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I noticed something interesting in MWH's April 2005 column "Investors aren't public servants". He states, "If we don't like this type of hardball railroading" (refering to monopolistic pricing practices of railroads in general and CN in particular) ", then we must head to the polls and demand the federalization of railroads, or at least purchase the track and pay for the repairs ourselves." <br /> <br />Could it be that the armour of anti-open access is starting to crack? He makes the argument, perhaps inadvertently, that the public response to monopolistic railroad practices should be a takeover of the infrastructure. This sounds like a subtle approval of the open acces arguments made by rail shippers. Of course, he leaves out the option of the vertical corporate split of rail companies (with infrastructure co. becoming a regulated and perhaps public/private utiltiy, and transporter operations given unregulated freedom to roam the nation's rail grid where ever it pleases them), but since this article remark comes from the "Rail management is infallable / rail shippers are ignorant greedy SOB's" clique of Hemphill/Kaufman/ et al, it is rather remarkable.
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