text: Time to start talking about a meaningful rail exit strategy.  The lack of that discussion by anyone on the HART board is simply irresponsible.  While they discuss money running out completely in just over 6 months, no one, it appears, is making a mve to initiate wind down considerations.  One would have to presume this board would oversee the initially un-planned premature end of the project.  It seems like the only reason they address ending the program is to try and scare the public with the close down costs.  "Oh, you guys don't want this to stop.  It's gonna cost BIG BUCKS!  BOOO!"  Plans should start now, in the discussion and skeletal planning stages at the very least.  The public no longer supports this boondoggle because it is not as easily fooled.   It doesn't take experience as a political insider or captain of local business to understand that this project will end up really hurting everyone financially (e.g. excessive taxes).   Without public support, it is dead.