A lively group of us will be taking the train to Sacramento on Wednesday June 30 to attend the meeting of the State Transportation Commission who will vote on whether to approve the funding for acquiring our Santa Cruz Branch Line rail corridor.
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The anticipated action by the California Transportation Commission (CTC) on whether or not to fund the acquisition of the Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line has been postponed for a month—until its June meeting—on June 30.
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Please consider making a donation to the Campaign to help with our lawsuit against Caltrans, which you may now do on-line, using our new secure PayPal method. Click here to make a donation. This suit was filed in Sacramento on October 20, and is progressing slowly but smoothly. The suit merely requests Caltrans to fold the one-mile Soquel/Morrisey Project into the full Highway 1 Lane Widening Project (of which it is a part), rather than illegally segmenting the one-mile piece.
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Our local Regional Commission unanimously approved the purchase of the Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line on May 6, but the funding still needs to be approved by the State’s California Transportation Commission (CTC), which is scheduled for Thursday May 20 in Sacramento.
You can help ensure that the Rail Corridor for the Santa Cruz Branch Line is acquired by sending a note to the CTC. We’ll be arranging a train trip to Sacramento on May 20. More details are available here.
The Santa Cruz City Transportation Commission will meet Wednesday, April 14 at 7 pm in the Santa Cruz City Council Chambers, 809 Center Street in Santa Cruz. While this meeting unfortunately conflicts with the County’s public hearing on the rail acquisition, please consider attending it and voicing your opinions.
Item 4 on their agenda deals with prioritizing transportation projects. Here is the staff-recommended list of projects.
We are recommending that rather than proceeding with solely auto-oriiented big intersection-widening projects and a new and bigger Highway 1 bridge over the San Lorenzo River, that they adhere to the City’s General Plan and develop TDM (Transportation Demand Management) measures, bicycle and pedestrian projects and public transit projects.
Our letter to the Transportation Commission is here.
Please have a look at it and let you know what you think.
