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Quoting: "If the cities buses needed painted or had big ugly oil spots or mud all over the side don't you think the people would complain?" True. But CSX doesn't, as John Kneiling once said, "have the IRS for a collection agent". There isn't a mass transit system out there that make money. If the local transit authority can persuade 50.0000001% of the local voters to pass a sales or income tax measure, they can force every person living, working, or visiting the area to "invest" in their system. Not that I am complaining - that's the way things are supposed to work in this country. And investment in mass transit is going to become very important in years to come. CSX has to attract capital solely by earning an acceptable rate of return, which doesn't always allow for the expense of cosmetic work on remote bridges. I would think the money would be better spent on another set of crossing gates somehwhere on the system. Still - I think both the City and CSX could have handled this a lot better -perhaps by offering CSX a tax credit to partially offset the cost?
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