Urban planning by hurricane?

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From a New York Time article:

"...local officials are excitedly talking about the hurricane as if it were, in some ways, a brutal but effective urban redesigner, solving infrastructure problems that the cities had been wrestling with for years.

The railroad tracks that run through the center of both cities (Gulfport and Biloxi) - carrying trains that were only on their way to someplace else - had become a nuisance and even a danger. Now that many of the bridges are down and some of the tracks are tied into pretzels, city officials are planning to lobby the freight railroad CSX, the owner of the tracks, to move them farther north. A spokesman for CSX said it was too early in the rebuilding phase for that to be considered."

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