Ontario Is Better Site for Airport Than El Toro

Re “Ontario Can Be O.C.’s Airport,” June 17:

John Walter Kraus’ article is so far the best, if not the ultimate, solution to the John Wayne Airport-El Toro airport controversy I’ve read since 1994.

His detailed proposal, simple and practical implementation with substantive reasoning, is just fantastically credible.

It should be required reading by members of the El Toro Reuse Planning Authority, Airport Working Group and their affiliates.

Sam Castelo

Irvine

Kraus is to be commended for his commentary.

It has amazed me that so much taxpayers’ money from both sides has been poured into lobbying and advertising and slick mailing campaigns and no time seems to have been spent in thinking.

Both Ontario and Riverside want international airports, and neither Irvine nor Newport Beach does. Moreover, for decades the truly great cities of the world have refused to build airports in high-density housing communities.

Instead, their leaders have shown vision, and now fast rail takes the passengers and their luggage to airports outside the cities in much less time than one can drive the already overcrowded freeways to LAX or Ontario or San Diego.

When will we grow up, cease our parochialism and internecine battles and cooperate to find the best solution for the citizens, for business and especially for future generations?

Iryne Black

Newport Beach