Do you mean that we might want to spend on some "basic" things like the Del Mar bypass, before it falls onto the beach, on the second busiest rail corridor adjacent to the busiest interstate highway corridor?

Do you think that maybe, we should address basic "needs", before we start spending tens of billions of dollars,to build a 7,000 car park and ride in Gilroy "to get people out of their cars", and the gold plated "cost is no object" insanity like Pacheco?

The next time some people find themselves inclined to tweet out "railfan" maps of "fantasy" HSR lines to places like Bismarck and Minot, as though tweeting "brain farts" like that might form the basis for national transportation policy, I'll show them your post...

I would also note that annual ridership in Egypt is around ten times greater than Amtrak...