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re: BLOG: Freight Master Plan: It's About Time!

I don't believe there is any location where freight movement would be worthwhile over MAX lines. I merely pointed out that it is possible. Of course, it would have to occur after regular service has stopped for the night were it to occur at all.

But, Benkay, your post is a reminder that it's stupid to fault MAX for not being a freight movement system. It does what it was built to do, and unless the anti-rail gang can provide any numbers to the contrary, it's just as easy for me to say that MAX takes cars off the road, thereby improving freight mobility indirectly, as it is for the anti-rails to claim that it's a failure for not moving freight (or providing new or expanded/widened ROWs for such movement) directly. The similarity between the two arguments is that neither means much without data to support. The main difference between the arguments is that theirs is a straw-man.

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