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4 VIE WPOINT TRAINS by John Gellner The current debate over the second Toronto ,Airport in Pick- ering Township in a way reminds me of another, a f ow years ago, over the unification of the armed forces. There were then, and there are nov a number of valid technicai objections. Yet just like the opponents of uni- fication in the mid-sixties, the opponents of the Pickering Ar- port again base their case, in the main on emotionai issues-- this time on the old homes that wiii be destroyed, the pastoral landscape which will disappear. This touches oniy a limited number of people. What concerna ALL Canadians, because the tax money and the convenience cf us ail are involved, is sureiy the question whether the Airport as nov planned is justified on technical and economic grounds. Let me sav right awav that I doubt it is lustified. Malton is being developed te the point vhere, if it vere used oniy for international and domestic long range traffic, it should be big enough for as far- into the fut- ure as is possible to foresee. The pxobiem is to get eut cf Maiton short-range traffic, say te distances of up to 500 miles or thereabout, vhich now absorb more than one haîf of the Air- port9s capacity. Short range means short flying time. The shorter the hop the iess econo- mical it is te spend time on going to and from the Airpoxt, the dloser the latter should be to the city rapid transit system Neither Malton nor the contem- plated Pickering site meet this criterion. Malton and Pickering together are an abomination, since they are 37 miles from one another, vith the big city be- tveen them. Changing planes vould be as if one changed trains by leaving one in Hamil- ton and boarding the next in Toronto. Airports near the city centres are already vithin the realm of the acceptable. De Havilland of Canada has developed a quiet short take-off and landing air- craft, a QSTOL, the DHC-7. This is a 4e-seat airliner vhich needs only a 2,000 foot rurnray as against 10,000 te 12,000 foot runvays for the big jets - and a "noise footprintu enly one tenth as long. (The "footpx-int" is the area on the ground over vhich noise is spread by an air craft taking off and landing.) The DHC-7 couid thus operate, for instance, from Toot' Island Airport. Acces vouid be by subway, vhich vould have te be extended te enly one fuxther stop beyend Union Station, The objection will be raised that 48-seat airliners are net economicai. This may be true, though I vonder vhether such airliner. Our- great cities rise from oux- bread and fertile plains, bux-n down eux- cities and leave un- touched eux- faxmianda and the cities viii rise again.Destroy eux- farmiands and grass viii grew in the- streets of evex-y city in this nation. . ..William Jennings Bryan by John Trevithick M. Eng. In October 1964, the new Japanese Tokaido Line vas opened fer service draving world attention. The maximum speed was 130 miles per heur, or double the previous speed record in Japan. In the nearly 8 years of eperatien since, it has preved a highly efficient yet cempletely saf e means of transpertation,breathing fresh air into the wox-ld's railread business, vhich had tended te give vay te airways and auto- motive transportation. Using simple logic, it can be seen that if the already prevoen Tokaide-type of train were applied te the Teorente Montreal run, devntovn Toronto and down town Montreal would be less than three heurs apart. The newer Sanyo Line has increased the speed safely te 150 miles per heur, shortening the time factor even more. That is te say that by rail fi-on dovntewn Toi-ente te devntovn Mntreal vould be faster than by air. At present, over 25% of flights eut of Tex-ente go dix-ectly te Montreai. Coming Events GALA SPRINO FETIVAL involving entire airport aite Mother's Day Weekend May 13, and 14e -watoh for further information- QThursday, April 139 e p.m. Toronto, (place te be announced) The Tokaide uine has the present capability of trans- perting 89000 passengers hourly -- in compiete comfert and safety, and at a fraction of the cest in tex-ms of passen- gex- fax-es and envix-onmental damage. The px-jected figures of air travellers eut of Toronto in 1985 is 8 million annually. If the proportion travelling te and from Mntreal remains the same, it means there wili be 6,000 travelling daily betveen Montreal and Toi-ento. This ebvieuslyis eneugh te warrant a serious look at Tekaido type rail service. This look could be taken a step fuxther, for- ebviously the Ste. Scholastique airpert vith its 80,000 acres ceuld be sufficient vhen linked vith Tex-ente by fast efficient train service, te handie al the extra air traffic of Tex-nte. This would ebviate the need for a fuxther Toronto airport. Articles on this concept viii be forthcoming giving more detailed facts and views on feasibil ity. Tuesday, April 11, e p.m. Markham District High School ONTARIO - A place te stand or A place te land? Guest speakers: ~ Mr. Wallace Beat a u ~ -land economist on, eff ecta of an airport on land value Mr. Jim Crang# Architect - The Unexplored Option- "The Aquaportff PAVE OUR WORLD 9 IP DIýI j942n7102 o