(CNN) -- On Monday, the FAA denied charges that it had altered a runway protection zone around New York's LaGuardia airport to accommodate a controversial New York City garbage transfer center.
A coalition of aviation safety advocates, Friends of LaGuardia, which is suing the FAA, New York state, and New York City to block construction of the large facility, alleges the FAA shortened the protection zone around the airport's eastern-most runway so there would be room for the construction site.
"Literally, the lives of travelers and the lives of New Yorkers are at stake. This is a colossally stupid idea to locate a city garbage transfer station on the edge of an airport runway," said Randy Mastro, attorney for Friends of LaGuardia and litigation director at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. "FAA altered in the dead of night what it considers to be the danger zone around the airport."
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Destinations - August 16, 2011 - 7:33am by btsocial
(CNN) -- On Monday, the FAA denied charges that it had altered a runway protection zone around New York's LaGuardia airport to accommodate a controversial New York City garbage transfer center.
A coalition of aviation safety advocates, Friends of LaGuardia, which is suing the FAA, New York state, and New York City to block construction of the large facility, alleges the FAA shortened the protection zone around the airport's eastern-most runway so there would be room for the construction site.
"Literally, the lives of travelers and the lives of New Yorkers are at stake. This is a colossally stupid idea to locate a city garbage transfer station on the edge of an airport runway," said Randy Mastro, attorney for Friends of LaGuardia and litigation director at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. "FAA altered in the dead of night what it considers to be the danger zone around the airport."
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