The current FAA bruhaha is over subsidized service by a contract air line to small to middle
airports to save the few users from driving to a major terminal. Does this sound like SMART? There
are a number of flights which operate with less that five passengers requiring many hundreds of
dollars per passenger just to pay for the expense to save them driving 75 to a 100 miles. Sound
like SMART?? There's no spare $300 million to pay for the track work, there's no spare $50M/year
to pay for keeping the thing running, the fact that this is even being considered is mind blowing.
If you took 10% of just the up keep money and pay for EVERY car pool with three or four people all
the way into SF, you'd come out money ahead and reduce the traffic at least 50%. Bang for the buck
baby, it's going to be next years battle cry.