HUTCH 7.62 Wrote:
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> Howard Wrote:
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> > Keith Ode Wrote:
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> > > What freight revenue traffic is expected to
> > > traverse the line between Santa Cruz and
> > > Watsonville? I don't understand the
> > > justification in spending money to open a
> line
> > > with no potential freight traffic. By the
> > time
> > > they repair the washout near Harkins Slough,
> > more
> > > damage will have been done. All of the grade
> > > crossings need repair or replacement. The
> > > wooden trestles in Aptos and Capitola were
> > swaying
> > > and falling apart twenty years ago. I'll
> > never
> > > forget walking under one of those trestles in
> > 2004
> > > after shooting the Cruz and being hit in the
> > > shoulder by a chunk of falling wood.
> >
> > The Regional Transportation Commission
> purchased
> > the Santa Cruz Branch Rail line with Prop 116
> > funds for passenger rail. That is the
> > justification. I am looking forward to the
> light
> > rail demonstration later this year.
> >
> >
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> Is that thing battery powered?


Yes, hydrogen fuel cell.