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FW: Re Tonight's consent item - Railroad Safety Trail
From: Marx, Jan
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 11:23 AM
To: Mejia, Anthony
Subject: FW: Re Tonight's consent item - Railroad Safety Trail
agenda correspondence
Jan Marx
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Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 8:57 AM
To: Marx, Jan; Smith, Kathy; Christianson, Carlyn; Carpenter, Dan; Ashbaugh, John
Cc: Mandeville, Peggy; Grigsby, Daryl; Van Beveren, Daniel
Subject: Re Tonight's consent item - Railroad Safety Trail
Dear Mayor Marx and Councilmembers Ashbaugh, Carpenter, Christianson and Smith:
Re: The San Luis Obispo County Bicycle Coalition supports the Railroad Safety Trail Taft to Phillips, Specification No. 9
1111, on tonight's consent calendar.
We applaud your staff for developing a creative interim solution to extending the Railroad Safety Trail from its terminus at
Taft Street to Phillips Lane and ask you to support it. We're pleased that Caltrans approved using the $153,000 balance of
Bicycle Transportation Account grant funding originally intended for a new bridge from the railroad tracks from a point
behind the California Highway Patrol's California Boulevard headquarters to the intersection of Pepper Street and Phillips
Lane for this project.
The Bicycle Coalition will continue working with the City Bicycle Advisory Committee and city staff on a permanent
solution. We appreciate the city's long and challenging negotiations with Union Pacific Railroad and are hopeful that an
agreement for a bridge will be reached. A safe and convenient route that connects the Cal Poly campus to downtown San
Luis Obispo is crucial in encouraging more people to bicycle.
Sincerely,
Lea Brooks, Chair
SLO County Bicycle Coalition Advocacy Team