--- On Sat, 8/30/08, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:
> Of course this has been proposed before, but it was soundly
> rejected by
> the entrenched interests of the airlines who serve those
> routes:
> Southwest, American, and Continental. It would be a
> straightforward
> operation to use the existing Texas Eagle route for Dallas
[WS:] I think this nicely summarizes the modus operandi of American monopoly capitalism - find out the most expensive product or service and force it down the throats of of the public by a mixture of legislative means and marketing propaganda. It works for the providers of such goods and services, and increases the GDP too, which makes politicos happy.
So the problem is not transporatin infrastructure or even land use that favors certain modes of transportation over others - but monopoly capitalism that profits from legislatively mandated marketing-pushed transaction costs and ineffciency.
Wojtek