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Hold The Mayo: Study Says DME Cant Repay Loan

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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates Well I fail to see what all the crying over spiltr milk is about. This is what we are talking about correct? http://www.visi.com/~mfrahm/dme/plant/dmeprb0.jpg With the $2.5 billion going to construct the orange segment and expand a few sidings along DM&E's exiting line? For example, If I owned a house in Rochester, and wanted to convert it into a hotel, (expanding it's volume and capacity) I'd have zoning requirements I'd have to comply with, proving there was adequate parking, fire protection, etc, and that the day to day operations were not going to cause a nusianceto the existing neighbors. There would be a hearing in which surrounding neighbors would be entitled to pitch any objections, And the same thing seems to be happening here, just on a larger scale. The real "hard knocks" that I see here is that the City of Rochester has a party (the Mayo Clinic) on it's side whom cannot be taken lightly and just brushed aside. That is the real fly in the ointment here isn't it? That the railroad can't just do as it darn well pleases and get away with it? The City found itself a formidable bodyguard. That's the breaks, I guess. [/quote] Hold on, now. DM&E isn't expanding it's ROW through town, is it? They're not adding tracks next to the Mayo, are they. All they are doing is improving the current layout that happens to abut El Clinico del pretentiouso. That's a little bit different than turning your three bedroom home into a 50 room hotel. As far as I know, you can make all the improvements you want to your house in it's current configuration without the need for permitting, as long as you are not physically adding to the houses dimensions. The other way to look at it is this: RIght now, DM&E could legally and concievably run 50 trains a day over they current trackage without prejudice. Yeah, it'd have to be at 10 mph and would clog all the crossings all day long, but there would be nothing the scrubs could do about it. The fact that DM&E is improving the trackage and (I presume) the operational fluidity of the tracks should be counted as a favor by DM&E to the Mayo folks and the surrounding townscape.
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