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Old Posted Aug 7, 2019, 1:21 PM
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Originally Posted by electricron View Post
Well, have you forgotten one very important fact? Yes you have! This railroad corridor and tracks is owned and operated by FEC, a freight company railroad.
They are being friendly sharing their freight tracks with Brightline (Virgin). Now you want to expel them from their own corridor eliminating freight services to every industry that built along this corridor. The opposite is more likely to happen if that issue of who will remain ever arises.
I did not know that. Regardless if reaffirms why I think this project should have more money devoted to it and be state ran project. This corridor, under my proposal, would see increased speeds for both freight and passenger rail. I am not sure why the freight companies would have a problem with that.
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