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Originally Posted by Azndragon837
Just a correction: the Cardinals Stadium that was to be built near Priest Drive and Washington Street in Tempe was actually under the direct flight path for the North Runway, not in-between. If you look at the location on Google Earth, and line it up with the runway, planes will have actually flown over the stadium.
-Andrew
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I'm well aware of the controversy. The last location for the stadium in Tempe was not the intersection of Washington and Priest, but rather the sw corner of Washington and Center Drive, where the Trillium apartment complex is now.
If you draw an east/west axis thru the north runway, you would see that the stadium sits south of that axis. As a matter of fact, it would be offset (and as far from) the east end of the north runway as Chase Field is from the west end of the north runway.
The only thing that got the stadium moved was KTAR's now infamous stunt, that sent an audio engineer to record the sound of airplanes as they flew over the Preist/Washington intersection. Those microphones were obviously turned up. If anyone stands at that intersection, the plane noise is a complete non-issue. That stunt embarrassed the Maricopa sports authority, and forced them to reconsider the site. That stunt also pissed me off to no end....