Statement: “Projected take-offs and landings are expected to increase to as much as 260,000 a year by 2015 — 30 percent more than today,” the San Diego Airport Authority said in a brochure explaining the need for a new airport, which became a failed ballot initiative in 2006.
Analysis: The warnings sounded dire. Even worse, they sounded certain. For five decades, politicians and studies had cried wolf about the inadequacy of San Diego’s one-runway, 661-acre downtown airport.
The Airport Authority's Exaggerated Warning: Fact Check
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