Guest Commentary | Rebuttal to op-ed: ‘Legacy’ rail means ‘not in our lifetime’

Guest Commentary | Rebuttal to op-ed: ‘Legacy’ rail means ‘not in our lifetime’

By Nadene Thorne Matt Farrell, the pitchman for Friends of the Rail and On-Street Bike Network (OK, actually it’s FORT – Friends of the Rail and Trail, but that last epithet is mostly aspirational), must think we Santa Cruz residents fell off the Brussels sprouts truck yesterday. Mr. Farrell (Guest Commentary, “Rail and trail a commitment worth the cost,” April 9) continues to attempt to sell us a passenger train by telling us that the down paym…