The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors needs to vote Tuesday to move forward with the coastal rail-trail project, writes Matt Farrell, board chair of Santa Cruz County Friends of the Rail and Trail. If not, our community won’t meet the state’s requirements to receive nearly $68 million in state grant funding, he says. Two supervisors, Manu Koenig and Bruce McPherson, voted no on the most recent round.
Matt Farrell
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Supervisors McPherson and Koenig are wildly out of step with community on rail trail; they need to listen to voters
Matt Farrell, board chair for Santa Cruz County Friends of the Rail & Trail, takes a pair of county supervisors to task for voting against a staff recommendation to approve next steps for two segments of the Coastal Rail Trail. “In multiple elections and over several years,” he writes, “voters in Santa Cruz County have been crystal clear about their support for both a trail today and rail in the future.”