If my experience over the last 45 years is any indication, we've looked at about every permutation of Coastline passenger service, except for a full blown CAHSRA fiasco, including your suggestion of extensions to SLO.

You are making too much sense for politicians or "visionaries", though.... Their brains can't handle the thought of doing something sensible like that, there aren't likely to be hundreds of contractors at the next political fund raiser...

It is not from a lack of knowledge or imagination, that we are "stuck in neutral" in our cars, going nowhere fast, on the often "all day" congested segments of the 101 corridor, it is from a complete lack of political leadership to provide the resources to meet those needs or take advantage of those opportunities.

And, now that the "zombie" "un-dead" CAHSRA "runaway money train" is already going back to "business as usual", "screw you", "ha-ha" we're still wasting all of the available money...press releases and interviews, I am not optimistic that anything has really "changed"....