Re: The City Of Santa Cruz Tells Trail Now To “F” Themselves
Author: mirage
Date: 10-06-2017 - 21:21
Building the trail where there is no conflict with the tracks is the easy part. The hard part is where there is a conflict. Segment 7 is the first test and it doesn't look good. Two things: 1) the construction estimate has gone up seven-fold for that one "difficult section", doubling the construction cost of that entire segment and 2) demonstrated that the RTC rail-with-trail plan completely missed obvious sections that needed to be labeled "difficult" instead of "moderate." In short, there's not enough money to even build the easy part because it's not easy. There will be no complete trail, stop kidding yourselves. I suggest getting the train figured out first. Then the RTC can plan required setbacks BEFORE building a trail that will have to be moved again. But getting the train going may be difficult if the rumor that IP is cutting town.