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Dumbarton Rail Corridor
When train service starts on the Dumbarton rail corridor in 2012,
it will link the Peninsula with the East Bay over a now-defunct
rail bridge. Funded by the San Mateo County Transportation
Authority and other transit organizations,
the project is in its
final stage of environmental impact studies. Construction is
estimated to begin in 2009.
The service will connect Caltrain, the Altamont Commuter Express,
Amtrak’s Capitol Corridor and BART. It also will connect with
East Bay bus systems at a multimodal transit center in Union City.
Each morning, six trains will leave Union City, travel through
Fremont and Newark and then cross the rebuilt bridge, with
three trains headed north to San Francisco and three headed
south to San Jose. The six trains will reverse their paths for the
afternoon commute.
The reconstruction of the rail corridor will include track
improvements, new stations, a centralized traffic control
system, and a new moveable rail bridge to allow for ship
traffic on the bay.
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