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Construction of Standard Gauge Railway not worth it

If your house is dirty because of a lazy house help, will you move houses or change the house help? I ask this in reference to the company managing the railway. What is wrong with the current rail road we have? Have we used it to capacity? Are the numbers of trains greater than the current railway can accommodate? The answer to all of the above questions is no.

The only reason I have heard so far is that we are building a new Standard Gauge Railway because the current tracks cannot accommodate faster trains. I stand to be corrected. Once the Standard Gauge Railway is completed do you believe that the company will be able to pay back the funds loaned out to us?

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