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[bigeman312]

OK, but if you haven't gotten the line back to design speeds, you have not eliminated all the slow zones.

That is called moving the goal posts.

It’s actually not called moving the goal posts. You are confusing two unrelated things.

“Moving the goal posts” implies that a promise was made, then the promise was changed. In this instance, the promise that was made was that the slow zones would be removed by repairing and replacing the track infrastructure to get it into a state of good repair. That promise is being delivered on.

It appears that you believed the promise was to return service to what it was decades ago. That promise was never made.

There is a difference between realizing you were mistaken and having the “goal posts moved.”