If helipads and helicopters were as common as municipal bus stops and buses would you take them if they were affordable or still drive?

I'm a civil engineer and my friend Forrest Satterfield asked me to help him with his infrastructure policies for his house district 21 campaign.

He said that people in Meridianville and Hazel Green want him to get US 231 widened so that they can get to Redstone Arsenal easier. Forrest wants Alabama to have high speed rail as well.

As a civil engineer those are very expensive and labourous projects. Buses are not as appealing to people as rail. No one gets excited to ride on a public bus. Yet, buses are great for moving people in urban areas over existing roads and reducing traffic congestion. Rich people will never commute on a public bus.

In the past I have done civil engineering work on hospital parking garages and helipads. I would like to start a Sky Bus System with helicopters, park and ride facilities and franchise helipads at different commercial developments.

Use helicopters for getting commuters to work on Redstone Arsenal, Research Park and downtown Huntsville in the mornings and evenings from park and ride facilities in Athens, Decatur, Florence, Hazel Green, Guntersville and Scottsboro and then transport tourists to local and regional destinations during the day.

If you could have a week pass to ride helicopters all over North Alabama for $100 would you sign up? I think it would be good to use airports, old shopping center parking lots, fields and parking garages as heliports. Put a heli-station in downtown at the VBC, Lowe Mill, US Space & Rocket Center, Mid-City, Ditto Landing, John Hunt Park, Parkway Place Mall, Calhoun, UAH, etc.

How much would security on Redstone Arsenal improve if you had to access it via helicopter and go through off-site security to board the helicopter? Fewer personal vehicles on base and less traffic at the gates.

We are closer to the year of the Jetsons (2062) than when the Jetsons was created (1962). We should be flying to work because over 40,000 people die annually in the US from traffic accidents. I believe commercial air travel had zero fatalities in 2024. Huntsville could be manufacturing helicopter sky buses that the rest of the world uses to commute in the future. If anywhere should have a sky bus system I think it should be Huntsville and North Alabama. Would you take a Sky Bus helicopter to Nashville, Birmingham, Atlanta or Memphis?