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WS….. Airports are required to be self funded by Federal Law. They charge rent and landing fees, they make money from concessions – any profit gets refunded to the carriers in the form of rent credits. This is a fuction of deregulation. If rail supporters were interested in having the system at least break even, they’d implement ticket taxes and facility fees to pay for it rather than empty my wallet.

DS

Great job too , on all your examples of what development was spurred because of LRT.

You would make a great lawyer & can surely convince a jury of anything.

I think it’s time to cut the USDOT off from the air traffic control business altogether. If the airlines really want an improved air traffic control system, they should be pushing for this alternative instead. LaHood has shown himself to be nothing more than a confused, angry old man who should be put out to political pasture. I’m sure there’s a lucrative consulting job out there for him at Parsons Brinckerhoff.

Please elaborate on the above sentence. Then compare subsidies paid to scheduled commercial airlines with the taxpayer dollars poured into Amtrak.

HSR has the ability to cut into some airline routes, esp those under 500 miles on the NE corridor; there is precedent for this concern from Europe.

I made no claim as to the current level of comparative subsidy, I merely drew attention to stimulus money (subsidy) going to HSR rather than, say, ATC modernization.

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you commonly accuse people of making crap up, without any backing & without understanding the content.

You just upthread made sh– up about my preferred travel modes. Without any backing & having zero knowledge of my travel habits. It is easy to understand your contentless content. It is bullsh–. You made it up to have play.

Not hard to understand your weak rhetoric at all.

DS

What was even “made up” about my my comment of you preferring public transit over & being “against” private mobility?

You continue to avoid questions about your assertions. CPZ just brought up the same question for to provide more info on gov expenses on airlines.

Most people disagree with Congressional pork such as that for the Jack Murtha airport, in Pennsylvania. Ted Stevens was awful too. It probably would be proper to tax airline tickets even more, but public transit has the largest subsidy, per passenger-mile & proportional, by far. Another big dif is that <4% use transit, about 90% of adults drive & a majority fly, annually.

> Airlines should be concerned about HSR because it bites into
> their subsidy pie and their bailout pie.

Please elaborate on the above sentence.

Then compare subsidies paid to scheduled commercial airlines with the taxpayer dollars poured into Amtrak.

Thank you , Scott, for yet again making sh– up.

At least the usual suspects are consistent in their lack of intellectual honesty!

DS