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[quote user="V.Payne"] Yikes, looks like ideas are not being discussed but the person attacked. I have spoken to my Senator three times over the last year. The paper was featured on the National Corridors website (look at the link). I was actually thinking of running it through the TRB paper process. Technical jargon is not talking about interest rates. Technical jargon is talking about psuedo-static forces from an earthquake time-history loading. The senate is discussing Amtrak funding as part of the highway bill this year (due in May). [/quote] How do we know that you talked to your senator three times over the last year?  Who is your senator?  How did you talk with him or her, i.e. face to face, email, telephone, etc.?  Where is the independent verification of your claim?  Also, what legislation, if any, has your senator proposed as a result of your input?   In previous posts you have use the term disutility of time or  similar terminology.  That's jargon.  And it is just one example.  A mature writer, addressing a non-technical audience, would simply have said that time is important for some travelers; not so much for others. The benchmark hurdle (interest) rate for a federally funded project, i.e. highways, waterways, etc., is the 10 Year Treasury Note or the Treasury's weighted average cost (interest) for marketable debt.   The benchmark hurdle rate for a private business is its weighted average cost of capital.   You referenced AAA bonds.  It was not clear what you meant. U.S. government debt is not uniformily rated AAA.  And none of the Class 1 railroad railroad debt is rated AAA, which I attempted to show by listing the ratings for each road.    No one said that talking about interest rates is jargon.
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