California State Rail Plan 2005-06 to 2015-16

2005-06 – 2015-16 California State Rail Plan
The Auburn-Oakland Regional Rail Service Concept Plan (Plan) was released in
June 2005. The Plan was endorsed by the group’s steering committee in
September 2005. This Plan contains a near-term and a long-term implementation
action plan. However, at this time the UP will not participate in any further
capacity modeling for potential new passenger rail services due to major freight
congestion problems the railroad is experiencing within this and other corridors.
The Plan includes three-phases, with a first phase in 2010, planned to add four
new Sacramento-Oakland round-trips. The second phase planned for 2015, would
include four new Sacramento-Auburn round-trips and one additional Oakland to
Sacramento round-trip. When mixed with Capitol Corridor trains, 30-minute
intervals (headways) would be provided during peak periods in both directions.
The third phase, planned for 2020 would add new stations, primarily in the
Sacramento metropolitan area. Daily ridership of 6,900 is projected by
implementation of the third phase.
Auburn-Oakland Regional Rail would initially serve all existing stations along the
Capitol Corridor: Auburn, Rocklin, Roseville, Sacramento, Davis,
Suisun/Fairfield, Martinez, Richmond, Berkeley, Emeryville, and Oakland.
Additional station stops would be phased in at Bowman (5 miles north of Auburn),
Antelope, Swanston, West Sacramento, Dixon, Fairfield/Vacaville, Benicia, and
Hercules for a total of 19 stations.
The Plan projects the total cost of operating and maintaining the Regional Rail
service to be approximately $15.5 million annually, including fees paid to the UP
and Amtrak, vehicle and station maintenance, and administrative expenses. The
capital requirements, including new rolling stock, track work and signals, stations
and parking, and maintenance facility and other system wide improvements, are
estimated to cost $380 million. The Plan anticipates that the funding for Regional
Rail will come from a mix of sources including Federal New Starts funds, CMAQ
or RSTP, State discretionary funds, the Capitol Corridor, and other local funds.
The project is authorized in SAFETEA-LU, under the New Starts Program for
Alternatives Analysis/Preliminary Engineering.
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