1.<There is just one landing strip in Dabolim, and the same strip has tobe crossed by planes for parking. Incidently, even there is a roadpassing through that strip, and cars and bikes also cross that stripbetween landings of two planes. :-)I have witnessed even a 45 minuteswait before getting parking for the plane.> [Samir Kelekar]
The crossing of the Dabolim runway by people and vehicles is due to the Naval premises on either side. There seem to be two such points. If one of them is given up then the apron for aircraft parking can be increased and congestion over the air reduced. 2.<Do you know that a city called Hosur which is in Tamil Nadu is much closerto Electronic City of Bangalore IT corridor than the current airportis ? Jayalalitha had grand plans to develop Hosur into an IT city, butshe lost the elections. If a good airport comes in Hosur, no one from Electronics City wouldwant to go to the new Bangalore airport, which is about 3 hours minimumfrom there. Hosur is just half an hour from Electronic city.> There is the rule against airports coming up within 150 km of the new one. This airport would run up against it. Unless the interpretation is that the rule stops at the state boundary. The same thing applies to Dabolim and the rumoured airport at Sindhudurg in Maharashtra. All this has to be clarified by the Goa government which is pre-occupied by everything else other than the state's long term future. People also are least bothered even to discuss (only argue).
