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Remembering Sgt. Gutzwiller O n June 4, the Beyond the Call of Duty End of Watch Ride to Remember stopped at the Santa Cru County Sheriff’s Office headquarters at 5200 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, to honor fallen Sergeant Damon Gutzwiller. For 84 days between May 28 and Aug. 19, six motorcycle riders are traveling 22,300 miles across the country visiting cities and police departments to honor 338 men and women of law enforcement who paid the ultimate price in their service in 2020. End of Watch Ride to Remember, motorcycle riders from the state of Washington, escort a 41-foot trailer bearing photos of fallen officers from the previous year. The spokesperson and founder, Damon Gutzwiller Jagrut Shah, a former deputy, said, “I wanted to bridge this gap that we have and bring back to the department and let the officers and their families know that their loss has not been forgotten.” For info, visit www.endofwatchride.com
The memorial, End of Watch Ride to Remember, is organized by a group founded by a retired deputy, Jagrut Shah.
“Pro: Rail & Trail” from page 22 Imagine traveling stress free and car free between where you live and San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles or anywhere else in CA or the USA.(11) So what should happen to the rail corridor? We should use it for transit service and a great trail! Pausing this project threatens our ability to address worsening traffic and congestion, address climate change and improve the quality of life in our community. It is clear expanded transit, especially rail transit, is a priority for funding at the state and federal level. We threaten our ability to bring this money home by not moving forwards.
The trailer bears photos of officers who lost their lives while on duty in 2020.
Join Friends of the Rail & Trail, the Sierra Club, Bike Santa Cruz County, Youth for Climate Justice, the City Council of Santa Cruz, the City Council of Watsonville, the Monterey/Santa Cruz Counties Building & Construction Trades Council, the Santa Cruz County Democratic Party Central Committee, the Pajaro Valley Cesar Chavez Democratic Club, the Democratic Women’s Club of Santa Cruz County Environmental Committee, the San Lorenzo Valley Women’s Club Environmental Committee, the Campus Democrats at UCSC, and Roaring Camp Railroads and many other local organizations and businesses in promoting a rail and trail today! n ••• 1-Predicted travel times between destinations from the RTFS are: Watsonville — Santa Cruz 40
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minutes; Aptos Village — Santa Cruz 18 minutes; Capitola Village — Santa Cruz 11 minutes. 2-County of Santa Cruz — Greenhouse gas emissions Inventories and emissions reduction targets. Tables 2.1 and 2.2. http://www.sccoplanning. com/Portals/2/County/Planning/policy/Climate%20 Action%20Strategy/2.0.pdf?ver=Ez5JfoXNLQ2WS8wjOCC_Q%3d%3d 3-TCAA/RNIS Table 5.21 Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions 4-EPA Equivalency Calculator https://www.epa. gov/energy/greenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calculator 5-Fact sheet for the Current Rail Trail Plan https://sccrtc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/FactSheet_MBSST_Coastal-Rail-Trail.pdf 6-$41M estimated cost to reverse policy. UCIS Appendix B, Table B-13: Trail Only 7-Pre-covid METRO annual reports indicate there are about 5,000,000 annual boardings on the
bus 2 system or about 13,700 boardings per day. The TCAA/RNIS (Table 5.19) predicts adding LRT will increase use of public transit countywide to 34,300 boardings per day. Doing the math: 34,300 / 13,700 = 250% 8-See highest priority item 30 in the 2021 Final Draft Unmet Paratransit and Transit Needs prepared by 6 the Elderly and Disabled Transportation Advisory Committee of the RTC. Linked here: https:// sccrtc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Final-DraftUnmet-Needs-List-w-RTC-edits.pdf 9-TCAA/RNIS Table 5.9: Safety Performance Measures 10-https://www.flipsnack.com/sctrafficsafety/ the-impact-of-traffic-violence-on-santa-cruz-county.html 11-2018 SRP and TAMC’s RNIS both illustrate the future regional and state rail networks to which the 12Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line connects at the Watsonville Junction
