I would estimate the FAA has spent something like 10- to $15 million on the several east coast airspace redesigns, each one shelved because some other group said, oh, no, we are going to be impacted by the noise or we don't like these approaches or something else has come up in the meantime.
Oberstar discusses the financial waste due to delays in airspace redesigns caused by stakeholder objections.
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