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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by solzrules [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] AntiGates - Hard to disagree with you there. It just seeems like a rather chaotic process. And there are going to be a lot of hard feelings when it is done. But, so goes politics. [/quote] Well, just playing devil's advocate, but there would be hard feelings if the railroad were allowed to do as it darn well pleased as well, no? Just muttering out loud, but whenever you or I go out railfanning, we are looking forward to seeing trains, we focus our ambitions upon seeing as many as possible, and the prospect of 50 trains per day SOUNDS like a bonanza. And when we are done, we go back to our remote, quiet, homes Living lineside with 50 trains per day, I suspect would be another matter entirely. I guess there is an opposite to a "NIMBY" that is equally self centered, where the thinking goes "since it's not in my back yard, NO ONE should object to whatever it is that I want" Those people who's back yard it actually is, will have to end up living with whatever ends up getting done. I bet 2 trains per hour, all day and all night, would get mighty old real quick, if one lived just a block or two from a grade crossing
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