“Rail banking” is the absolute worst thing we could do to the rail line. With the tracks in place, we can always start passenger service with a minimum cost at the front end. Without rails in place, passenger service options are severely limited, with heavy upfront costs, either to replace the tracks or pave the right-of-way. The next worst thing is to turn Santa Cruz County into an LPG storage yard. Greg Becker is wrong. It is not rail or trail, one or the other. If the RTC could only adopt a decision to use self-propelled trolley cars on the tracks, with small shuttle buses collecting riders in the neighborhoods, we would have both rail and trail much sooner, and at practically no public taxpayer outlay.
Howard F. Sosbee 1400 Weston Ridge Road Scotts Valley CA, 95066 831, 335, 8401 hfs@sosbee.com <mailto:hfs@sosbee.com>
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