FOS Freight Group: 2025 SMART Freight Budget

Friends of SMART (FoS) Freight Group recommends that the following items be added to the Freight section of the 2025 SMART draft budget.  The transportation of freight is a business function of the railroad and as such has different issues and requirements than does the passenger side of the operation.

There is an obsolete and what many call a misleading study from 2021 now posted in the Documents section of the SMART website.  People with knowledge of the study, question whether the company (person) conducting the study actually did have “boots on the ground” in Sonoma County when the study was conducted.   Therefore, we recommend the following be included as “Actions” or “Goals” in the Draft.

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