Thursday, February 2, 2012

City of San Jose's Trail Manager to speak at Save Our Trails Meeting

Save Our Trails Monthly Meeting

Photo: Willow Glen Charm
Save our Trails a local group of trail enthusiasts are hosting Yves Zsutty, Trail Manager for the City of San Jose at their Monthly meeting on Monday February 13, from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the Willow Glen Baptist Church (see map for details).

Save Our Trails (SOT) was created to protect the Willow Glen Spur Rail from development leaving it open to be developed as a community trail. The rail featured prominently in San Jose history connecting the canneries just to the north of Willow Glen with the main rail lines out of the city. Their work establish funding sources for the city to buy the rail right of way for the Western Alignment from Union Pacific Railroad. Mr. Zsutty will also highlight the rail trestle over the Los Gatos Creek between Lonus St. and Coe Avenue which will be closed for safety reasons while performing a retrofit study.

Photo: City of San Josae
He will also make a short presentation on completion of the acquisition of parcels from Lonus Street to Minnesota Avenue and update SOT on current work to define interim trail use of the land, the study, and retrofit of the trestle structure as well as next steps.  A brief overview of other trail development efforts now underway in San Jose will be provided."

Additionally March 12, 2012 will be the date for the group's Annual Meeting. Plans are to have honored speakers, membership opportunities, elections, yummy food, and music.

Save the date and Save Our Trails.


      You can find directions and the meeting agenda at http://www.saveourtrails-scc.org/
Posted by Unknown at 12:35 PM

1 comment:

  1. UnknownFebruary 8, 2012 at 6:40 PM

    Carlos - It looks like there is a gigantic amount that still needs to be done to attempt to get the land back that UPRR sold along the eastern alignment, to get the city and others to push for a bridge or tunnel past all the RR tracks and not push us onto an Alma bikeway instead.

    IMHO, they don't realize that we want multiple pedestrian and biking options, especially in an east/west fashion!

    Lastly, in a similar vein, it's too bad the city has no desire to spend money to save the land just west of Senter between Minnesota and Keyes.

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