Thanks JordanB. I was actually just coming on to go 'Oh, duh. I would like to retract my last comment and replace it utterly with gracious thanks to Cardinal for taking the time to read my school project and comment not once, but twice. I will make use of this feedback. "etc.
Not my morning, you know? My car was in shop from last Thursday until Monday night. Tuesday morning, it promptly quits working again. I can whine about this because it is transportation related and this is the transportation forum.
Okay, back to what Jordan was saying: Yeah, I hear you. The link is to a school project and it had certain requirements that do not really suit the purpose of using this for actual planning stuff, you know? So I have already made changes to it but figured it couldn't hurt to get additional feedback. But the more recent versions are not conveniently out there on the www, like my school project itself is.
I finally have a wide format printer, so now I can do up some nice booklets. Now that I am physically set to print, I want to make sure I put my best foot forward. I ended up doing this research because planners in this county expressed their frustration with the existing rail plan to me right before I left for GIS school. I needed a project for school that was geographically related and this was what I ultimately thought of and worked on. I don't think I have 'all the answers' but needed to write it up like I did for the school project when I used my GIS work to then do stuff for an environmental economics class.
Anyway, there is substantial research here, but I kind of need to repackage it so it sounds a whole lot less dictatorial -- like 'Do it MY way!' There actually isn't any one 'stand out' site for Vacaville and I have since been told by a planner that the Elmira site is 'politically dead' due to MTBE, etc. But, hey, that wasn't relevant to finishing the project just to turn in for schoolwork at the time (nor did I know it then -- this guy called me after I gave him a brochure as he was one of the folks that talked to me before I left for GIS school, etc.).