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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe
Why not leave it in CP's hands?
They keep maintaining the ROW. They keep landowners from encroaching. Taxes are collected from them(if they pay taxes on ROW)
When it comes time, then the city can go for it.
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Absolutely. That's why the City has the upper hand - they can afford to wait for as long as it takes for CP to sell it, and through their Supreme-Court-upheld right to designate land use they can prevent CP from doing anything with the land that would compromise its use as a transportation corridor.
CP knows this and that's why they tried the "annoy the residents in order to put pressure on the city" approach. But they have to spend money to do that and under the current cost-cutting management if there's no indication that it's going to yield results I'd expect them to give up on it before long.
So my guess is that it's simply going to revert back to the status quo for the indefinite future.