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Your are right, considering that all of the federal highway funds are being spent on new or rebuilt highways and freeways. The simple repaving jobs are being done with state funds. The airlines are having problems running in the black. As we watch how the airlines prune down in number this is a good time to put a moratorium on airport spending. Why spend more for airports, terminals and runways, when we are watching the airlines getting smaller, not larger? Use these funds over a period of ten years to build a proper high speed rail network. We could connect San Diego to Los Angeles and Chicago to Minneapolis, some 1,000 miles of a total of 10,000 miles of new passenger only railroad tracks. After we have built 10,000 miles of new high speed railroad tracks, we could end the moratorium on airport spending. One thing is for certain, after the new lines are built, the feds might find it hard to spend $12 billion annually for airports....More than likely high speed rail will win the passenger wars, at least in the short distances (less than 300 miles), and give the airlines a contest for the medium distance routes (less than 600 miles).
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