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Public Ownership of Roads is okay but Public Ownership of Railroads is not?
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Randy Stahl</i> <br /><br />Better idea... Lets privatize all of the public roads, just thing of all the money won't be coming out of my pocket anymore. The trucking companys will find out what it's like to have an infrastructure more than a parking lot and a few trucks. <br />Randy <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />So, what's good for the goose is good for the gander? <br /> <br />Of course, if you think about it, at the start of the surface transportation revolution, most forms of constructed interstate infrastructure were privately owned tollways - the early toll roads, the first freight canals, the first railroads. It can be said that the two former evolved into public right of ways, the latter did not. <br /> <br />It would have been interesting if all the land grants given for railroad construction had a stated caveat that the owner was forbidden to run his own trains over the new lines, and instead was directed to charge a toll to other train operators! I wonder how different the transportation world would be today?
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