Opposition to El Toro Airport

Anti-airport letters to the Times contain propaganda that sounds as if it comes from one bad source. For instance in the Dec. 13 edition, Tristan Krogius of Monarch Beach said it is a fact the Millennium Plan is projected to create many more jobs countywide than an airport and six times the economic benefit by the year 2020. That is hardly a fact! It is closer to a pie-in-the-sky estimate perpetrated by anti-airport activists and refuted by experts who have studied both plans. There is a financial reason most business leaders, chambers of commerce, and unions support the El Toro Airport plan.

The next strategy of anti-airport people is to suggest Orange County residents use some other airport. They would prefer that to be John Wayne Airport, but only a few have the audacity to verbalize such hypocrisy. After all, how can you say we don’t want any noise and pollution in our backyard and then suggest other cities around JWA endure three times what they already have. Besides, they do not want it know an expanded JWA would adversely affect North County cities more. So they mention places like Riverside or other improbable sites.

What we all must realize is and-airport people will say and do most anything to stop El Toro Airport from happening. The fact they avoid is that our county desperately needs a bigger airport and El Toro is the most perfect solution to the dilemma.

ANGIE GALLAGHER, Costa Mesa