Bob,

I believe they're talking on the lease over the Desert line, not the San Ysidro to San Diego segment...

The poster also posts on trainodors that has first hand access to the info after being a Carrizo George RR employee.

[b][/b]BOB2 Wrote:
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> Since there is no traffic base, no business case,
> and no reason to spend a nickel on the eastern
> portion of the former SDA&E, why would they?
>
> You seem very upset about this "failure" to waste
> public or private sector money on the Desert line,
> but which has nothing to do with economic
> reality..... There is a rail traffic base on the
> Mexican side serving an urban industrial market of
> 5 million folks, with a connection to the North
> American rail network, so they are spending money
> on that, and that is why they want to take over
> the lease on the American side from San Ysidro to
> San Diego, from the bankrupt leaseholders at the
> PIR.
>
> You seem to believe a lot of nonsense and
> conspiracy theories about MTC, but you don't
> appear to know jack squat about what railroads do,
> or why folks would invest money in them, and what
> is actually going on down there. And, your
> comments tell me that you're definitely not more
> qualified than the folk you criticize. Seems more
> like maybe, you're just stirring the pot?