Caltrain Installation Project Planned in Burlingame Next Week

Caltrain is planning daytime work in Burlingame and overnight installation work elsewhere next week.

While Caltrain promises that workers will be as quiet as possible, neighbors may hear a racket from the equipment.

Here’s what’s planned:

Communications Based Overlay Signal System (CBOSS) Positive Train Control (PTC) Project

The CBOSS PTC Project is an advanced signal system that will equip the corridor and trains with federally-mandated safety technology and will increase system capacity to help accommodate future ridership demand.

The project will monitor and, if necessary, control train movement in the event of human error. This will increase safety by:

• Eliminating the risk of train-to-train collisions.
• Reducing risk of potential derailments by enforcing speed limits.
• Providing additional safety for railroad workers on the tracks.
  

• Improving grade crossing performance to reduce gate downtime and improve local traffic circulation.

The CBOSS PTC Project is also a key component of the Caltrain Modernization Program, which will electrify the Caltrain Corridor by 2019. An electrified Caltrain will be cleaner and quieter and will upgrade the system to provide faster and/or more frequent service to more stations and riders.

To implement the project, Caltrain will be identifying utilities, digging a small trench and/or boring close to the tracks to install fiber optic cable. In order to maintain daytime train service, Caltrain will be performing some of this work at night.

Millbrae and Burlingame
Day work will occur Oct. 27 – Oct. 31 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. to identify utility lines and/or install conduit for fiber optic cable. Crews will work as quietly as possible.

San Bruno, San Mateo, Belmont, San Carlos and Redwood City (north of the Dumbarton Spur)
Night work will occur Oct. 26 – Oct. 30 from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Crews will be boring and/or digging a small trench to install conduit for fiber optic cable. Lights will be used in the area to help provide visibility. Neighbors may experience some minor installation noise during this time. Crews will work as quietly as possible.

--Information Source: Caltrain

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