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goboard, let me try a different angle. Specific to the government (fed, state, or local) funding infrastructure: <br /> <br />-We can build new highways without any complaints from the trucking and busing industries <br />-We can build new airports without any complaints from the airline or airfreight industries <br />-We can build new waterways without any complaints from the barge and cruise line industries <br /> <br />BUT..... <br /> <br />-If we try to build new rail lines, the railroad industry would have a fit, complaining that we are unfairly subsidizing rail to rail competition. They have eliminated so much capacity over the years for a reason, and they are not about to let new rail construction destroy their hard fought profit margins gained from capacity retrenchment. <br /> <br />Compared to how other industries would react to proposed capacity increases, the rail industry response seems rather convoluted, but that's what happens when the anachronism of the owner-operator ROW is allowed to continue its existence, while all other modes have evolved. <br /> <br />This is why you will never see public funding of proprietary rail lines. Deep down, they really don't want it.
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