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.”
Many thanks to Representative Timilty for supporting Milton residents’s efforts and for partnering with Boston City Councillors to work to reduce the pollution and noise problems from Milton’s unfair burden of jet and prop plane arrivals and departures. With 4 concentrated flight paths (RNAV) over our Town, Milton needs all the help it can get. TMM Precinct 7
As a former resident of Milton whose home was under the direct landing flight path to Logan Airport’s Runway 4 Right ( 4 R) I want to thank Representative Walter Timilty for his continued support for those Milton residents who lives are directly affected by the thousands of over flights per month that inflict noise and jet fuel pollution on those Milton communities.
It is not an easy or a popular fight to take on the politically entrenched MassPort or the indifferent to community needs of the FAA but Walter Timilty has been willing to take on this battle for some time.
Whether we live under the present danger of these over flights or not it is the civic and moral responsibility of all of us to insure the safety, health and well being of those residents whose daily lives are adversely affected by the intransigence if not greed of both MassPort and the FAA. The bottom line is not how many landing fees MassPort can bring into Logan. The bottom line is the degree to which those agencies allow negative quality of life changes to continued as they expand Logan Airport far beyond its territorial limits.
I trust Representative Timilty will continue the good fight until there is a favorable resolution to the dangers that have been inflicted on many over the skies of Milton.