That’s 72 times more for air travel security than for mass transit security.<\/p>\n This in spite of the fact that 16 times more people use urban mass transit Could the reason have anyting to do with the fact that congressmen and That, and the inexistence of a subway industry, or subway lobby in statistics from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to the Starts & Stops column in today’s Boston Globe, since Sept. 11, 2001, the aviation industry has received $18.1 billion from the Federal government in subsudies and security funding. Since Sept. 11, 2001, the US public transportation industry … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/ssubbway.jpg\")
According
\n to the Starts
\n & Stops<\/a> column in today’s Boston Globe, since
\n Sept. 11, 2001, the aviation industry has received $18.1 billion<\/strong> from
\n the Federal government in subsudies and security funding. Since Sept.
\n 11, 2001,
\n the US public transportation industry received a paltry $250
\n million<\/strong>. <\/p>\n
\n each day than use all of the nation’s airports.<\/p>\n
\n women average three or four flights a week, and haven’t taken a subway
\n or bus, outside of campaign photo-ops, since, well, in most cases, since
\n ever?<\/p>\n
\n any way equivalent to the Airline industry. If they existed, they could
\n offer free trips on the Red Line, but this would hardly be competitive.<\/p>\n