Modiin-Watch unveiled this week that the Modiin Municipality submitted on December 8th an additional request to Bagatz to issue a court order to cease the night flights, and that Bagatz once again rejected this request over a week ago, just like it rejected last August the Modiin Municipality’s first request for a court order.
From the wording of the Bagatz decision it seems as if the Modiin Municipality attempted to use the strike of the State’s attorneys to its advantage.
The end of December will mark six months to the flights over Modiin, and our impression is that Bagatz is not persuaded by the arguments presented by the Modiin Municipality and that Bagatz does not intend to issue a court order to forbid the flights.
The repeated refusal of Bagatz to take any practical steps to stop the night flights is in sharp contrast to the Modiin Municipality’s claims that Bagatz supposedly accepted all its claims.
On a more positive note, it appears that the work on the runways is proceeding faster than planned, and the next phase of the work which will involve closing down runway 30 used for the flights over Modiin may take place as early as July 2011, instead of the end of 2011 as originally projected.
The Modiin Municipality hid from the public the fact that it issued an additional request for a court order and that this request was rejected, and it issued a press release only after this fact was unveiled by Modiin-Watch. The Modiin Municipality also unabashedly claimed that the progress on the runway works is thanks to its legal efforts with Bagatz, while the truth of the matter is that this progress is due to the large financial bonuses for early completion that the Airport Authority placed as part of its contracts with its contractors – contracts that were negotiated and signed long before the planes started flying over Modiin.
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