Caltrain Construction at Burlingame Station to Require Road Closure

Caltrain will be doing construction at the Burlingame Caltrain Station to improve safety, pedestrian access and make train service more efficient. In order to make necessary platform improvements at this station, South Lane will be closed permanently at the railroad crossing.

The City of Burlingame will hold a public hearing on Feb. 22 at 7 p.m., at city hall, 501 Primrose Road, in Burlingame, to receive comments on the street closure. South Lane will remain open until early summer 2007.

Project Description

The current Burlingame station configuration only allows one train to be in the station at a time, which delays service and requires crossing gates at adjoining streets to be down for a prolonged period of time.

This project will replace the current center-boarding platform with outside boarding platforms on both sides of the tracks. A new center-fence between the train tracks, will improve safety, by preventing pedestrians from crossing the tracks, except at designated crossing areas, which will be protected with pedestrian crossing arms, bells and lights.

When construction is complete, passenger safety will be improved, trains will no longer block North Lane, and traffic delay-time at tracks near the station will be reduced.

Approximately 60 percent of the traffic that uses South Lane will be redirected to Howard Avenue, while the rest will cross the tracks at North Lane. Both West and East lanes will remain open, allowing traffic access along either side of the tracks.

Construction is tentatively scheduled to begin during the summer of 2007 and will last approximately one year. The street closure will be conducted under Chapter 3 of the Public Streets, Highways, and Service Easement Vacation Law (Streets & Highways Code §§8300 et seq).

Questions about this can be directed to Caltrain Project Manager Al Fung, 650.508.7790.

Please refer to the following maps for an overview of changes.

02/09/06 - JBW