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<p>[quote user="oltmannd"]</p> <p> </p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>Sam1:</strong></div> <div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>oltmannd:</strong></div> <div> <p> </p> <p>I got the report and read it, too.  Stan is more realistic than many about what a passenger rail program should/could look like - particularly many on the "advocate" side of the aisle.  His talk doesn't get much beyond principles - and the devil is always in the detail... <img alt="Devil" src="/TRCCS/emoticons/emotion-14.gif" /> </p> </div> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p>It is easy to speak in broad principles.  Politicians do it every day.  What I want to know, at the end of the day, is how will it be paid for?  Too often dreamers, visionaries, etc., their self descriptions, who belittle folks who don't see the future the way that they do, lay off a plan without any idea how to pay for it.  Or the plan that they put forth is unrealistic.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p>Yup.  No plan.  Just principles.  But, I'll give him his principles would lead to more realistic plans - that would have some shot of getting funded - compared to much of what gets tossed around.  e.g. the ever escalating CAHSR project or Amtrak's $170B "new NEC".  Yeesh. [/quote]</p> <p>I haven't read the presentation.  I will try to do so.  But until he comes up with a detailed plan on how to pay for it, or for that matter if anyone comes up with a workable plan to pay for the vision that they are rooting for, I'll pay closer attention.  Until then a dream is a dream.  The dust bins are full of studies that have gone no where because the advocates have no idea how to develop and execute a plan, including the financial aspects of it.</p>
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