7:40 8:00 8:07 8:15 M52- 7 20 8:00 8:10 8:30 8 37 8:45 T‘mes 8'9 7 40 m 830 8:40 9.00 9 07 9.15 'eaV'W 8 00 Timesme ' 9 00 - 9:10 ‘ 9:30 ' 9 37 ' 9:45 ""‘95‘ 8 20 Ieavmg times -10 oo ~1o:1o -1o.3o '10 37 '10-45 8 40 ~11oo '11:10 '1130 '1137 '11:45 '900 Transfer Pomr John St 9 40 Transfer Point Baywew :10 20 John & PM. PM. PM. P.M. PM. H 00 83W” '12-00 '1210 '12-30 '12 37 '12 45 ' 1:00 ' 1:10 '130 ~ 137 '145 "‘40 ‘ 2.00 - 2.10 - 2:30 ‘ 237 ' 245 Sam” '12 30 ' 3 00 - 3:10 1 3:30 - 3 37 - 3 45 Schedu'e ‘00 'Salurday ' 4:00 ' 4:10 4.00 4:07 4:15 i 40 Schedule 430 4:40 - 4~30 - 4:37 ' 4 45 3 30 ' 5:00 ' 5:10 5:00 507 5:15 ' 3 00 530 5:40 ' 5:30 - 5 37 - 5.45 ' 3 40 6-00 610 600 607 615 400 6 30 6.40 6:30 6 37 6 45 4 3O 7 oo 7 07 7 15 4 '40 5 00 ’ 5 :0 5 40 CHECK MAPS 6 so 6 40 FOR YOUR A REA Nlcuwny 7 “Airport noise will disturb more people than the govâ€" ernment statistics suggest." “On the basis of the . . . predictions the nolse con- tours at Pickering will con- tinue to expand." POPULATION GROWING “Moreover, the population, that will be disturbed by" noise at NTIA Pickering has been underestimated due to the short-term time span of the official forecasts and due to the government research metho- dology . . . in the foresee- able future beyond 1985 the growing population in Mark- ham area will have to be protected from the detri- mental effects of aircraft noise, This will impose ope- rating restrictions on the new airport and reduce the effectiveness of this substan- tial public investment." Thus the consultants find the airport, if it is to be built east of Metro, should be moved further east where it won't contribute to fur- ther Metro sprawl, won't smash the Toronto-Centred Region Plan, won't destroy good farm land, and where it can be placed within its own Single municipality on a larger site. The consultants sum- marize Markham‘s objections to the airport proposal as follows: NOISE EFFECT With regard to the ques- tion “15 this site not suit- able because of the number of people that will be affecâ€" nature of the, ted by noise disturbance from aircraft?" The follow- ing arguments are submitâ€" ted: Unless noise emissions are greatly reduced the noise contours at Pickering will expand during the later 20th Century and will probably, envelop the rapidly growing communities near the new airport. The number of people affected by noise around the new airport has been fur- ther underestimated due to the following reasons: 0 The Ministry of Trans- port uses too high an NEF rating as the safe limit; 0 The noise contours ig- nore the lower background noise in the rural environ- ment of NTIA; O The population statis- tics for the NTIA area were not updated whereas those for the Malton area were; 0 Published projections fail to predict the effect on noise contours of: actual Operating procedures; more than three runways at NTIA; ‘ ristics of supersonic aircraftzi :data that is ambiguous, un- ‘ reliable and contradictory. a range of possible runway. layouts, V O The projections assumel that supersonic aimraft are only as disruptive as the noisiest aircraft flying today; 0 The projections ignore‘: the night ‘peaking' charactc-1 o The predictions do not‘ take into account the noise of ground access vehicles; 0 The population estima- tes appear to be based on If noise emissions are greatly reduced, then the rationale for building a new airport is undermined. Other policies to further alleviate the problem of ex- panding noise contours around NTIA Pickering are: 0 Moving NTIA a few miles to the northeast so that the expanding noise contours do not envelop ra- pidly growing communities; or 0 Moving all TIA inter- national traffic to Mirabel, Quebec. ECONOMIC EFFECT With regard to the quesâ€" tion “Is this site not suitable because of regional econo- mic effect‘?" The