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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (351252)	9/22/2007 6:53:03 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1577351

But Jack Murtha Airport goes a little too far, IMO. And of course, Ted Stevens' "Bridge to Nowhere" is the worst. Yet both of those could legally fit under the definition of interstate commerce. After all, how else are out-of-state trucks going to supply that remote island in Alaska without the bridge? While Murtha has pork issues, building an airport is not one of them.....of course, if its not being used, then that is bad. As for the "bridge to nowhere", that was intended to help an airport as well. So they are both similar issues although the AK bridge was a total joke. Most airports in this country have been built by the feds. Now in the larger [read busier] airports like LAX, the feds can get the airlines to ante part or all of the bill for their terminals. However the feds still build the main terminals, runways, roads etc. Now with the smaller airports like Johnston or Binghamton or Harrisburg, the airlines would not bother to fly to these cities if they didn't have existing airports. So to insure that most cities in this country have airline service, the feds build most of the existing airports and then the airlines pay rent to use the facilities. The money to improve the airports comes from the airlines rent plus the tax you pay on every airline ticket you buy. PS. The Johnston airport is a boondoggle.......here's an example of the service from that airport....that might explain why Murtha is still on the corrupt list: US Airways has 4 daily flights from Johnstown to Pittsburgh, for a total of 136 seats daily and 8743 seats on all flights monthly. Flights on this route have an average occupancy of 25%. The on-time percentage for these flights is 90%. The cheapest roundtrip airfares from Johnstown to Pittsburgh is $ 222.

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