The proposed dinner train between Santa Cruz and Davenport could be in trouble. The original plan was to use state funding to purchase the train tracks and add hiking and bicycle paths along the tracks. Any planned passenger service would be postponed until some future date.
The proposed dinner train between Santa Cruz and Davenport could be in trouble. The original plan was to use state funding to purchase the train tracks and add hiking and bicycle paths along the tracks. Any planned passenger service would be postponed until some future date.
But that’s not good enough for California, which already has $743 million in transportation projects on hold. In order to receive funding, the state wants the project to include passenger service immediately. It has also asked the county to state where it would get alternative funding if only some of the money is allotted to the project.
The preservation project is slated to cost just over $14 million. Much of that—about $10 million—would have come from voter-approved Proposition 116, with the remainder coming from state transportation money promised to the county several years ago. Proposition 116 is scheduled to expire in June. Read more at Santa Cruz Sentinel.
