On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:44:26 GMT, Larry Dighera
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:31:55 GMT, Don Tuite
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 01:42:12 GMT, Larry Dighera
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On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:16:11 -0800, "Peter Duniho"
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While many Americans lack the knowledge to
see it this way, airports are just as important an element of the public
transportation infrastructure as roadways and waterways, both of which are
readily acknowledged as worthy of public monies.

When SATS* is eventually implemented, municipal airports will become
indispensable. But there won't be any place left to build them,
because the city governments chose to close them and build strip
malls. :-(

If the airport's a better economic deal for the city than the mall,
it'll be eminent domain and bring on the bulldozers. Stuff gets torn
down all the time for freeways.

We can hope.

But do you think there might be a little opposition to siting an
airport within the residential zone that has now been permitted to
surround the mall? Or would the municipality displace those residents
too. Can you imagine the EIR involved in reestablishing an airport in
an urban area today? Tomorrow? :-(

Actually, I see them being sited as part of new industrial parks.
Bye-bye more farmland, but it's only a matter of time before American
agribusiness goes whole-hog (*especially* hog farming) for outsourcing
production overseas. (Like beef, seafood, fruits and most veggies are
not already produced largely abroad.)

Don