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"Baxter" wrote:

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"Robert Coté" wrote in message
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is directly on topic. The Portland light rail extension, AirMAX, is
significantly financed by the $3 PFC that every commercial air passenger
pays coming and going.


Well, not quite, bobby - that $3 only covers the part of AirMAX that is on
Airport property.

And Tri-Met, Metro, City of, and the Port authority are famous for their
rigorous financial firewalls.

Those trains run all the way to Beaverton (on the other
side of downtown). Also, that $3 is only on departures - not both ways.

You are correct. I should have said "coming through and going" to make
that clearer.

And do note, the $3 fee only applies to construction (airport share = ~$28
million) - not operating costs.

Yeah riiiight. $28 million. Hmmm, generating $1.3 million per month it
should only be around for 22 months.


'Course, you're welcome to challenge this - but to do so would undermine
most of your other arguments about how much LRT costs.


Not at all.