Modern Rail Transit

 From: Paul Schoellhamer Subject: Ballot for the June 7 Primary Election,  May 16, 2022 at 8:04:24 PM PDT I’ve been asked if I have any recommendations for the June 7 election. Most of it seems rather straightforward — unusually uncomplicated for a California ballot. But there is one local initiative that could use some de-mystifying — Measure D, which is a question posed to the voters of Santa Cruz County. Upfront, my recommendation is NO on Measure D. You can read below as much of the explanation as you can tolerate. Like many voters, I have two objectives I’m trying to accomplish on this issue. First, I want more trail built sooner. And second, I don’t want transit rail now, but I think it irresponsible to take the transit rail option away from those who will be living in our community 10, 20, 30 years in the future. The campaigning on this issue has been confusing on its best days and outright deceptive most days. The train-haters want to yammer endlessly about the train, ...