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Yeash, what's wrong over there? Here, when we contract things out, we get higher quality and lower costs, not the opposite. Now, there are a few keys to that -- for one, the ability to fire the contractor post haste if they don't perform, and two, no one contractor for all things -- that's a monopoly, and that only encourages waste and corruption. <br /> <br />Likewise, Railtrack's main problem wasn't it's concept, but that it was a private firm. It should have been publicly owned. After all, would you want a private firm owning the surface streets? Heck no! <br /> <br />As for the freight mixed versus freight only, mixed can work, but only if there are sufficient sidings for meets and passes, and only if they can operate at certain speeds. Our High Speed routes stateside dating from the 40s and 50s were triple and even quadruple track to accomodate the varying speeds. <br /> <br />Alexander
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