New Canaan Trains

Governor Rell is proposing shutting down the New Canaan train line (& Danbury line) in order to save $5 million. Is she nuts?

Read this New Canaan Advertiser article - http://www.acorn-online.com/joomla15/ncadvertiser/news/localnews/78264-rail-commuter-council-governors-proposal-to-cut-rail-service-a-turkey.html

This branch line is vital for New Canaan. Without it, property values would suffer as people would find the NYC commute very difficult & potential new residents would seek other "more accessible" communities. Without stable/rising property values, local tax revenue would decline and this would hurt New Canaan schools & government services (i.e. road repair and police protection).

While this proposal is probably just a negotiating tactic in order to focus voter attention on the state's budgetary problems, I would suggest contacting your local legislators & protest this very short-sighted proposal.

This League of Women Voters has links to New Canaan's state representatives - http://www.lwvct.org/voters/towns.htm

Email New Canaan's town officials & have them organize against this legislation - http://www.newcanaan.info/content/9488/9220/871/default.aspx

Also contact the new Governor (Dan Malloy) - http://danmalloy.com/

Also sent a note to the departing Governor (Jodi Rell) - http://www.ct.gov/governorrell/site/default.asp

Will