It's So EASY The NEW East-West RWY Now it's 11/29 instead of 13/31 or 14/42   <--- Click picture for a larger view

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The PROBLEM - s

1. Upgrade the 18/36 runway for $9.8M or
2. Construct an E/W Runway  for $10.3M.

Council SAVED 1/2M$ and chose Option 1 and have been choosing the Cheap Option ever since.
Now, 23 years later, it's going to cost more than 200 times that amount to FIX this problem.
Numerous Master Plans were commissioned (at great Ratepayers expense) to find a Solution but Every Master Plan including 2006 still recommended the East-West Runway for the Long Term, and Council is STILL thinking of saving money in the SHORT TERM.
But the SHORT Term solution introduces Extra Problems regarding SAFETY and NOISE Pollution for North Marcoola and it still wouldn't SOLVE the Real Problem because the Runway (at 35m) would STILL be too Narrow.

ALSO;
By constructing the E/W Runways recommended in the Previous Master Plans (13/31 or 14/42 ) the NOISE Problem is simply transferred from North Marcoola to South Marcoola- which is UNACCEPTABLE.

ALSO;
By MOVING the Airport to Caloundra or Somewhere Else would also transfer the Noise to Somebody Else -
Which is Also UNACCEPTABLE.
Besides the COST would be ASTRONOMICAL. And all the Existing Established Aeronautical Industries would NOT want to move.

The SOLUTION

The New FOR SALE Sign Click Pic for a Closer Inspection

This is the Vacant Block on the Flight Path Click Pics for a Better View	Will Council MISS the Boat - AGAIN?

Will they wait till THIS And they will have LOST the LAST	turns into THIS? HOPE for a SAFE E/W Runway FOREVER?

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TOO LATE - The SEPTEMBER 2007 DECISION

Maroochy Council have voted on the 2006 Master Plan

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The DECISION The GOOD NEWS is - They are NOT planning to Extend the Existing N/S Runway 18/36 The BAD NEWS is -  It won't be built for another 15 Years and; It's the 13/31 Version which means Aircraft will still fly over Houses instead of the 11/29 Version which was OUR Preference which DIDN'T overfly ANY Houses But Hey! - 15 Years is a L O N G  Time  - That's another 2 Master Plans away (1 every 7 years) We will have had 4 changes in Administration by then.  Different Politicians will be in power. The present Bureaucrats will all be retired and replaced by the present Junior Staff or new recruits who won't remember this decision - or - won't feel obliged to be bound by it. AND The COST will have EXPLODED by a factor of X10 or X20 times the Present - Hell! -  Council can't afford the Present Cost even NOW  (Take a look at Past History) The ONLY way we will ever get an East/West Runway will be if the Other Sunshine Coast Councils help PAY the COST!  - And they have already REFUSED to do this; SO - The ONLY way it will EVER Happen is; The State Government SUCCEEDS in forcing the different Councils to AMALGAMATE and, they COMMENCE CONSTRUCTION IMMEDIATELY!

And why have they adopted the 13/31 location instead of our 11/29? The reason given is that  the 11/29 location infringes upon a newly created NATIONAL PARK. This is the SAME area that caught fire back in December 1991. It was and still is - nothing but a Peat Swamp.  That's why it caught fire in the first place. And it burned and smouldered underground for weeks afterwards. Does THIS sound like the kind of Area that should be preserved for future generations by being declared a National Park?     NOTHING even lives there except a few flea-bitten wallabies. But some know-it-all bureaucrat in his high-rise office in Brisbane has decided it IS. And so the E/W Runway must be located to overfly existing residental areas rather than disturb said wallabies (if they even exist).

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