The joint town/county rail station task force, which has been given the task of recommending a passenger train stop location in northern Orange County to elected officials next month, has made a decision.
Last night the task force whittled down seven original site choices to two, and one of them — the Collins property — will be recommended as the site to develop.
But, of course, there's a caveat. Both residents who attended an open house earlier this month and several task force members have said that they would prefer to find a way to build on the old depot site, where Nash and Eno streets meet. But that site is likely too costly to acceptably handle a modern station, they said.
However, not knowing the costs of fixing roads, grading land and other engineering specifics, task force members said they can't be sure that the depot site would be any more expensive than fixing the Collins site, which the Town of Hillsborough purchased last year but still has no direct road access.
Look for more in next week's News of Orange.
See what ended up on The News of Orange County's cutting room floor.
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