News from the Office of Representative Walter F. Timilty

Last week, State Representative Walter F. Timilty attended a Boston City Council Transportation Subcommittee hearing in the Council Chamber at Boston City Hall. The sole purpose of this subcommittee hearing was to examine the flight-plan that has been foisted upon certain parts of the City of Boston. However, given the dynamics of modern commercial aviation, flight-plans affect many communities. Unfortunately, the Town of Milton is one such community. Specifically, Milton, like parts of our capital city, has been unjustly affected by an arbitrary flight-plan, imposed upon our region.

Given the grossly unfair dynamics, in regards to the Town of Milton, that are associated with this egregious flight-plan, Representative Walter F. Timilty attended this subcommittee hearing. Graciously, City Councilors Michelle Wu, Stephen Murphy, Tim McCarthy and Josh Zakim invited Representative Timilty to address the hearing. Seizing upon this opportunity, Timilty stood in concert with his fellow Miltonians, in attendance, and offered remarks from the floor of the City Council Chamber. Present for Timilty’s remarks were officials from the Massachusetts Port Authority and, of course, the general public. In these remarks, Timilty cited the common cause that, the Town of Milton and the City of Boston share in opposition to a wrongful flight plan that has generated continued negative ramifications for both communities. Accordingly, in his continued remarks, Timilty urged a united-front, with city officials from Boston and the Town of Milton, in the ongoing campaign that must be waged in order to discard what is an unbearable situation brought upon us by civil aviation authorities.

In the aftermath of the hearing Timilty stated, “I am, sincerely, grateful to the Boston City Council for providing a forum in which we were able to jointly bring scrutiny to bear on what is a tremendously inequitable flight-plan. Given the regional nature of the issue, which has exacerbated both air and noise pollution, we must stand together in order to jettison what is an unsustainable situation.”