"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote:

...to fix the airlines?

High speed rail.

If you think the unions helped crap out the airlines, you should dig into
how they absolutely trashed the railroads.


The fact is, airline travel is not the answer for _mass_ transportation.
That is why efficiency (hub and spokes) has collided fatally with
practical limits (airport capacity and weather).

The trouble is, we have been too short-sighted for too long to correct the
situation. The cost to create the infrastructure to support HSR would
make even a congressman blanche.

Congresscritters NEVER blanche when it comes to spedning other peoples
money.

So we are stuck with automobiles, which are inneficient, and airlines,
which are unreliable.

Really?