In a bold stroke of investigative journalism, WaPo has nailed the Washington Airports Authority for excess travel by Board members and their families at Agency expense. (“Airport Board’s Travel Spending Has Few Limits” 13 October)
Great Work! Got them dead to rights…
But where is WaPo on the big problem: Plowing $100s of millions into the wrong transport projects?
• Overbuilding the Regional airport capacity and thus raising the cost of long distance travel
• Overbuilding the Regional capacity for short flights that are inefficient, pollute the ground with noise and pollute the air excess atmospheric emissions
• Dumping money into an airport that is in the wrong Regional location with short runways and cannot avoid creating world class noise pollution with the Core of the in the National Capital Subregion
• Agreeing to build a ground transport system the does not serve the needs of air travelers and without insisting on functional settlement patterns in the station-areas that would help pay for the cost.
But WaPo nailed those travel expenses …
Why? See THE ESTATES MATRIX
EMR