the right).
When thinking about the proposal to dump nearly $5 million into
expanding Salem's airport (including making the runway longer), you have
to wonder whether Salem's leadership able to learn from the experience
of others — or are we condemned to repeat others' mistakes, even after
explicit warning?
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A brief note on demand destruction and infrastructure....
Our family flew from Tokyo/Narita Airport for summer vacation on July
27. The airport has always been PACKED at this time, peak travel season
(schools get out around July 21 here).
This summer there were no long lines, no crowds, no waiting to get into
restaurants. Lots of room to move, actually pleasant in a way.
Then I started thinking about the huge amounts of cement poured, now
investments with no or low returns, what happens when the thing gets
really empty, then abandoned? It is huge and it is not the only one.
I read that airline ticket sales to Europe and N. America from Japan
were down 40% this summer because of the fuel prices making tickets too
expensive. At the airport, that 40% quote felt like it was on target.
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2 comments:
Hi ... just discovered your blog thanks to the mention in Salem Monthly. Excellent info and good writing (of course it helps that I agree with you on most issues!).
I wrote a number of letters to the editor at Statesman Journal protesting the paper's constant use of its "news" articles to promote the airport. Thankfully, the economy did what the voice of the people could not.
I'll be checking in frequently with you. By the way, I couldn't get the RSS feed to work properly (I have about two dozen 'premos' on my Yahoo page and would love to add yours). Can you check your coding? I normally have no trouble with blogspot feeds but yours merely gives me an option to download an unknown file type.
Hi Barb, welcome!
Let me know if the RSS feed link at the bottom of the page isn't working too (I'm assuming you tried the one in the Links area to the right). I used the one at the bottom successfully.
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