A new bus route will open on February 12, connecting the slums of East Palo Alto to other parts of San Mateo County.
The “Dos Rios” infill station on Sacramento light rail was approved earlier this month.
Future Dos Rios Light Rail Station
SacRT is currently out to bid for a contractor for the future Dos Rios Light Rail Station, which will be located on North 12th Street between Richards Boulevard and Sunbeam Avenue in the city of Sacramento. The SacRT Board of Directors approved funding the new station on January 8, 2024
Here is the current project schedule:
- Station construction bids are due Thursday, February 22, 2024
- Board approval of construction contract is expected in April or May 2024
- Construction contract expected to be executed mid to late summer 2024
- Estimated 2.5 years for construction
Once a contractor is selected, SacRT will begin public outreach efforts on the new station construction.
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The Baja California railroad is expected to connect to the San Ysidro trolley station in San Diego (on the US-Mexico border).
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There has been another earth slippage that has disrupted train travel on the busy San Diego-Los Angeles Amtrak corridor (which is also served here by Metrolink trains between Los Angeles and Oceanside).
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It just keeps happening, again and again!
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These storms are not helping.
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Possibly extension of Caltrain south of the Bay Area
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New Amtrak station in Oakley, California is now scheduled to open in August 2025.
It will replace the Antioch station, which is plagued with various safety issues.
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Caltrain will launch electric trains on 21 Sep 2024
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Construction has commenced on the BART extension to downtown San Jose and Santa Clara. A wonderful day for the South Bay!
More: Santa Ana-Garden Grove streetcar will open about a year from now
Photos by Joe Linton / Streetblog
More: status of construction of northern extension of “SMART” train in Sonoma County, California
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In Los Angeles, Aviation/Century light-rail station will open next month. It will initially be served by trains to both Redondo Beach and Norwalk, while there will remain a gap in service to the north. Direct Redondo Beach-Norwalk service will end.
The LAX shuttle bus will continue to only go to Aviation/LAX station.
In Sacramento, they’ve started construction on the infill “Dos Rios” station on the light-rail network. It is expected to open in December 2026.
https://www.sacrt.com/dosrios/
The new station will be between the existing Globe and Alkali Flat stations on the Blue Line.
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This project was downgraded so much…sigh. And in the future they’ll have to expand it anyway and it’s gonna be quadruple the price. lol
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Infill station on the Sonoma-Marin regional rail line will open on January 10, 2025.
This is in Sonoma County, north of San Francisco.
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Love to hear any updates on SMART. That’s where I grew up and my folks are still in the area. Once it expands to Sonoma, Napa, Vallejo, and the mainline in Fairfield/Suisun, it could completely transform how people get into/out of/around the North Bay.
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Speaking of big expansions, the latest update to the California DOT long range state rail plan is a thing of beauty. Here’s the long-term vision net graph of a fully built out CA rail network:
Some highlights and points of interest I got excited about:
- Hourly HSR service to Arizona via Palm Springs
- HSR branches in SoCal with hourly service to San Bernardino and Riverside in addition to the half-hourly San Diego route
- Half-hourly HSR service to Las Vegas from the Bay Area/Central Valley
- Hourly direct service to Las Vegas from LA and San Diego (although LA riders can also get there with a transfer in Palmdale)
- New Transbay tunnel carrying HSR to Oakland and Richmond
- Electrified Capitol Corridor with unified service from Roseville to Salina via Sacramento, Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose
- Full build-out of SMART, with the project page suggesting the possibility of a one-seat rides from Marin/Sonoma/Napa to Sacramento HSR. (In a perfect world, this is how I’d get home to see my family from SoCal.)
- Pulse scheduling with timed transfers throughout the system
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It fills me with profound sadness, Marshall, that even if I live to be a supercentenarian I will not be able to enjoy the services of that map you posted. How do you maintain your optimism?
But if I manage to hang on for another two decades I might be able to ride the BART under downtown San Jose.
Groundbreaking will be in February 2025 with revenue service scheduled to begin in 2037, anticipating 12 years of construction! But I doubt 2037 is possible given the anticipated dearth of budgeting and scheduling discipline, so a fair expectation is that this will open in the early to mid-2040s.
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