Quote: "Railtrack was a catastrophe and the banks crisis threw the whole economy into crisis, Airport strategy is most certainly not a national crisis where we need to throw what little money we have left at something. One thing about a lot of public airports in the US, I am thinking of Newark in particular, is they are quite poor by global standards. You really think the public sector can run airports better than the private sector?
The measures you are randomly throwing out there are emergency last ditch measures and not appropriate in this case. Read the thread(!)"
Regretably much of American infrastructure is crumbling, much of its population appears to be particularly averse to paying any taxes. You get what you pay for.
The USA is not a good example of airport public ownership, airports in some parts of Asia make better examples of well run publicly owned airports.
Then again, many countries have publicly owned but privately run airports, either on a concession, franchise or contract basis. There are many options.
Luckily nobody's suggested a PFI or PPP arrangement for Boris's folly!