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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
^ All the more reason to neuter the defacto freight railroad monopolies and at least quasi nationalize the infrastructure. The idea a private corporation could rape a public agency like that is maddening. I'd love to see the total cost to the CHSR program to accomodate and shower particularly BNSF with so many free upgrades.
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But BNSF is not getting any "free" upgrades. Where CHSR runs parallel to BNSF or for that matter UP tracks, grade separations are being built. But not to improve the freight railroad business, but to implement CHSR high speed business. The freight railroads are perfectly happy with grade crossings, the as is condition. In the as is condition, the freight railroads can service customers on both sides of its tracks, not just the side opposite of the adjacent CHSR corridor. But most of CHSR is being built away from freight railroad corridors, following highway corridors instead. More CHSR money is being spend on highways that rails today.
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