California State Rail Plan 2007-08 to 2017-18

2007-08 – 2017-18 California State Rail Planresponsibilities included planning, marketing, engineering and design, fare andschedule setting, performance monitoring, and customer service.In 1987, the commuter rail service was renamed “Caltrain” and the City andCounty of San Francisco, San Mateo County Transit District (SamTrans), and theSanta Clara County Transit Agency (now called VTA) formed the PeninsulaCorridor Joint Powers Board (JPB) and transferred administrative responsibility ofthe Peninsula Commute Service from the State to the local level.In July 1992, the JPB took over the management of Caltrain from the State andcontracted with Amtrak to operate the Caltrain commuter rail service. At the sametime, SamTrans officially assumed the operation and administration of the JPB.Service in 1980 consisted of 22 weekday round-trip trains from San Francisco toSan Jose. Under JPB management, service has increased to 96 weekday trips.An extension to Gilroy with two weekday round-trips was added in 1992, withservice later expanded to four round-trips. Baby Bullet express service was addedin 2004.ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTUREThe JPB currently includes representatives from San Francisco, San Mateo, andSanta Clara counties. The JPB consists of nine members and each county hasthree members on the board. The San Francisco members represent the mayor’soffice, the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors and the San FranciscoMunicipal Transportation Agency. The San Mateo members represent SamTransBoard of Directors and the Santa Clara members represent the VTA, and the citiesof San Jose and Santa Clara. Staff from the San Mateo County Transit Districtprovides administrative support to the JPB.The JPB contracts with Amtrak to operate service on the corridor betweenSan Francisco and Gilroy. As part of this agreement, Amtrak is responsible forday-to-day operation and maintenance of the trains. The Caltrain commuterservice is awarded on a competitive basis. SamTrans continues to operate andadminister the service for the JPB.ROUTE AND SERVICE DESCRIPTIONCaltrain operates seven days a week on 77 miles of track owned by the JPB fromSan Francisco and San Jose and by UP from San Jose to Gilroy, and serves19 cities with 32 stations between San Francisco, San Jose, and Gilroy inSan Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties. The system has a mixture oflocal, limited, and express trains and serves work centers in San Francisco, thePeninsula, and Silicon Valley including developing residential areas in southernSanta Clara County. Caltrain operates 96 trains on weekdays betweenSan Francisco and San Jose. Of the 96 trains, 22 are Express trains (known as theBaby Bullet) that serve 12 stations. Forty-eight provide limited service to morestations than the express service, and 26 operate as local service. Scheduled152