Caltrain construction, maintenance update, Sept. 11-17

At the Santa Clara Station Improvement Project, work will be done this week on the shoring and the foundation for the new pedestrian underpass at the station. The underpass will connect the north- and southbound platforms, allowing two trains to pass through the station at the same time and improving safety for pedestrians in the station. Passengers at the station are boarding the train from a temporary platform.

The work is part of an
18-month station improvement project that will add a new wider, longer
center-boarding platform and extend the southern platform 150 feet.

Work continues on a VTA
project that will improve safety at eight grade crossings in Sunnyvale,
Mountain View and Palo Alto. Sept. 11-17, crews will work at Mary and Sunnyvale
avenues. Work will include foundation and signal work.

Sept. 12-16, crews will
replace crossties between the Millbrae and Hayward Park stations. Sept. 11-17,
crews will remove and replace rail, and install track panels and spikes between
the crossings at Bayswater Avenue in Burlingame and Poplar Avenue in San Mateo.
This is follow-up work being done in support of the rail replacement work that
has taken place over the previous weekends.

Sept. 12-16, crews will weld and surface the tracks between
Belmont and San Antonio stations. On Sept. 12, crews will weld the tracks near
the San Jose Diridon station. Sept. 16-Sept. 17, crews will do signal work
between the San Jose Diridon and Tamien stations.