SunRail to airport is a waste

The city of Orlando recently approved a transportation plan that would extend SunRail service to the airport. But why? A white elephant is still a white elephant. This one just keeps getting bigger. The projected 6.4 million passengers per year will have to pay at least $64 each way just to cover interest costs. Operation costs will be about the same. Debt and maintenance costs race up from there. Is it worth it? Not only no, but absolutely not!

As long as our little government folks allow construction and developments everywhere, rail just will not work for efficient and desired human transportation. A better solution is buses and other wheeled vehicles for public transportation. The highway system works fine. Rail sounds good, but it does not fit functionally in today’s world.

Ronald M. Brooke Orlando

Gerald Ford would not approve

In reading the New York Times story “Long Ford deployment shows US strength but carries cost” in the Dec. 25 Sentinel, I could not help but think that President Ford must be turning over in his grave at not only the current deployment and mission of the USS Gerald R. Ford, but also the state of affairs of politics in the country today. Sen. Lindsey Graham famously said of President Joe Biden that he was “a good man if there ever was one” and the same could be said of Ford. The electorate of this country often embraces the pendulum effect — and that chance of a swing in our political fortunes sustains my optimism for a future of peace and goodwill towards men.

Jeff Horn Orlando 

Super Bowl hangover

Kudos to seven-time Super Bowl champ Tom Brady for advocating President’s Day as a floating national holiday the day after the Super Bowl.

With the holiday in mid-February anyway (Feb. 16 this year), it makes perfect sense that it follows the big game, eliminating “Super Sick Monday” forever.

And it would save the U.S. tax revenue due to the lost productivity of hung-over workers who show up for work — if they show up.

Aside from being an efficient use of the calendar, it’s wildly popular with employers and employees alike. Doesn’t everyone like to have the next day off following a big party event?

President Trump, who prides himself on common sense, should see this as the quintessential no-brainer. It should take him five seconds to sign the executive order.

Ed Dignan Boynton Beach

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