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Goverment provides the "Forum" who speaks in that forum is entirley up to them. Local municipality have provided Public Market Houses which are owned <br />by the city. The Vendors and Farmers that are in that Public Market pay a small rent to cover there expences. Some of the Best Public Markets I have been in are in Cleveland,Broadway Market in Buffalo and Portland Public Market. These markets that I have been in benifit the community by providing a outlet for fresh produce and meats that might not be able to get on the big corparte grocery shelves. They provide inner city people with food in areas atht are too dence to build a huge supermarket. In Cleveland the West Side Public Market has benifited the whole neighbood in increased real esate and quality of life in "Ohio City". <br />The FCC owns the air waves and then doles them out the local radio stations who are free to broadcast whatever they want. <br />NFTA ownes the Buffalo Airport but does not control the airlines. <br />The Thruway Authority ownes and manages the Turnpike and Canal System but does not manage the truck and barge companys that run on there System. <br />But Railroads on the other hand is the only transportation system that I can think of that owns the Infrastucture and the Vehicles that run on it. Its like the local mall owns all the shops inside the mall. The Cost of Infrastucture should be borne by Goverment because we all benifit from having that infrastucture there. Goverment is good at building and owning highways and bridges and sewers. Let the buisness be good at what it does and that is the free market. <br />Railroads benifit more then just the people who pay the freight and passenger bills. It not fair to make them pay the full bill when so many of us benifit from cleaner air and less traffic congestion. Why Railroads would fight tooth and nail not to have to the goverment take take over a major part of there expence is behond me. Railroads are in the transportation buisness not in the infrastucture buisness. Leave Transportation to the Buisness and Infrastucture to the goverment. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
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