Hayward City Council to hold Jan. 28 work session on plans to relocate Capitol Corridor rail service, eliminate Hayward station
Photo curtesy of wikipedia by Pi.1415926535
The Hayward City Council will hold a public work session on Jan. 28 so it and Hayward community members can hear directly from the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority (CCJPA) and provide input on the agency’s plans to relocate Capitol Corridor rail service and eliminate the service’s Hayward station.
In November, the board of directors of the CCJPA certified the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on the project, which is a pre-requisite to but not the final decision on whether the project will move forward. Under the plan, the rail service would move to the railroad closer to the San Francisco Bay shoreline and bypass without replacing the service’s Hayward station on Meekland Avenue.
In July, the City wrote an extensive letter as part of the EIR process noting shortcomings of the environmental review, concerns related to the station closure, the likelihood the project would result in more disruptive freight train traffic through the City and other issues.
Capitol Corridor rail service connects cities from San Jose to Auburn and is the main public transit line between the Bay Area and Sacramento. The CCJPA is made up of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, BART, Solano Transportation Authority, Yolo County Transportation District, Sacramento Regional Transit District and Placer County Transportation Authority.
For more information about the relocation project, called South Bay Connect, go online here to the resources page on CCJPA website.
