Regardless of the merits of expanding comuter rail throughout VT, and regardless of the costs of building even a portion of this network, I think such an endeavor will fail by pure virtue of the BANANA NIMBYs across VT that will, no doubt, object to and try to prevent this project in a myriad of ways.

• Noise concerns
• Safety concerns
• Environmental concerns
• Impacts on local vehicle traffic
• Taking/buying/using public or private property for creating/enlarging right-of-way
• Impacts on local wildlife

There would be no end to the opposition. It's the VT way.