In my city, we had given a tax amnesty to the railroads that lapsed 20 years ago or so. What did the city do? Renewed the amnesty for another 50 years.

So we have valuable land that is Criss crossing our city, and the taxpayer now has to build monumental amounts of infrastructure to circumvent.

We build overpasses, underpasses, special crossings.

Our city just dropped 300 million for a bridge that runs over stockyards. We're redoing the one of several blocks away to the tune of another 200 million this year.

There were several underpasses put in in The last 5 years that totaled up to 400 million.

No, let's not kick these useless freight trains out of our city, let's let them keep using it as a parking lot. Now let's build an additional 2 billion dollars worth of infrastructure for the rapid transit system which did not exist and we are desperately trying implement in a city that has no land because of mismanagement. Oh yeah, don't boot the trains out and use that land for rapid transit, let's give them a tax amnesty so they can park trains all day. Not one fucking thing is shipped within the city and there's no reason for them to exist here.

When I used to drink, 11 years sober, you would not talk to me about trains cuz I would go for hours haha