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Sample Letters
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Safety Letter to Governor Perry
Too Fast, Not Enough Information
Just What Kind of International Flights are We Expecting
Why Locate an Airport on Two Farm to Market Roads?
To the Editors of…
Bastrop County Commissioners…
Elgin and Bastrop City Council members…
And assorted others.
The Central Texas Airport (CTA), with the blessing of the Bastrop County Commissioners, is planning on building a private airport and a massive office/industrial complex at the intersection of FM’s 969 and 1704. The CTA estimates that they’ll have about 250 takeoffs and landings a day. They also estimate that the office/industrial complex will employ more than 40,000 people.
These tens of thousands of people will be driving on two-lane, farm to market, no shoulder roads, two times a day. Has anyone taken the time to count or consider the number of cars that will travel on these already dangerous roads? Ten thousand? Twenty thousand? Thirty thousand?
Serious traffic accidents are all but guaranteed. Unnecessary deaths, most unfortunately, will be a tragic probability. Who will take responsibility for the accidents? Who will be accountable if or when people meet untimely deaths? Or will these just be treated as collateral damage from the cost of doing business?
The CTA and its office/industrial complex are excellent ideas that will bring jobs to Bastrop County. But why not be logical and build it on accessible, empty land along Highway 71, where a four-lane, divided highway is already equipped to handle the traffic? Wouldn’t this be considerably safer and a much more rational solution. If we did not get this airport built, then there would no need for any solutions at all…This airport will create problems for the entire county government and the residents of this area for years and years to come… We all suspect with good reason that a bridge will be built across the Colorado River connecting Pope Bend Road North to FM 969 to ease the traffic flow.. We already had the Hyatt Resort forced on us and they are now using what is a county residential road for all their service trucks, vendors, employees, special events.. Pope Bend Road North cannot handle the traffic that this airport would bring.. Then the County would have to rebuild, make a new road access to the bridge…
Jim D. Reid
456 Pope Bend Road North
Cedar Creek, Texas 78612
Resident on this road for 61 years—
512-629-5028
Hey, that’s mighty generous of you to suggest moving the proposed airport out of your backyard into someone else’s. How about not having the airport at all? It’s really not needed now that Austin Executive Airport is about to open their longer runway which will handle the same clientele.