Who benefits from Point Mac Railroad?

To the editor:

Let me start off by saying that I am totally 100 percent behind a railroad spur to Point MacKenzie. This is a total win-win situation.

What has me puzzled is the routes they picked. Those routes are very suspicious in nature. Why, in this time, would they plain a rail line right next to working farmland (Pt. MacKenzie project)? When the state goes to buy the land, who will benefit? How many farmers (dairy farmers) will sell out? Who else who owns land in that area will make money? Why does the rail line follow the road and than veer right to go past the farms? Why not just follow the road all the way?

Mr. Mystrom, how much land do you or a company you are with own out at Pt. Mac? For the love of God; please will someone stand up and say, “Let’s do a project that will benefit all the people of the state, not behind-the-scene people first?”

I understand that everyone needs to make money and business is business, but when will the underlying corruption end? Do the right thing — build the rail line, build the bridge. Everyone will make their money by having more jobs, more business to produce more goods, which will result in spending more money. Capitalism is the best system. It is the corruption or the me-first attitude that got us in the trouble we are in.

Kirk Brown

Wasilla