To the Editor,

Do you ever park your car next to a space spewed with broken car window shards?  You can see that it's not a broken bottle but rather the remains of a car break-in. Whoa. Bad look. “I’ll never shop there again,” you might say.

That was my choice when picking up our daughter at RIAC’s T. F. Green International. We parked way in the back of the short-term parking lot because all spaces near the terminal were filled.  I'd never seen that lot filled before. And the broken window glass. I wondered if my car would be next.

So, when we got inside, I asked the nice man under the sailboat, a volunteer who always seems to be there, “Have you seen the broken glass in the short-term lot?”

He answered, “Yes. It's been there for three days."  He gave me a number to call the parking lot manager. I called. No answer. Called again the next day. No answer. So I called the executive secretary at RIAC. Nobody there either. Left a message. Called over the next two days. No response.

So, just to test things out, I called the parking manager number at Bradley International Airport that was posted on the Web. Yup. The guy picked right up. We had a gentle laugh together. We take off from Bradley a lot. It saves hundreds if you're going out west. T. F. Green is okay for Florida flights. But Denver or Arizona? Check out Bradley.

Now they have largely converted the short-term lot at Green into a handy overnight lot which offers a lower price than the big garages and is closer to the terminal. $24 per day. So those of us who still want to meet our guests at the bottom of the escalator have to walk by all the big pickups parked by the many folks off to Florida for vacation, etc.

They keep telling us that T.F. Green International is one of the wonders of the world. It's said to be eighth-best airport, or something like that. Yet now RIAC is planning to convert it into an international freight port. I hear FedEx wants to move most of its Boston Logan freight flights to PVD. And Amazon wants to build a major freight hub at the Airport Road site being abandoned by FedEx and UPS. It would be close to the new empty warehouse in the old cornfield.

And RIAC is asking our General Assembly to help pay for new roads needed to get the trucks in and out. The trucks can’t make the turns on the airport terminal loop. Nobody seems to care about the added flights that would be running all night long. Build the new road (and they will come, all right). We need more jobs at RIAC, the mayor says.  Apparently, noise is not an issue for the suits and politicians who live elsewhere.

I hear that morale is bad at Green. Big management turnover. Good people gone. Maintenance is off.

Bottom line: If you find yourself in the back of the short-term lot with broken glass all about, watch out!

Richard Langseth.

Warwick