Dear President-Elect Obama:

“Quiet Rockland” is an organization based in Pearl River, New York that has been fighting the “Bobby” Sturgell FAA and Mary Peters USDOT for the past year-and-a-half. Our organization acts consonant with the interests of thousands of citizens in Rockland County, NY and elsewhere: 47,000 in the Town Of Orangetown, NY; 300,000 in Rockland County, NY; and 30,000,000 in the Northeast.

1. Quiet Rockland asks that, once sworn-in, you please cause your re-configured USDOT and FAA to immediately withdraw the US$53,500,000+ failed boondoggle of the prior administration known as the “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. It never made sense to put between 200-600 new jumbo-jets per day over densely-populated and minority-laden neighborhoods in Rockland County. We need environmental justice, a restoration of sensibility, and peace. We need cancellation of the Sturgell/Peters Airspace Redesign.

2. The American people including Quiet Rockland call for your Administration to please treat and pay all Air Traffic Controllers (ATCs) and Aviation Inspectors fairly; protect them from threat and harm; and listen to them. NATCA needs a real contract. The ATCS and Inspectors are the true aviation professionals. Their input is vital to the future of American aviation safety, and they have suffered to a wholly-unacceptable degree during the failed “Bobby” Sturgell FAA regime.

3. The American people including Quiet Rockland must have a federal government that restores, to quote Congressman Oberstar, a “Culture Of Safety” in aviation. An FAA “partnership program”, on the other hand, wherein the Agency abdicates its legally-mandated function as regulator and instead adopts a cozy economic pandering relationship unabashedly calling the airlines its only “customers” - is a grotesque, harmful, and abysmal dynamic, and an insult to the intelligence of the American people. The “customers” are, in point of fact, the passengers and the overflown people on the ground. Federal law requires consideration of both, a fact that the failed Sturgell aeromercantile FAA conveniently and consistently forgot.

4. The failed “Bobby” Sturgell FAA must immediately be re-populated with responsible federal officials for a change. We need government officials who tell us the truth.

5. Finally, we respectfully request that you please select a new FAA Administrator with ties to the Northeast who understands the complexities of this region and its airspace, and one who will carry out the 4-point agenda hereinabove.

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Saturday, November 29, 2008
Failed Bobby Sturgell FAA Threatens 30,000,000 With "Death By Airspace Redesign"
http://indictsturgell.blogspot.c...- threatens.html
John J. Tormey III, Esq. | Homepage | 12.13.08 - 5:59 pm | #