would be nice if the Caltrain could also take that alternative route...or stop blowing its horn every 100ft.

Nowhere in this article did the author bother to explain what Surf Air is. And now I'm being asked to pay to read the Voice?

Is that another of the Town-Square complaints about a point the reader could have looked up online with less effort than it took to complain here? Town Square seems to attract such comments.

As you know from the byline, this is an article from the Voice's sister paper in Menlo Park. Around Menlo Park and Palo Alto, airplane noise and Surf Air have been hot ongoing topics, familiar already to many of the readers for whom the article was originally written. The rest of us (mostly) know how to use Google or Wikipedia.

It is plain poor journalism not to define in the first paragraph an entity about which the entire article concerns. Readers are supposed to supplant poor writing with Wikipedia searches? If it is not pointed out, how is the author going to learn to improve? The editor obviously is of no help.