Letters to the Editor
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Subsidized
The railways system of America is very hold and heavily funded by congress just to keep it at it's level today.
And the airlines aren't? They don't pay for the airports or the air traffic control system, you know. They also don't pay to keep troops stationed all over the middle east to protect the oil they depend upon. Chuck those costs into the equation and with that kind of money you could lay down high speed rail from coast to coast.
Runways and specifically airports are small compared to the amount of building and costs required to build out more rail systems.
And where are you going to find the land to build an airport in the middle of our most congested areas, like Los Angeles? Oh, that's right - you AREN'T going to find any single parsel of land that large. The best you could hope to do is build an airport way out on the fringe, and then spend BILLIONS in taxpayer money on top of that connecting it with massive freeways. So now instead of sitting at LAX waiting an hour and a half for your plane to take off, you'll get to drive 2 hours in heavy traffic to an airport out in bum***k Egypt. The only people benefiting from this scheme are Islamic terrorists, as we'll now be stuck spending even more money on imported oil.
we don't like government owned transportation companies (Amtrak), or taxpayer subsidized transportation systems
We don't? Gee, that's funny - I could swear I once drove around on a massive, government-built, government-maintained interstate road system. It must have been a dream . . .