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The runways at Green are substandard and too short even if nonstop flights to the West Coast are not in the immediate future. Planes often stop today with maximum braking and roaring reverse thrust to stop before the pavement ends. Likewise, takeoff requires "pedal to the metal" full throttle to lift off from runways built for the Electras and Convairs of yesteryear. Factor in poor weather, slippery conditions and the parameters tighten up still more. This project should have been completed years ago for longer flights to whatever destination, never mind just the West Coast as well as for proper loading and safe operation of flights Green has right now. Should we tell business executives here in Rhode Island to just and those that may be looking from the outside at this state for future development to, as the author suggests to "just drive take the train or bus to Logan"? They might as well move their businesses there as well and accelerate the withering of Rhode Island. NIMBYS, indeed.

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