professor schwieterman: there is a time difference. it is quite competitive. >> with the twin cities, i looked a lot at universities and how many students there are. because the university of minnesota is so large, it has such a big population, it is important that i added wisconsin on the route as well given all of the travel, especially for college students going for interviews or being able to travel between cities is important. a lot of college students don't have cars. >> that is a factor we talked about last week. madison, that is why it is outsized in interest. there is a rail friendly demographic. that has me the demise of the high-speed rail controversial. great comments. let's look at why this creates a difficult public process. we take these routes and show which cases agencies have an effect prevented a route from being lost or abandoned as railroads cut back. we take the map and look at routes. many of them have had segments where significant links were at risk of being pulled up or torn up. the private railroad industry h