To the Editor,

A very loud vociferation to Mayor Picozzi for speaking truth to power.

There is no doubt that RIAC is hedging its bets and hiding its true

intentions. By their refusal, according to the Beacon, to meet directly with our mayor over the last months says everything that has to be said.

Until Gov. McKee offered to host a much needed meeting between the parties involved, the only conversations were held by phone. By phone on

a major issue like this? Access to and from the airport? Quality of life

in Warwick? Safety on our roads? Sure, what have they to hide? Nah, not much.

The CEO of RIAC, Mr. Ahmed, would never talk to the mayor of the city of Warwick which hosts the state’s “international” airport? Unless through

his lawyers?  Aren’t we still Americans who can talk to one another?

Not at certain levels, apparently. Our mayor knows he is confronting power and money, while the owners of which care little for the quality of life in our little city of Warwick-By-The-Bay.

RIAC is supposedly a “quasi” public corporation. I have always wondered about the “quasi” part of that. Sounds a little squishy to me. RIAC

takes no public funds, OK, so it can do whatever it wants to do in the public’s “interest”, OK, but yet does it act solely nevertheless in the public interest? Hmm...basically it’s an entity which is not incorporated or otherwise legally established, but which functions as if it were a corporation “essentially” public (as in services rendered) although under private control. Yes, very squishy indeed.

At the moment, allowing trucks of all sizes which could be using Main Avenue, the Greenwood Bridge, and Post Road to access the airport, to and from, sounds like a nightmare. Making trucks use only the Airport

Connector makes perfect sense. Mayor Picozzi is spot on with that observation.

Can we fight “corporate”?  Yes, of course we can with a mayor like Mayor Picozzi. Bravo Frank!

BTW, the name given to our state’s airport years ago, Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport (and they left out Providence PVD?) is about as lame as a 3-legged donkey. How about Providence International Airport?

Oops! I forgot. These decisions were made at the “quasi” corporate level.

Jim Morgan

Warwick