Trump plans week-long focus on infrastructure, starting with privatizing air traffic control

Washington Post ^ | June 3, 2017 at 2:15 PM | John Wagner

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President Trump will seek to put a spotlight on his vows to privatize the nation’s air traffic control system and spur $1 trillion in new investment in roads, waterways and other infrastructure with a weeklong series of events starting Monday at the White House.

The events — billed as “infrastructure week” — are part of a stepped-up effort since the president’s return a week ago from his first foreign trip to show that the White House remains focused on its agenda, despite cascading headlines about investigations into his administration’s ties to Russia.

The president has invited executives from major airlines to join him as he kicks off the week with one of his more controversial plans: spinning off the air traffic control functions of the Federal Aviation Administration to a nonprofit corporation. …

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My language may have been loose, but you do realize from context that was what I meant. Perhaps you are a lteralist?

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Nav Canada’s a monopoly that is at best nominally private, what with being created by an act of Canada’s parliament (I’m reminded of the railroads in Ireland prior to CIE/Irish Rail). They aren’t without their problems to be sure. They may be better in ways than the state-run monopoly, but they have inherent inefficiencies.