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Nettavisen editor Gunnar Stavrum says that we want to look good and that it is crazy to build a new airport in Bodø.
By Rolf Kåre Jensen, Bodø Municipality Councilor
This is a comment. It is the attitude of the writer that is expressed.
For Stavrum and other southern and northern media experts:
In any case, a new airport must be built in Bodø.
The old airstrip crumbles from below and has not many years to live.
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New airport and district
Despite the complexity of the project, planning for a new airport and a new district in Bodø is well advanced and in great progress.
The Municipality of Bodø, Avinor and Forsvarsbygg are together in this important community development project that will shape the city and the region for decades to come after the wrestling base leaves Bodø after 75 years.
The year 2020 is an important year for the project. Until the turn of the year, the bases will be completed so that the Bodø City Council, the Nordland City Council, Avinor and the state in the Storting in 2021 can make their final decisions on the project.
This means completing a blueprint for a new airport with total project costs, agreements between the parties on real estate transactions, and a clarified financing model that shows what each party will contribute.
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Of national importance
But it is also a great regional development project that is important at the national level.
Northern Norway is losing out compared to other parts of the country when it comes to inhabitants and jobs. An attractive and strong regional center is needed to slow down evictions and create a sense of well-being and faith in the future.
In the future, Bodø will be a powerful engine.
Progress on the project is important, and Avinor and the Bodø Municipality sent their recommendation to the government on which alternative to choose for a new airport in Bodø.
The Minister of Transport and Communications Knut Aril Hareide was very positive about the urban and community development project when he visited Bodø and was informed about the project.
This has been followed recently by several key politicians; among others Jonas Gahr Støre (AP) and Siv Jensen (FrP).
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Approved mileage
Alternative 1 (ie relocation 1000 meters to the west) adopted by the Government is a modern and well-functioning airport, which is also within a sustainable financial framework for the municipality of Bodø and Avinor.
The alternative also has the support of the Armed Forces, which will have their future needs for a contingency base covered within the area of a new airport.
In this phase, an adapted external quality assurance (provided by Holte Consulting) of the five alternatives that Avinor has studied has also been carried out. Initially, it was concluded that none of the alternatives was profitable from a socio-economic point of view, whereas the project had previously been considered profitable.
You can read more here: Quality assurance report
The municipality of Bodø, Avinor and others have been critical of some of the assumptions on which this analysis was based.
Among other things, which is based on:
- Much less demographic development than previously assumed. Bodø has historically had an annual average population growth over the past 20 and 50 years of more than 1.2 percent, which is well above the Statistics Norway average alternative used here.
- Social development and requirements for spatial planning different from those contained in national guidelines and local decisions.
- Not enough emphasis is placed on climate, environment and circular economy
- Includes costs that do not pertain to this assessment, including cleanup after Armed Forces activities after 70 years as a combat air base (is this a cost strictly speaking that pertains to Ørlandet’s choice of base?)
- Investment cost evaluations significantly higher than those used by Avinor with external consultants as a basis
– The project is profitable
The same consulting firm has now submitted an additional report, commissioned by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport and Communications, showing how different population growth affects socioeconomic profitability.
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With an average annual population growth of 1.15 percent, the project is profitable. This is in line with the actual population growth that Bodø has experienced over time.
Taking more into account the other conditions mentioned above, the project is clearly profitable from a socio-economic point of view.
Many things are going well in Bodø with Bodø / Glimt, Bodø as the European Capital of Culture, new city, new airport and more.
We tolerate critical comments and questions, but faulty fact-based criticism is worse to accept.
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