02-24-2025, 04:03 PM
I can’t remember the exact details since best I can tell the project has just been paused for a few years. I believe they have the necessary land.
I don’t have a great sense of “flight path” changes. Nothing in terms of airspace (the Waterloo control zone is 5NM and wouldn’t change) but I assume all 4 runways would need updated and potentially new infrastructure for landing systems.
There are a couple of other complications too.
It involves noise and traffic changes. Lots of people get upset with that. Although they claim there isn’t much of a noise change. Not sure how realistic that is if you start landing bigger planes on each runway.
I believe it involves building in some sensitive areas like watersheds.
And it involves rerouting or doing something with Shantz Station road. Which might or might not be significant.
And then there is all the accompanying work like taxiways, drainage, fencing, maintenance paths, etc.
I don’t have a great sense of “flight path” changes. Nothing in terms of airspace (the Waterloo control zone is 5NM and wouldn’t change) but I assume all 4 runways would need updated and potentially new infrastructure for landing systems.
There are a couple of other complications too.
It involves noise and traffic changes. Lots of people get upset with that. Although they claim there isn’t much of a noise change. Not sure how realistic that is if you start landing bigger planes on each runway.
I believe it involves building in some sensitive areas like watersheds.
And it involves rerouting or doing something with Shantz Station road. Which might or might not be significant.
And then there is all the accompanying work like taxiways, drainage, fencing, maintenance paths, etc.