Going through the Federal Transit Administration process can take up to 10 to 15 years. So what we are doing today, what we are trying to accomplish at this stage, is to gauge what needs to be done now. |
I don't think it's pressure. I think it's just, we hold ourselves to a higher level. |
The visual safety improvements are extraordinary. |
They are private companies in the business of making money by moving freight. So what it will come down to, as a freight rail operator, they have to be convinced that allowing passenger rail is a good business decision. |
This would be the first state-owned (remote operation) effort. |
What the city of Charlotte has done is sell their system as a quality of life issue. |