Originally published at: ATC Budget Allocation Viewed as Just a Start - AVweb
$12.52 billion called just ‘one third’ of the required investment.
Spend it while you have it. Because it’s going to be forgotten quickly. Pick a few most needed locations and get plans going. That is a difficult task in itself. Who can figure the future now, bid, accept, and start building. You’re looking at years to just do that. The 2028 projection was just BS talk. Then hire. Once that begins with enough effort to do any good, you still have about 3 or 4 years before one of those folks become fully capable. The controllers’ union is a necessity as a partner. But don’t let them do what unions are paid to do and try to grab too much control. The decisions will never get settled then.
I found the needed money to do it all now. How about we spend $45 billion more on ATC facilities and not on building concentration camps?
Concentration camps, bobd? Got a bit too much kool-aid this morning, eh? Will you take any undocumented border crossers into your home?
Please, quit with the politics. The people have spoken.
Bobd, I agree. And the people have spoken—the majority of Americans are opposed to the way the administration is dealing with immigrants and to “Alligator Alcatraz”. We need to be thoughtful of how we spend our money, and it makes much more sense to spend it on ATC modernization than on prisons.
As someone who spent a career around very large corporate projects in the private sector these numbers just seem insane. $30billion is 30,000 million dollars! Think about that.
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