Pending Stockton Avenue Grade Crossing Closure

EXISTING CONDITIONS

• 5-Track crossing, 3 heavily used mainlines and a control siding
• Skewed crossing angle reduces visibility to both trains and vehicles
• High volume rail traffic.
• Low vehicular, bicyclist, and pedestrian volume.
• 2 Grade Separated crossings within 1000' of Stockton Ave.
• Hedding O.P. to the north
• W. Taylor U.P. to the south
• Each will accommodate both pedestrians and bicyclists.

• Caltrain stops at College Park Station
• Occasionally, UPRR freight trains are stopped for extended periods (20 minutes or longer)
• Trains access ACE storage tracks

• Summer 2004 117 trains total. Summer 2005 123 trains total.
• CCJPA intends to add 6 more trains per day in the next few years
• ACE intends to add 2 trains in the near future
• Caltrain will increase service as ridership demands
• UPRR will increase service as business demands

Improve Safety, Eliminate Risk:
• There are 25 broken gates per year
• There are 2 to 3 train/vehicle incidents per year
• There has been 1 fatality at this crossing
• Numerous reported near-misses or close calls

• Engineers will no longer blow train horn when approaching and moving through crossing.
• Grade crossing warning bells & lights will be removed.
• Bells ring a total of 2 hours per day for Caltrain's 86 trains alone.
• Bells may ring up to 20 minutes when UPRR trains block the crossing.
• Eliminate noise of idling vehicles stopped at the crossing.

• Close Stockton Avenue at rail corridor.
• Fence each side of railroad corridor at crossing.
• Make improvements including curb and gutter, striping, signage, and landscaping improvements to Stockton & University and Stockton & Emory intersections.

• Altamont Commuter Express (ACE)
• Amtrak
• Caltrain
• Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority (CCJPA)
• Union Pacific Railroad
• Bellarmine College Preparatory
• California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
• Central Concrete
• City of San Jose
• Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA)