Eminent domain has been used to build a great many roads in this country. The people moved very often didn't like it, but should we not have those roads?
As long as the compensation is fair, and the rail line is considered a common carrier that the paying public has a legal right to use, it is something that is specifically authorized by the Constitution.
you must not have property along the route. I do, a 90 year old family farm. I do not wish to see it split up.
We just last year had to absorb a pipeline ROW across it as the company threatened to seize it via ED.
Until the ED laws are changed by the legislation currently befoRe the legislature, the laws favors the company, not the landowner.
Are you equating a publicly built road with a profit-making hi speed rail as to use of ED?