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It is not so much the bailout, but the federal government funding for airports, terminals, runways, etc., etc. Amtrak barely got a $1 billion this year, whereas the airports received $12 billion. And this was before the feds bailed out the airlines.... If we had a MORATORIUM on federal airport funding for just 10 years, we would have a high speed rail network the envy of the world, some $120 billion worth. Which would build new passenger only double track (electrified) rail lines from the northeast corridor to Chicago, Chicago to Texas thru St. Louis and Kansas City, Texas to Jacksonville thru New Orleans and Mobile, Jacksonville thru Atlanta to DC, Chicago to Jacksonville thru Atlanta, Jacksonville to Miami thru Orlando, and not to forget the folks on the west coast, Los Angeles to San Francisco (or Oakland). Some 6,000 miles at Florida's FY 2002 rate of $12 million per mile. And there would still be enough money left over to build another 4,000 miles of high speed double track rail, to other cities such as Denver, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Toronto, Montreal, even a short cut from Pittsburgh to DC and Cleveland to Buffalo in the east. All of this plus more with just a ten year moratorium on federal airport spending....After the ten years were up, the feds would NOT need to spend so much on airports afterwards.....
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