County Executive Hein continues to harass the Catskill Mt.RR. He has
"blinked" a little from our enthusiastic support for the RR. He has agreed to
the 2 mile run from Kingston Plaza to Hurley, but he wants to rip up the tracks
from Hurley to Mt.Pleasant (ie.around the Ashokan Resevoir) for a trail. The RR
wants to continue to volunteer to referbish the 6 miles of track from Hurley to
Glenford, which will allow Adult Dinner Rides and transportation for tourists
from Kingston Plaza to the Ashokan Reservoir. Tourists would park at Kingston Plaza, take the train to the Reservoir, and come back to
Kingston Plaza to get their cars, to local hotels and restaurants and spend
money in Kingston.
The fight goes on. The following Freeman article describes the latest on Ulster County's court harassment of CMRR from County Legislator Dave Donaldson's point of view.
