The basic problem with this and all other articles like this is the assumption that special interests, always and everywhere, are enmical to public interest. What is actually required is something called an argument that what is being said or advocated is not in the public interest. Note the abcsence here of that. A poll? The point should be is it a valid poll. Not who funded it. Thatis rediculously easy to do. As to cost overruns. Who would have predicted that the price of single family homes would rise to $750,000? That electricity prices would triple in the same period? The opponents of rail, were notorious for their false claims. And they in turn were well funded too. Who can forget the grassroot institutes propaganda. Unfortunately Ian's concern about special interests doesn't include the ideologically crazed. Because crazy has no special interest?