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Old 08-04-2012, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by raaaid View Post
is not this the reason for airports to be far from cities, maybe 30 km?
Airports were built outside cities for several reasons:
- they require a huge amount of land, hard to find in cities(and expensive)
- pollution and noise

Now, several decades later the airports are im the middle because the cities grew towards and around them.
The same is true for train stations btw.
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