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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

HassleCat

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1. Time to confiscate the railroads

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Oct 23, 2015, 02:35 PM

Oct 2015

Or at least pass laws that force them to provide a public service. Most of them got all their right-of-way free fro the government, and they were pretty much allowed to do anything they wanted for 100 years.

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Time to confiscate the railroads HassleCat Oct 2015 #1

I edited while you were posting. mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2015 #2