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🛩️ Airbase Transition: Addressing F-35 Noise Concerns in Tucson
6 min readNov 22, 2024
- “The key thing is we need to get the numbers. We need to get good solid input because right now there’s disagreement amongst the mayors.” — Ted Maxwell on the importance of public feedback for the RTA Next plan
- “I don’t have any issues with the evolution of this process. I know it’s going to come with some headaches. I know people have major concerns about the sound variations of the F-35, but I think some of those can be quelled.” — Paul Cunningham on the F-35 transition at Davis-Monthan
- “If we were put to put some skin in the game with RTA, the region would, we could also probably partner with the Air Force and along golf links, you could fly over at, say, Craycroft and Swan and then maybe have some type of roundabout or some type of traffic, does not properly traffic design, endurance at Wilmot. And you could basically go from Wilmot to downtown at Broadway and Park under no stoplights, zero.” — Paul Cunningham’s proposal for a new crosstown corridor
- “I’m never going to support a bypass for. I’m on record for that, which is spending good money after bad. We need to widen the I-10, where we lose commerce, and it’s horrible for our desert. That’s what makes Tucson great.” — Paul Cunningham opposing an I-11 bypass
