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Airplanes and September 11th

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It annoys me that it’s hard to get anywhere in the wilderness – and be free of one industrial noise – be stuck listening to the noise of airplanes flying overhead. ✈While motor vehicles, generators and bicycles are prohibited in wilderness areas, no such prohibition exists for airplanes flying overhead.

One of things that most sticks out in my mind after September 11th was when they grounded the planes during that two day period after the tragedy.🔕 It made the sky quiet, it eliminated the jet trails that we’ve all just gotten to assume are normal. September 11, 2011 was a particularly clear day, and without airplanes going out, it made the sky even bluer and purer.

I don’t know if it’s practical to pass a law making wilderness areas no-fly zones.🛬 Certainly, that would get a lot of opposition from the airplane industry. Another option might be banning airplanes on holidays or Sundays, but that would also get the druthers of the traveling public who has places to go, relatives to visit, business to conduct. But it would be nice to give the air a break from the constant noise and pollution from air planes.

Don’t riot.

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Don’t riot.

The NYS Department of Transportation hates competition at destruction of perfectly good buildings, wildlife habitats and historic sites.

NPR

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Pandemic Emptied Big City Office Buildings, But For How Long? : NPR

For cities, as well as their tax bases, empty commercial real estate presents a crisis still looming. The pandemic hit the ground floor first, knocking out smaller shops and restaurants. Trouble may not creep upstairs to the office floors until six to nine months later, according to Victor Calanog, head of commercial real estate analytics at Moody's Analytics REIS.

Because office tenants tend to hold longer leases, averaging around 10 years, Calanog says, they take the dramatic step of breaking a lease to cut costs only if a downturn is prolonged enough to justify it.