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Old Posted May 22, 2018, 8:56 PM
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Originally Posted by ATLksuGUY View Post
If you add it, someone has to operate the lines and taxpayers have to pay for the construction/operating costs until it turns a penny. If it doesn't ever generate revenue then it wastes all of our money, by the millions/billions...

Rail is too expensive to build on a purely speculative hunch.
If you build it, you can operate it later. If you don't build it, they won't come.

And adding a lane for rail might have increased the total cost of this project by about .03%,
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