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Environmental work underway on Mid-Coast Corridor Trolley extension
Construction to begin on Trestles Bridge replacement project
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Week Corporate Challenge
University City bus route changes announced
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Energy Day and Street
Smart San Diego
Murph Express Premium bus service gets ready to ride
Back to SchoolPool!
Environmental work underway on 
Mid-Coast Corridor Trolley extension
Work is underway on the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement/Subsequent Environmental Impact Report (Draft SEIS/SEIR) for the Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project. This document will assess the potential environmental impacts of the project and propose mitigation measures to address these impacts. Once completed, the Draft SEIS/SEIR will be made available to the public for review and comment. It is anticipated that the public review period will occur in summer 2011.
In fall 2010, SANDAG will submit an application to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to gain approval to enter preliminary engineering for the Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project. This application also will serve to get the project into the “pipeline” for federal New Starts funding.
On Friday, July 23, 2010, the SANDAG Board selected a route for the future extension of the San Diego Trolley from the Old Town Transit Center to the University of California, San Diego and University Towne Centre.
In a unanimous vote, the Board reconfirmed the previously selected alternative for the Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project with the selection of Light Rail Transit Alternative 1, which would extend trolley service north from Old Town Transit Center along the existing rail corridor just east of I-5, cross over I-5 south of Nobel Drive and continue on to serve UCSD, then cross to the east side of I-5 at or near Voigt Drive and head south along Genesee Avenue to a transit center at University Towne Centre.
The $1.2 billion, 11-mile extension to the region’s light rail system is expected to increase regional transit ridership by 20,000 boardings a day. Half of the funds needed to build the voter-approved project have been dedicated from the TransNet Extension half-cent sales tax. SANDAG will seek matching funds for the project from the Federal Transit Administration. Construction could begin as soon as 2013, and the line could be in operation as soon as 2015.
More information is available at sandag.org/midcoast.
Project Manager
Leslie Blanda, Project Development Program Manager
Phone: (619) 699-6907, E-mail: lbl@sandag.org