ELECTRIFICATION & MODERNIZATION
Agency announced a $164.5 million
investment from the Transit and Intercity
Rail Capital Program, which
will support the replacement of
Caltrain’s diesel fl eet, the addition
of Wi-Fi onboard the new electric
fl eet and enhanced bicycle facilities
at the Caltrain stations.
Th e initial Peninsula Corridor
Electrifi cation Project had the
funds to replace 75 percent of the
fl eet with electric trains. Th is additional
funding will allow Caltrain
to fully electrify its mainline service
between San Francisco and San Jose.
Th e grant will also provide for
the lengthening of boarding platforms
at some stations, to accommodate
longer, 8-car electric trains.
Once fully electrifi ed,they will
have better operating characteristics
to stop more, to have longer
trainsets and to operate more trains.
“Because of the number of
stops that we have, it was important
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Th ey’ve worked closely with
community leaders and elected
offi cials through standing community
groups that they meet on
a monthly basis to provide updates
and they have both physical notices
and electronic updates for residents.
Fromson said being committed
to an inclusive outreach process has
meant investing the time and resources
to be where the people are
to get good feedback on the project.
Key to this communication is
keeping people informed of what
they’re doing, why they’re doing it
and what it’s going to look like after
it’s done. Funghi said, “I think
communication is a big challenge
and if we do it well, it will help
with the construction and acceptance
of the overall line.”
Electrifying benefits
At the end of April of this year, the
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to us to have the operating
characteristics that we do
so that we could run our same
routes more quickly,” he said. “It
gives us the opportunity to have
the combination of running the
same schedule in terms of number
of stops, but it doesn’t take you as
long, so you can still have some
quick service with more stops or
you can have the same service,
just going more quickly.”
SINCE 2004,
Caltrain ridership
has more than
doubled.
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