following arguments are submitted: The Pickering-Markham site is contrary to the Toron- todCentred Region Plan be- ernemnt's calculations showing offsetting savings in user ground travel costs are, misleading because they evi-I dently either assume that the southwest airports will pro- vide all flight choices proviâ€" ded by the two Toronto air- ports, or they ignOre the cost of required connecting flights. They also assume an un- realistically low cost of 25c per interconnecting transit trip between Malton and Pickering, and appear to ig- nore costs of interconnecting trips among the unstath number of southwest air- ports. As only a one-airport system can provide all flight choices without inter- connecting trips, the user cost advantages of a single central location such as Malton are thereby evidently understated. 4r :1: 4r Because of surroundirs land uses, the Pickering site has a severely restricted potential for adding and aligning runways and for scheduling operations, parti- cularly of noise aircraft such as supersonic transports. It is submitted that the most desirable departure times of the SST‘s will tend to peak at night as previously noted. and that this operational restriction will therefore prevent a full international cause it will stimulate growth in Metro Toronto and its immediate fringe more than in other parts of the region. Recent evidence that the Scarboro express- way will not be built streng- thens this conclusion. As a means of stimulating growth away from the -Mefi‘o area, NTIA will prove low in efâ€" fectiveness but high in cost. If a second airport must be built, user costs are high- er for Malton plus the Picâ€" kering site than for Malton plus a western site. As new evidence, we submit that the government calculations are based on unrealfstically low figures for vehicle costs per mile, and that a nominal value, such as the minimum wage, should be assigned to passengers' ground travel time. This new evidence in- dicates probable additional user costs due to the Picke- ring location of close to 800 million dollars over the 1971-2001 period. * * * A two-airport system, and even more a system compris- ing two airports at Toronto pIUS'a number of southwest airports, involves much wes- teful duplication, Moreover, it is submitted that the gov- role for this site. As surrounding municipa- lities compete for the econo- mic grovflh stimulated by the new airport, this restric- tion due to surrounding land uses is bound to grow more serious. As a consequence, the massive public invest- ment in NTIA will not be protected, and the region will fail to experience full benefit from its operation. Yet its costs will exceed those of a better-located comparable site more remote from urban areas and thus protected from such restric- tions. chosen. I 4: 4: at 1 It is submitted that theI proposed site and the accom-I panying zoning, development. and mortgage lending resâ€"‘I trictions on adjacent noiser lands will cover approxima- tely 44% of the land area' of the Town of Markham, and will adversely affect pri- vate property values, and levies on these lands. Both the unexpropriated private owners and the Town require compensation for these losses if they are not to subsidize the people of Canada, but this was not taken into account when the site was selected. =14 4: :lr A major airport on the Pickering site will cast serious doubt on the future of Buttonville Airport, and could require its cTosing by the end of the century, but the costs of finding an equally good location for a replacement general purpose airport were not taken into account when the Pickering site was chosen. Yet such a well-located general purpose airport is essential to the region. 4: it a The demand forecasts have been revised several times and are still widely disputed. In particular, the recent re- vision 0f the air cargo fore- cast sharply downward sug- gests the possibility that the other forecasts may be more prone to error than previous- ly thought, and in particular may err on the high side. If this should pove to be the case. NTIA will not function as planned, and“ will almost certainly turn out to have significant and expen- sive unused capacity and to be financially unfeasible as a selflsupporting operation. Any resulting deficit would have to be made u by the people of the regi or of Canada. ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT :1: >5 >1< Because of its location peripheral to the focus of southern Ontario economic development in the area West of Metro investment in the Pickering site will fail to achieve the maximum regio- nal economic stimulus and multiplier effects possible. It is submitted that the re- cent sharp rise in inflation along with continued unem- ployment requires increased concern for the achievement of optimum real economic growth and that this goal was given insufficient weight when the Pickering site was With regard to the ques- gwau’ WORKS IN A DRAWER Color TV from Sweetheart Peter York Home T.V. 306 Bayvlew Ave. (Plaza) 889-1646 - 884-4165 GET YOUR LA 59“ REUPHOLSTER YOUR tion "Is this not suitable be-. cause of total environmental effect?" The following argu- ments are submitted: ‘ NTIA Pickering will oc- Cupy prime agricultural land that is disappearing from Ontario much faster than was previously thought. The airport threatens the coherence of the community of Markham. ‘Fwestone s 4-WHEEL lO-POINT DRUM BRAKE RELINE ‘Fwestone $ FRONT WHEEL DISC BRAKE SERVICE firestorm FRONT WHEEL ALIGNMENT AND STATIC BALANCE non NIBIILAIIS sou: 3 s ' *‘ ‘ BALLS FOR Tough vulcanrxed cover lively Polyouladiene centre l. 3 2‘ 1. Pads only ow mumm>w We'll repack outer front wheel bearings, adjust brakes and give a complete safety inspection. Includes Toyota and Dalsun. Tolslon bars. disc brakes and air conditioning extra. 0804 ill 5 NOTICE 0|: CHANGES MARKHAM inns" SYSTEM Effedive April 29, I974 ROII'I'E 2 20 - 40 MINUTE SERVICE Bayvnew Yonge 81 Bayvrew John 81 Steeles 81 Royal Westbnd Orchard Southbnd Southbnd Extension of service on Romfield Circuit and Laureleaf Road. A.M A.M AM 555 559 610 6 7 622 630 63“ 642 650 657 732 710 “'17 ‘2: 730 737 ‘42 750 757 802 810 8‘17 822 830 837 842 850 857 932 '910 '91? 92: ‘ ‘950 ‘95? 1002 1 ‘1030 “1037 "04: '1 “.110 1117 H.231 1 '1150 1157 ‘202 PM. PM PM '1230 '1237 1242 1 110 .117 ~122 ' 150 ‘ 157 202 230 ‘ 237 242 ‘ 310 '317 322 ‘ 350 ' 357 43: 4‘10 477 422 430 43‘ 44: 450 45‘ 532 51C 5:“: 5:: 530 53‘ 5 2 550 ‘ 55‘ 6:2 610 61‘ 622 6:3 6:7 64: 650 Ave. innâ€"2.9m pm“ John S. Romfield Baywew Bayvrew Bayvrew 651 Rummy-.54 0.1.; 9 MSSMORE ROUTE 3 30 - 60 MINUTE SERV Extension of service from Kennedy Rd. and Steeles Ave. to Victoria Park Ave. and Steeles Service provided north on Highway 48 to 16th Ave. and south on Peter St. ICE map. Rd. Kennedy Rd. Rd. TIMETABLES WILL BE AVAILABLE AFTER APRIL 18th AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES: BANKS, POST OFFICES, MARKHAM BUSES, TOWN OF MARKHAM MUNICIPAL OFFICES AND TRAVELWAYS BUS LINES AS LOW - SOFA AND CHAIR IN TOP QUALITY FABRIC $12.95 .36... Richmond Heights Centre Richmond Hill 0 884-4401 Open Thursday a; Friday Evenings 'til 9 pan. True the drums on all four wheels. Are the new linings for perfect braking Contact. Check the master cylinders. Check the wheel cylinders. Check brake shoe return springs. Check brake fluid lines. Add premrum quality brake "Uld. Check and repack ouler from wheel bearings. Road test your car. . 30.000 mile guarantee. as If your car needs these additional services We reface Iolors at $8.95 each. 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