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You’re right, but history shows the bigger asymmetry, and it’s fallen hard on Black landowners. “Full market value” still can’t buy back a community.
That’s the mid-century highway pattern: take the least protected routes, displace Black families, then leave a permanent barrier that splits neighborhoods, drains commerce, and locks in decades of disinvestment.
Pay them fairly, sure.
The real theft is the long-run one: once the corridor goes in, the community doesn’t come back.
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If the land is worth as much as the railroad company says it is, that family won the lottery and should get paid full market value, including development value. Of course, then, the company will say it's wasteland and worth nothing. Bullshit out of both sides of their mouth.