As evidenced by the hundreds of folks who turned out for the rail trail groundbreaking last Thursday (mid-day on a workday) let’s keep building the rail trail. As evidenced by the Unified Corridor Study (UCS) results and the overwhelming public support for Scenario B with rail and trail on the rail corridor, let’s add robust passenger rail transit fully integrated with our existing bus network ASAP. The UCS found that passenger rail transit will attract 75 percent more passengers and be 35 percent faster than would adding a bus rapid transit to our public transportation system. Furthermore, adding passenger rail transit will result in an overall 25 percent increase in public transit use. Isn’t that what we are trying to do, get folks out of their cars and into a stress-free commute while reducing global warming greenhouse gas emissions? Come on, let’s do this.