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By: 24th October 2005 at 18:17 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Even if half the spots were closed Schipol would still have more official viewing spots than any other airport in Europe. I wish we could get some sensible people over here to organise working groups to work out the best way of making provisions for spotters without making the security situation worse as they have done at practically every UK airport with the possible exception of Manchester.
By: 25th October 2005 at 07:50 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-It really is a "Big Brother" society these days
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By: tenthije - 24th October 2005 at 17:54
The exact intentions of Schiphol remain unclear at the moment. I can speculate on places that would close, but will not do so.The annoyance to local people is, in my humble opinion, negligable. Most runways are far away enough from housing estates that they do not bother people. Can think of only two housing estates that might suffer. One of them is Rozenburg. A village whose inhabitants are slowly being moved anyway due to noise considerations. Only a fraction of the tiny vilage (a few dozen houses at best) are still inhabited. The other estate that might have reason to complain has a lot of spotters-traffic on a through road with few houses on that road itself. Not much to complain about either.
Road safety is hardly compromised either because the spots tend to be far away from main roads. Only two spots I can think of that has from time to dangerous situations. The approach to the Kaagbaan (where cars may not park anyway so moot point, police should enforce the rules they have rather then make new ones) and the taxiway to the Polderbaan. This in my opinion would be a valid point to close as there are indeed some dangerous situations from time to time.
Either way, probably things will work out fine. After all, Schiphol has said they do not intend to close these locations. And considering (most of) the spots are on public property they would have a hard time doing so anyway.