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us is linking between some pretty rural areas, but between
seattle, vancouver, seattle and portland, oregon, and cha-ching
oregon, we have some major business markets and the opportunity
for travelers who are tourists to enjoy our rail. for us, it
wasn't going to work to start from scratch. immediately
institute a high speed rail line. we have too many communities
linking to that west coast corridor that wanted to enjoy the
benefits of rail, and wanted us as a state to his country being
and putting our own state dollars into it, they wanted to see
the benefits in that incremental fashion. so for us i think
washington state will always be a higher speed or at least in
the next 20 to 30 years, higher speed passenger rail program,
but it works for us and it works for our businesses and our
major communities that it links. also i'd like to say that as we
work closely with burlington northern santa fe on this notion of
sharing the corridor, it's a deci