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Originally Posted by OCCheetos
If the city were to actually abandon the PoW bridge, I'd expect MOOSE would scramble to obtain the funding necessary to buy the bridge. Whether they'd be able to do that, I don't know, but I can't see why they wouldn't try.
Basically, it forces the city to either keep it (and acknowledge that they are keeping it) or risk losing control of the bridge.
From a legal perspective, it would set a precedent. If the city is allowed to actually discontinue a federal railway just by "screwing up" some paperwork, then that would basically make Division V of the Canadian Transportation act useless.
The Canadian Transportation Act doesn't care how long it's been. The city only owns the track up to where it reaches the Quebec shoreline which means that anything beyond is no longer a "federal railway".
As you said earlier, do you expect the city to operate a 400m long railway that isn't connected to anything meaningful?
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Moose hasn't been able to raise any money in 6 years. You expect them to be able to raise tens of millions to buy the bridge, fix it up and then operate a 100m railway? Moose is basically a blog.
Whether "abandon" and "discontinue" are the same thing is the subject of Moose's most recent complaints. That will be decided at some point.
They don't really risk losing it because nobody with an actual railway wants to use it. The next step is it is offered to the municipality which is also the city.
What remedy do you want? Should the city spend millions to build track to nowhere that nobody wants to use that will get overgrown again?
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