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beaulieu - Thanks for spotting that. My mistake. From now on transporters will be designated as TOC's while infrastructure owners will be designated as IO's. <br /> <br />Murphy - Did you know that over the last few decades regulated utilities have had a higher ROI (10% give or take) than the S&P 500? I think investors have a pretty good idea of why they would put a portion of their portfolio in regulated utilities, namely steady dependable return and low risk. <br /> <br />As far as an IO not wanting a certain line, the best course of action from a societal standpoint is for that unwanted line to be railbanked under a State or Regional jurisdiction, and let those entities be the judge of whether a line should be saved or scrapped. It is my view that under a nationwide OA scenario, states and localities would finally have the necessary incentive of competitive transport services to supplement the private IO's trackage, something that is lacking now under closed access and publicly-owned shortlines/potentially publicly-owned shortlines that are/would be subject to captivity of one Class I connection.
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