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Make it really easy to get to the airport. Pro: Airport parking is an expensive hassle, thus people are always taking cabs or asking for rides. Airports are fa
by fortes 17y ago
Make it really easy to get to the airport.
Pro: Airport parking is an expensive hassle, thus people are always taking cabs or asking for rides. Airports are far from city centers, and often inconvenient to get to.
However, it's probably not enough traffic to sustain an entire system, but I think it makes for a good first step in a new system.
The other thing is that we either need to:
1) Stop subsidizing air & road travel so much
2) Subsidize public transit in order to make it more competitive with road / air travel
#1 is politically infeasible ... but perhaps #2 is as well. Maybe public transit support could be billed as a way to get everyone else off the road?
- lionhearted 17y ago> 1) Stop subsidizing air & road travel so much Huh, I get that road travel is subsidized, but never heard about air. Do you know how that shakes out? Federal government or localities building airports, or providing some sort of free coordinating services, or some such? I had always just kinda assumed that airlines were renting or leasing airport space and covering most of the costs from it, but that was just me idly guessing.
- fortes 17y agoI'm not super-educated here (learned from a friend of mine), but here are some links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Air_Service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Air_Service (about $74/passenger subsidy for small airports in rural areas. http://www.dot.gov/bib2009/htm/FAA.html http://www.dot.gov/bib2009/htm/FAA.html -- the FAA 2009 budget, includes: $9.7 billion for Air traffic organization $2.1 billion for Safety & Operations $2.8 billion for Airport grants