Biden Lambasts Conditions at LaGuardia Airport

Lots was spent to bail out the banks. Lots more to states to delay needed right-sizing of state/ local governments that had grown in bloated messes (in that vicious circle John describes).

But as far as infrastructure spending, there was little prioritization for the most societally valuable, necessary and long-lasting projects. It was all about funding shovel-ready projects. This meant a disproportionate spending on things like highway repaving (ahead of need cycle), instead of bridges, airports and other mass transportation infrastructure.

LGA perimeter rule is similar to the perimeter rule at DCA.

With the high, tight, fast approaches to short runways, there should be little to no pressure to add long-haul service on big planes. Especially with plenty of local airport alternatives. The main airport alternatives even have rail connections.

Wright is an animal on to itself. It was anti-competitive legislation created for and by special interests.

Nope!

Cuomo, but Newark is owned/operated by the port authority too, I think, so Idk how that plays out

It's not so much that he's wrong.

It's more that he's late to the party. The apart Authourty and airlines have already announced and are quite a ways along in a major capital investment in airport infrastructure and terminals, respectively.

Further, his 'guvamint' has spent in the neighborhood of $9 Trillion of additional debt, plus the total of the annual budgets for the past 5 years). In that time, and with those astronomical expenditures the federal government neither expedited nor funded these improvements. Most of the funds* were local and/or airline funds.
* with the exception of FAA funds derived mostly from user fees.

How can a 'guvamint' spend so much and not tackle important infrastructure needs. This is the largest amount of additional debt ever spent by any state in the history of the world. And it was spent in such a short amount of time.

Had the man used part of those $9 Trillion if additional debt to fix this 'third world' airport, then he'd have a leg to stand on. Without that, he's essentially condemning the horrible job if his administration to spend so much and do so little.

[And in a slightly related side note: Has anyone else noticed how the resurfaced highways that were rushed along in the earlier years if this administration are already starting to get ripped up with this harsh winter? A newly resurfaced highway should last more than 2-3 years before disintegrating.]

Biden is such a nothing it is like having no one... I know if I had Biden as a VP anywhere, I would feel that I did not have a VP.