File #: 2022-0129   
Type: Project Status: Non-Calendar
File created: 2/25/2022 In control: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
On agenda: 8/25/2022 Final action: 8/25/2022
Title: CONSIDER: A. RECEIVING the Rail to River Segment B Supplemental Alternative Analysis Study Findings; and B. APPROVING the recommendation to maintain Randolph Street as the preferred alignment and continue coordination with Corridor Cities and Related Projects. DUTRA AMENDMENT: Return to the Board in October 2022 with a funding plan to further develop "Rail to River" Segment B, including environmental clearance, design, and construction.
Sponsors: Planning and Programming Committee
Indexes: Alignment, Alternatives analysis, Bell, Bicycle lanes, Bicycling, Bikeways, Budgeting, City of Los Angeles, Commerce, Construction, Curbs, First/Last Mile, Florence, Funding plan, Gateway Cities (Southeast LA County) Service Sector, Gateway Cities subregion, Grant Aid, Huntington Park, Light rail transit, Los Angeles County Department Of Public Works, Los Angeles River, Maps, Maywood, Metro Active Transport (MAT) project, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, Outreach, Pedestrians, Project, Rail to Rail/River Active Transportation Corridor Project, Regional transportation, Safety, Slauson Station, Strategic planning, Union Pacific Railroad, Vehicle miles of travel, Vehicle sharing, West Santa Ana Branch Transit Corridor, West Santa Ana Branch Transit Corridor (WSAB) Project
Attachments: 1. Attachment A - Map of Segment B & WSAB Overlay, 2. Attachment B - SAA Executive Summary, 3. Attachment C - Map of Rail to Rail-River Active Transportation Corridor, 4. Attachment D - Map of 2016 Segment B Alternatives Studied, 5. Attachment E - Map of Study Area, 6. Attachment F - Map of Four Alternatives Studied in SAA, 7. Attachment G - Letters of Support, 8. Attachment H - SAA Recommended Randolph Improvements, 9. Presentation
Related files: 2022-0653
Meeting_Body
REVISED
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
AUGUST 17, 2022

Subject
SUBJECT: RAIL TO RIVER ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR - SEGMENT B

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS

Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
CONSIDER:

A. RECEIVING the Rail to River Segment B Supplemental Alternative Analysis Study Findings; and

B. APPROVING the recommendation to maintain Randolph Street as the preferred alignment and continue coordination with Corridor Cities and Related Projects.

DUTRA AMENDMENT: Return to the Board in October 2022 with a funding plan to further develop "Rail to River" Segment B, including environmental clearance, design, and construction.


Issue
ISSUE

In early 2017, the Board adopted Randolph Street as the Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA) for Segment B of the Rail to Rail/River Active Transportation Corridor (Legistar File #2017-0089). The Rail to River Segment B extends approximately 4.3 miles from the Metro A (Blue) Line Slauson Station to the Los Angeles River. It was proposed to share a segment (approximately 2.3 miles) of the median/railroad right-of-way (ROW) with both the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) and the future West Santa Ana Branch (WSAB) Light Rail Transit Project (Attachment A).

Subsequent to Board adoption and after further study of the WSAB project, it was determined that the existing railroad ROW along this shared segment could not accommodate both rail lines and the Rail to River Segment B Project without extending the project footprint into the public street ROW. Therefore, a Supplemental Alternatives Analysis (SAA) was initiated to re-evaluate Randolph Street and potentially identify additional alternatives for this regionally significant active transportation corridor. The SAA Executive Summary is included as Attachment B.

Background
BACKGROUND

Rail to River Segment B is the eastern part of the longer Rail to Rail/River Active Transportation Corridor (Attachment C). The western segment, or Segment A, is...

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