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CIT" F CARLSBAD -- AGENDA' 1ILL
TITLE:
REQUEST FOR UPGRADED AMTRAK SERVICE
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
The City Council adopt Resolution No.
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ITEM EXPLANATION
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immediate improvements in the AMTRAK service to our area.
Council Member Kulchithe , theeCityeofaCarlsbadto tsupportet
Train Committee, recommends that
those efforts. A resolution in that regard is attached.
EXHIBIT
Resolution No. �--
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RESOLUTION NO. 7854
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A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
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CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA CALLING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF THE SOUTHWEST COAST CORRIDOR AND THE SOUTHWEST
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COAST CORRIDOR INTERCITY RAIL PASSENGER MANAGEMENT
AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION AND SUPPORTING THE
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IMPROVEMENT OF CERTAIN AMTRAK INTERCITY PASSENGeR
TRAIN SERVICES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACROSS THE
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SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR.
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WHEREAS, there is at present no standing commission or
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similar institution established bylaw for purposes of railroad
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intercity passenger train planning, management and operation in
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Southern California; and
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WHEREAS, it is in the public interest and necessity to
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establish, maintain, improve or increase AMTRAK intercity
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passenger train services in Southern California between San
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Diego, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara immediately; and
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WHEREAS, present AMTRAK services and market utility
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between San Diego and Los Angeles can be significantly improved
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and rendered more cost effective by linking and extending those
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services north of Los Angeles to Santa Barbara at little capital
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WHEREAS, present AMTRAK services between San Diego and
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Los Angeles can be immediately improved by:
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a. The addition of one round-trip each day, bringing
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to eight the number of such round -trips.
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b. The reduction in running time for all trains
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between San Diego and Los Angeles to a freeway competitive two
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hours and thirty minutes.
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c. The arrival in San Diego of an early morning train
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at not later than 8:30 a.m.; and
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WHEREAS, establishment of intercity -services between
Santa Barbara and San Diego can be accomplished as extensions of
the present "San Diegans"; and
WHEREAS, the public investment in intercity railroad
,)assenger improvements in Southern California has included
construction of new platforms and parking facilities between Los
Angeles and Oxnard, presently unused; the refurbishment and
expansion of stations and improvements to parking facilities in
Fullerton, San Juan Capistrano and San Diego; the construction
of a new station at Anaheim; the reconstruction of passenger
train facilities at Santa Ana and Oceanside; the reconstruction
of some tracks and signals; the completion of eight and current
construction of a ninth major grade separation project between
Fullerton and Los Angeles; the funding and engineering of a
major freight yard relocation at Oceanside with associated
significant intercity passenger train benefits; and
WHEREAS, with selected additional work at modest public
cost, future operation of two hour ten minute schedules, making
all present stops including the scheduled new stop at Irvine,
achieveable between Los Angeles and San Diego; and
WHEREAS, the public interest and necessity is served by
the development of services already existing, making better use
of the present AMTRAK infrastructure without the necessity of
establishing additional local or state offices to run passenger
trains; and
WHEREAS, at no cost to AMTRAK but directly benefiting
AMTRAK services, several planned or operational transit rail
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projects in Southern California have or will -contribute
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significantly to the use of intercity trains in Southern
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California; and
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WHEREAS, it is in the interest of the public to see
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intercity passenger train services operate with maximum
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efficiency and revenue productivity, generating all or nearly
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all operating costs from farebox revenues through better use of
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equipment, better market penetrability and expanded destination
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points all of which contribute significantly to minimizing
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costs; and
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WHEREAS, the growth of traffic on freeways continues
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and new and improved ways to better utilize the automobile are
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needed, supporting modest supplementary development of AMTRAK
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WHEREAS, such improvements as called for above have, to
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of
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the City of Carlsbad as follows:
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1. That the above recitations are true and correct.
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2. The United States Congress, the Governor and
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Legislature of the State of California, the California
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Transportation Commission, the California Public Utilities
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Commission, Regional and Local Transportation Authorities, local
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city councils, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation
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(AMTRAK), and the Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corporation are
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A. Cooperate in good faith and -formally establish
the Southwest Coast Corridor and the Southwest Coast Corridor
Intercity Rail Passenger Management and Development Commission
in the interest of the public convenience and necessity,
commencing at once planning, development and operations that
will assure functional levels of rail passenger transportation
in Southern California; and
B. Cooperate in the development and exploitation
of the present common carrier railroad infrastructure for such
intercity passenger rail transportation and with minimum
disruption to the local communities served or passed through;
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C. Cooperate to ensure that an eighth round trip
between Los Angeles and San Diego be established effective not
later than April 1985, incorporating an not -latex -than 8:30 a.m.
first arrival of train service in the City of San Diego; and
D. Cooperate to establish not -later -than April
1985, an initial three round trips daily between Santa Barbara
and San. Diego, assuring that travel across the Southwest Coast
Corridor can be accomplished efficiently; and
3. The United States Congress is hereby requested to
direct and demand that AMTRAK cooperate in good faith with state
and local authorities in the establishment and implementation of
the Southwest Coast Corridor.
4. The improvements requested for April 1985 be
considered as a minimum improvement, establishing the basis for
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such further improvements in the interest of -all public and
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3 PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the!
4 City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California on the
5 2nd • day of January , 1985 by the following vote, to
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7 AYES: Council Members Casler, Lewis, Kulchin, Chick and Pettine
$ NOES: None
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11 MARY H. ASLER, Mayor
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