Email

Print

Hon. Paul Thompson, PUP Senator
"Why is there such urgency to get this motion through in one sitting? Who benefits from this project besides the contractor and the land owners whose land will be acquired? I can bet there's some preferred persons in the mix. How many miles will they save when driving to reach the airport as oppose to the Boom/Hattieville road? Why is this priority when there are other pressing matters affecting the lives of many of our citizens? Why is this more priority than say the paving of the coastal road? or building some low income housing? In my view, this is irresponsible, how can you be executing these massive projects and not reveal to the public the reason for such projects? And finally, how this impact the close to 175,000 people and you will may be asking who those people are, well I'll tell you now. These people are the people other the public align."

Hon. Godwin Hulse, UDP Senator
"The honorable senator from the opposition raised a number of questions but clearly the benefits of a project like this, I think in a way, are self-evident. In fact I did hear during the debate of the house that the Leader of the Opposition said that in fact this was a concept of theirs back then. And it can be argued what is a priority and what is not a priority. The fact of the matter is the corridor from the international airport, everybody know, is a very tight one. The Philip Goldson highway really by now should have been a four lane highway if land and space was available to be able to move. Coming in from that area is very difficult in the morning. We're now up to 7 or 8 airlines coming in. that will expand and as a consequence we do need to have a corridor to move people, goods and services coming in at a faster and at a different pace."