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Originally Posted by fredinno
If they use up that land for general industrial use, they'll have to all be demolished if YVR needs a new runway, or they'll have to reclaim into the bank/Iona Island.
Opening Sea Island up like this is basically declaring that we have no need for new runways for the next 50-100 years. Building into the Banks is going to be a political and environmental nightmare...
... It would make more sense to open up the ALR land north of YVR and reclaim the area between Iona and Sea Island- this would be way more land and is not designated for future expansions of any runways. Also, a FN tribe owns some land there...
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If expanding into the banks hurts the environment, I suspect that
filling in part of the river entirely is dead on arrival for the same reasons. Besides; the
planned third runway is likely more useful for YVR because the can use all three at the same time; there's a good chance parallel runways would halt service on the inner one while planes taxi between the outer one and the airport.
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