Feeders to create practical rail connections. It is neither dishonest nor unreasonable to shape your argument to the particular audience. To the over the road truck driver corridor passenger rail takes the amateurs off the road and out of his or her way. It is good to work with environmental groups and this can be done without either co-opting them or being coopted by them. We can agree with them when we feel they are right and disagree when we do not.
Coalitions are good.
I have long said that support for passenger rail has to come from the grass roots. If we are to get our politicians, both locally and nationally to support the rail cause, they need to see that it doesn't come from just a small segment of the population. A good point. Our State Department of Transportation spokesman actually told the local paper at one point that all the pro-rail responses they were getting were from a small group of rail fans. While we generated as much support during a recent project comment period as we could from our membership we notice a couple of interesting things.