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SALINAS, Calif.- New information on the proposed Monterey Salinas transit hub on the former Fort Ord. It's not happening.
Late Tuesday, Monterey County Supervisors pulled the plug on these plans.
MST said with the decision tuesday, the much needed transit center is on hold indefinitely.
Supervisors initially signed off on the new transit hub, a lot of people spoke out against cutting down thousands of oaks trees to build the new bus center and gathered 18,000 signatures from the community in opposition.
Those signatures would have put the issue before voters in this year's general election.
But Tuesday, county supervisors rescinded their approval of the project, saying MST needs to find a different location for the transit center.
MST said it doesn't have a place to develop now and the alternatives sites that were mentioned were either undeveloped open space or already spoken for by other developers.
It will cost anywhere from $750,000 to $1 million dollars to move the existing design to another site, that's money MST doesn't have. The federal loan money it was counting on to build the new transit center is gone because the project has no location now.
