<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by woodie:
is this a way thsat tax payers money should be used?</font>
Taking this
way off topic, there is a sound argument for subsidising transport where it is commercially unviable (think rural buses).
Whether this route fits that criteria or not I have no idea, and it sounds like this is certainly not an argument that applies to your company's competitor. But that doesn't mean that the argument never applies!