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Bloomberg Takes Blame for Response to Snowstorm
By PATRICK McGEEHAN
Published: December 29, 2010
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg accepted responsibility Wednesday for the city’s response to a crippling snowstorm, pledging to have every street plowed by morning and then to figure out why his administration’s cleanup efforts were inadequate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/ny...w.html?_r=1&hp
Delays at Heathrow airport were continuing days after London was hit by a major snowstorm. The airport's boss gave up his bonus because of Heathrow's winter weather problems.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/8682628/23595850
from a 2001 article:
The possible lessons of airport privatization, commercialization, and regulation in the United Kingdom (U.K.) are discussed. This is both timely and topical because of the huge financial pressures on governments to meet the infrastructure investments required to accommodate the forecasts of growth in air traffic and modernization such as new, larger aircraft. In response to these trends, the U.S. government and governments around the world have looked at the U.K. as a model of privatization. It was the first nation to privatize its airports, and a variety of ownership structures have been adopted. The history of privatization, commercialization, and regulation in the U.K. is traced, and important lessons are highlighted. Regulation may be the only policy lever available to shape a privatized and commercialized airport system and its role within a wider integrated transport strategy. The authors contend that a commercialized model of ownership similar to that at many U.K. municipal airports could be adopted in the United States, potentially relieving the financial pressure on the federal government to fund development.
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=14085227
Question: the privatization of fire departments in the US led to equipment degradation, training lapses, and a general falling of responsiveness of the departments, as profits were skimmed off the top, leaving a fire department badly in need of overhaul, which was when the private contract generally expired. What role has both the privatization of once-public functions such as airports and the shedding of personnel in same while still public, have had on their response to less-than ideal weather circumstances?
By PATRICK McGEEHAN
Published: December 29, 2010
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg accepted responsibility Wednesday for the city’s response to a crippling snowstorm, pledging to have every street plowed by morning and then to figure out why his administration’s cleanup efforts were inadequate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/ny...w.html?_r=1&hp
Delays at Heathrow airport were continuing days after London was hit by a major snowstorm. The airport's boss gave up his bonus because of Heathrow's winter weather problems.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/8682628/23595850
from a 2001 article:
The possible lessons of airport privatization, commercialization, and regulation in the United Kingdom (U.K.) are discussed. This is both timely and topical because of the huge financial pressures on governments to meet the infrastructure investments required to accommodate the forecasts of growth in air traffic and modernization such as new, larger aircraft. In response to these trends, the U.S. government and governments around the world have looked at the U.K. as a model of privatization. It was the first nation to privatize its airports, and a variety of ownership structures have been adopted. The history of privatization, commercialization, and regulation in the U.K. is traced, and important lessons are highlighted. Regulation may be the only policy lever available to shape a privatized and commercialized airport system and its role within a wider integrated transport strategy. The authors contend that a commercialized model of ownership similar to that at many U.K. municipal airports could be adopted in the United States, potentially relieving the financial pressure on the federal government to fund development.
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=14085227
Question: the privatization of fire departments in the US led to equipment degradation, training lapses, and a general falling of responsiveness of the departments, as profits were skimmed off the top, leaving a fire department badly in need of overhaul, which was when the private contract generally expired. What role has both the privatization of once-public functions such as airports and the shedding of personnel in same while still public, have had on their response to less-than ideal weather circumstances?
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