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By Cityjoe (anonymous) | Posted February 07, 2011 at 02:30:55 in reply to Comment 59360
I used to live on the S.E. corner of Eglinton Ave., & Renforth Drive, which is less that 1/4 mile from Lester B.. I can tell you that things are much better now than they were 30 or 40 years ago. Planes are quieter, & some restrictions on landing & engine testing (which is the worst kind of torture!)have been imposed on the airport.
At one point, nearly every window in our house was cracked from vibrations of planes landing, but mostly engine testing, which shakes your house like a terrier on a rat, for maybe an hour at a time. Plates & pictures rattled on the walls, & furniture actually moved. It is impossible to sleep through that.
Standing on the ski hill @ Centennial Park, you will have a plane fly almost directly overhead nearly every minute during the day. Not pleasant!
On days with a temperature inversion, everyone's back yard smelled like jet fuel. A thick coating of gray gunk coated everything that was left outside, & you couldn't really hold a normal conversation in the back yard for the noise of planes, the 401 hwy, 427 hyw, Eglinton Ave. & a large number of roads built or widened to accommodate the airport.
Airport run off from de-icing poisoned the 2 ponds at Centennial Park, Mimico Creek, & Etobicoke Creek, until precautions were finally taken.
Lester B. P. has 3 terminals, & air traffic can be landed at the the northern most terminal (3?) which is toward the Malton Industrial area @ Airport Rd.& Derry Rd., during the night.
Toronto's airport is probably Busier than Hamilton's at all times, but it has more options, & terminals. It also has many more people living very close to it who have a right to have a reasonable quality of life & be able sleep at night. So do people in Hamilton.
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