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File photo: Trenton-Mercer Airport
A planned expansion of Trenton-Mercer Airport will result in only a few dozen extra flights a day over the next 15 years, Mercer County officials say. Opponents, however, pointing to four new taxiways and a much bigger terminal building, say that the county and the Federal Aviation Administration are planning a bigger expansion without saying so.
Almost five years after the first public meeting to discuss a new airport master plan, officials and community activists remain at loggerheads over whether an expanded airport will lead to a surge of new flights that would increase jet noise, worsen air quality and erode quality of life in west-central New Jersey and parts of eastern Pennsylvania.