Monday, October 11, 2010
Government at Work -in Minnesota
This is pretty bad...
Tom Stewardrecently called attention to this at BigGovernment.com:
"St. Cloud Regional Airport (STC) touts lots of amenities on its website—a café, ATM, free wi-fi, free parking and a $5 million completely renovated terminal whose capacity went up dramatically from 30 to 200 travelers. There’s also a new $750,000 passenger boarding bridge secured with federal stimulus funds to keep travelers out of the elements while catching a flight. One asset, however, the newly renovated airport notably lacks—commercial flights and passengers.
'We’re here to serve the public and serve them well and have adequate facilities,' Bill Towle, airport director, told the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota. 'I would say the airport is a utility and we need adequate facilities to serve the public.'
Currently, an average of about one charter flight a month with 130 or so passengers uses the eerily empty 9,000 square foot glass-fronted facility."
