I just read the letter headlined “Denver nightmare” (Voice, March 20), in which Mr. Jim Bussen wrote about his experiences at the new Denver airport.
He says the closest hotel is 45 minutes away, cab fares average $50 to $60 dollars, and he also found it to be very disorganized and inconvenient. All the complaints may be valid, but Mr. Bussen fails to mention that air travelers in the Denver region don’t have a choice. Denver’s Stapleton Airport is already closed, but the Chicago area still offers Midway or O’Hare.
In all fairness and honesty, wouldn’t the thousands of air travelers that live south and southeast in places like Beecher, northern Indiana, Crete, Monee and Chicago Heights have the same right to complain of being forced to travel all the way into the already saturated Midway and O’Hare airports?
It appears that most complaints about Peotone come from people who don’t know or don’t want to know the facts. Gov. Edgar’s much-needed Peotone airport is not being designed to steal or siphon off frequent users of Midway or O’Hare; Peotone is being designed to accommodate FAA chief David Hinson’s projected air-traveler needs by the year 2015.
