Even with 10000 in Fairfield since 1971 (36 years), there have been the SAME train station and same airports. These are the main requirments to make Kansas more accessible. Yes, perhaps driver costs will go down from $200 to $180, but there will NOT be a new train station, nor will there be a new airport near Smith Center.
Flight costs would remain $100 more than an equivalent flight from Fairfield each leg. Except during the holidays, when students go home, you don't see many Sidhas at the Cedar Rapids or Moline airports. We don't cause sufficient, regular demand, to justify additional flights. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <drpetersutphen@> wrote: > > > > > > --- sparaig <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > And, as I said, if a population center of 10,000 > > > springs up in that area, there WILL be > > > transportation devised to service their needs. > > > > The key word is "if." Let's be very simple and honest > > here. Does anyone truly believe that a successful > > school is going to be created in the middle of nowhere > > just because MMY wants to place it there? This is just > > another whacky plan by MMY that will fade into the > > dust in a few months or years. Does anybody truly take > > it seriously? I mean, really! > > Stranger things HAVE happned. I don't expect this to be one of them, but the analysis of > the transportation costs assumed that it would NEVER change, regardless of what > happened (or didn't) at the school site. I was pointing out that THAT assumption was > certainly wrong: if, by some miracle, the Kansas center gets built AND populated, > transportation facilities WILL get built to service it and the cost of transportation would go > down. > > Happy? >
