What
We Promote: Airport Connections
The Nation's air system is under going a radical restructuring.
Service to smaller communities is continuing to decline as the airlines
look for a ways to cut costs.
In order to remain connected to the air system, communities and
businesses throughout the Midwest have taken on a greater financial
burden in providing airport services and airline advertising in
an effort to keep existing service or gain new flights.
Fast and frequent railroad service can be used to connect these
smaller communities and many more to major hub airports, supplementing
existing feeder flights.
For example, Springfield and Bloomington/Normal, IL are located
on the Chicago to St. Louis Amtrak route. Each airport has just
three daily flights to O'Hare. The Illinois Department of Transportation
has plans to increase the existing rail service to nine daily trains.
If the rail route were connected directly to O'Hare, these communities
would, in effect gain nine daily "flights" to O'Hare,
increasing the access to international markets. Additionally, five
other Illinois towns would gain direct O'Hare access.
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Our proposal for O'Hare airport
Potential airport connections
in the Midwest
Airport
connections around the world
Reconnecting America
has done extensive research into the challenges facing America's
transportation systems.
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