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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Mar 2013
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Our great capitalist society...
In article ,
says...
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 07:43:04 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:
In article ,
says...
On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:05:11 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
Most of our airports are obsolete and our interstate highway system is
crumbling, along with our power grid.
So spend a few billion fixing the airports and interstates, not a
trillion on trains nobody will ride.
Who told you that no one will ride high speed trains in all of the major
corridors?
I have said many times, in a few highly traveled corridors, trains
make sense but that is not 99% of the country.
How does air travel make any more sense than a high speed train???
BTW I am not sure which airports are obsolete. Ours is brand new and
Florida takes pretty good care of their roads. Maybe that is because
they don't siphon highway tax money off for ill thought out mass
transit schemes.
Funny, highly government airports are okay with you, as are tax dollars
to expand roads to them, but subsidized high speed rail is bad.....
What "subsidy". Airlines pay the transit authority to run the airport.
Concessionaires pay for the right to operate there.
The airlines themselves are independent corporations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Air_Service
Rail lines need a direct subsidy, just to keep the train moving.
As do planes.
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