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Rob Zaleski: Rail still good idea, still stuck

Much as he tries to disguise it, Jonathan Barry is frustrated. And he suspects others are, too. It’s been eight years since the former Dane County executive co-chaired a county committee that evaluated the feasibility of a commuter rail system. And he not only concluded it was worth pursuing, but predicted in a 1997 interview with this reporter that we’d have a such a system up and running no later than 2003.