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Re: Hollister CA wants its px trains too
Author: Carol L Voss
Date: 08-18-2018 - 11:08
Ralph Wrote:
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> One thing I don't get is that Caltrain is
> currently running only 3 trains a day in either
> direction down to Gilroy...is there really a
> demand for them to go further south when they're
> hardly running as it is?
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> Also: " One Salinas city councilmember last week
> said that Monterey officials would also be
> reaching out to Union Pacific as a possible
> provider of the new passenger service, but the
> railway stopped all of its passenger trains in the
> U.S. in 1971."
There is definitely a need to extend the commute service to Salinas and I could see some kind of commute connection from Hollister to the Gilroy station. The comment about haing UP provide the service shows how detached from reality so many of these people are.
C
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> One thing I don't get is that Caltrain is
> currently running only 3 trains a day in either
> direction down to Gilroy...is there really a
> demand for them to go further south when they're
> hardly running as it is?
>
> Also: " One Salinas city councilmember last week
> said that Monterey officials would also be
> reaching out to Union Pacific as a possible
> provider of the new passenger service, but the
> railway stopped all of its passenger trains in the
> U.S. in 1971."
There is definitely a need to extend the commute service to Salinas and I could see some kind of commute connection from Hollister to the Gilroy station. The comment about haing UP provide the service shows how detached from reality so many of these people are.
C
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