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Driving by DCA
If you were designing an air transit system from scratch, this is probably how you would build it. Massive regional super-airports in strategic locations with true high-speed train service to area center-city stations that then connect to local mass transit.
You mean like much of Western Europe? Or cities in China and SE Asia?
If you want to read more about the idea of mega-airports and building them "right"
check out this book (pre-release) from a FTer and pretty smart guy. I've read the first chapter of the galleys and it is pretty smart stuff.
In the USA we're screwed because the infrastructure is already there and the NIMBYs won't accept change.