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Public Ownership of Right of ways of Highways and Toll Roads is accepted and the Publics Right of Free Acess to them is also but Public Ownership of Railroad Infrastucture is not? Certainly unless you are living under a rock we all get benefits of cheeper and Cleaner modes of transporttion wether use them or not. Food is cheaper and fresher, Lawyers Doctors and Proffesionals can serve us without having to live in our area by taking Public Trains and Public Roads. We can have stuff brought to us from all over the world via Container trains and ships. <br />So making just the users pay for there access is unfair because there are third partys who benifit as well. Collecting Taxes from those people makes sure that our Infrastucture stays in place. <br />Private Ownership and Private capital may have worker when this country was young and Private Entrapranuers had pooled there money together to build our railroads and canals. But those people acted not out of benolence but for personal gain. In todays urbanised world Transportation is in The Pro Bono or the Public Good and Intrest . By acting collectivly under our a Democratic Goverment WE can decide what we need and when we need Infrastucture.
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