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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark

Point taken, but this ever further exemplifies how we should be more concerned that council has quietly dropped the rail transit proposal. It just seems like "oh well, that didn't work so it's not happening... sorry we can't talk about it - nondisclosure agreements and all - haha".

If CN shut them down for some 'unknown' (to us) reason, IMHO they should be looking for other ways of making this work, either through the feds or... ?



IMHO, some of the more useful ROWs should be taken back, but it would be expensive. Politically, they would have to give something in return, and economically the system would have to be totally rebuilt, whereas before they may have been able to get away with local repairs to the 'bad' sections...

The city or the provnce could nationalize the line. However, that might see all rail freight leave Halifax and the Maritimes as a whole.. They may not see it as worth it.