Friday, January 22, 2010

Not a great place for a crane...

La G planes and cranes don't mix
By BILL SANDERSON, NY Post

Bonehead construction workers erected a crane on a barge in the middle of Flushing Bay -- right in the path of planes headed for La Guardia Airport.

Luckily, no one was hurt in the Jan. 8 incident, although a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said some planes had to be diverted until the barge was moved.

FAA rules allow construction cranes near airports -- if they are kept safely away from flight paths.

The crane was being used to build a trash-transfer station in College Point, 2,000 feet across the bay from La Guardia's Runway 13/31.

Critics have said the trash-transfer station itself will pose an aviation hazard, since garbage draws birds, like the Canada geese that brought down US Airways Flight 1549 last year.

But the FAA and the Port Authority signed off on the city Department of Sanitation project. The city says the transfer station will be sealed tightly enough to keep birds away.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Another tale of woe from "beautiful", vibrant, bustling, suck-cessful downtown Floo-Ching (LOL)!

Anonymous said...

They ought to use some cranes to dredge the Flushing creek....phew!

Whatever it is those Asians are eating these days...their "effluent" has become more "fragrant" than past generations of residents.

You can view the chunky stuff that's caught in the "floatables net" strung across the creek...ugh!

I thought that multi-million dollar retention tank was supposed to take care of the sewage problem.

BOONDOGGLE!

C'mon Toby Stavisky & John Liu...how about kayaking or skin diving in the "cleaned up" creek like you promised us!

Anonymous said...

Whoops...I hope Muss' "Sky View Parc" development isn't directly in La Guardia's flight path!

Anonymous said...

Whoops...I hope Muss' "Sky View Parc" development isn't directly in La Guardia's flight path!


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It is, and in fact, i think the building actually violates the glide-path envelope if im not mistaken.

Homer Simpson said...

D'OH!

D. Truth said...

Anonymous said...
Whoops...I hope Muss' "Sky View Parc" development isn't directly in La Guardia's flight path!


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It is, and in fact, i think the building actually violates the glide-path envelope if im not mistaken.



You are correct!

As seen on Queens Crap 7/5/09:

http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2009/07/skyview-parc-violates
-faa-height.html

Anonymous said...

Whatever it is those Asians are eating these days...their "effluent" has become more "fragrant" than past generations of residents.
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Excellent! Asian people's SH*T is worse for the environment than "normal peoples" SH*T! A new one even for Queens Crap...I love it!

Queens Crapper said...

It was a dumb comment, but where did he say it was worse? Just smells different.

Anonymous said...

Instead of discussing how serious a matter this is for all the people who use LGA and live nearby, several assholes here just spout racist comments and the editor seems to just slough it off. Hey Christine, this is why despite your good readership levels, no one can ever take you too seriously. You live in Queens, not the Deep South in the 1950s. Grow a set and boot these morons or are you just one of them too?

Queens Crapper said...

a) My name is not "Christine".

b) I am the moderator, not the editor. Learn the difference.

c) There is nothing racist in what I posted here.

d) There is nothing racist in the comments posted here. And there is only one comment that some loser took umbrage with here, not "several assholes".

e) This site was never meant to be taken seriously, that's why there's a cartoon Unisphere frowning on a toilet as the mascot. But I guess some people do take it seriously. Hmmm....

f) Get a life.

Anonymous said...

I luv deliberately (?) placed (tongue in cheek) "dumb" comments like "Anon #2's".

They stimulate blog functions!