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[quote user="beaulieu"]Bucyrus, I think CP will talk to Rochester, and I think they will say that if Rochester will build an acceptable bypass the CP will lease and use it. Acceptable as in, not appreciably longer and no heavy gradients. I think Rochester will baulk at a price tag I suspect will be above $100 million dollars and that will be the end of the conversation.[/quote]I see that as a possibility.  Somehow there will be a compromise, and I think it will pivot around extra infrastructure.  A bypass would be one such example, but the price tag for a bypass will soar as the landowners on the proposed route find themselves in the driver's seat in a confrontation where CP arrives on its knees.  And those landowners are likely to be armed with the same moral outrage as the present opposition.  In my opinion, a more likely compromise will be special provisions for the route through the city.  There is no problem that cannot be solved by encasing it in concrete.  Kevin Schieffer once said that he was not going to build a tunnel under Rochester.  I would not be surprised if CP feels the same way.  Certainly Rochester is not going to build the tunnel, but the citizens of Minnesota probably won't mind building it.
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