Court Sides With County On Runway Expansion
FT. LAUDERDALE (CBS4) - After battling for years over the best way to expand the runways at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, a federal appeals court has sided with Broward County over Dania Beach.
In a ruling issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the justices sided with the Federal Aviation Administration's recommendation (Proposal B1b) the airport's south runway should be expanded instead of building a parallel north runway (Proposal C1) which the City of Dania Beach and community activists preferred, according to the Sun-Sentinel.
According to an email sent from airport director Kent George "the Court stated "we have little difficulty finding that there was nothing arbitrary or capricious in the FAA's finding that Alternative C1 was not 'prudent.'"
In deciding their ruling the Court considered the safety implications of each proposal noting that C1 called for greater complexity for traffic controllers than the alternate and human error was the most common cause of aviation accidents.
Source: The Sun-Sentinel
