For more than a year Atlantic Flyer has been running ads inviting folks to Bader. A budding Young Eagles program has flown a few dozen local kids and made some fast friends for aviation. Things have been turning around. But Lautenberg wants to kill a goose that could lay golden eggs for Atlantic City if given half a chance. Bader is located in one of the fastest growing urban regions of the State.
Most approaches are over water and away from populated areas.
Its location on a peninsula is far enough away from residential development that it poses little hazard and aircraft noise is minimized. And it is within walking distance of many Atlantic City attractions. If Bader closes, however, whatever remains will be a permanent memorial to Senator Lautenberg's shortsightedness. We hope he can be made to see the light. The really nasty thing about all this, however, is that the Senator's treachery transcends little Bader.