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More than 50 Santa Ana residents turned out for a Community Open House on May 12 to learn more about early plans to improve the Santa Ana Train Station and to provide their input and ideas. It's not too late to share your ideas. Check out our short online survey.
To view the PowerPoint presentation from the community meeting, click here.
To view the detailed meeting notes, click here.
The Options – Where the Streetcar Would Go
Throughout the last year, initial alternatives for the Fixed Guideway system have been shared with the public through the environmental scoping process. They will be presented to the public for a final round of review and comment in January 2012. The feedback received during public scoping, combined with technical study, resulted in a recommendation to carry forward four options, all of which would operate between the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center (SARTC) which is also known as the Santa Ana Train Station and a new multi-modal transportation center at Harbor Blvd./Westminster Ave. in Garden Grove. The Reduced Set of Alternatives (the options below) is currently undergoing engineering and environmental analysis in order to provide critical information to elected officials about the project's costs, impacts and benefits.
The four options are:
- No Build Alternative – Developed for comparative purposes, the No Build Alternative depicts what would happen if only funded, committed and approved long-term projects go forward. Under this alternative, planned street improvements would be made and minor changes to some transit routes would be implemented. The projects in the No Build Alternative are included in each of the alternatives discussed below.
- Transportation System Management (TSM) Alternative – This is intended as a mechanism for exploring what can be achieved with low level investments.
The TSM alternative includes bus service improvements along First Street, additional operating hours and an expanded service area for OCTA's StationLink Route 462 (which operates between SARTC and Harbor Blvd. along Civic Center Dr. and Santa Ana Blvd.) It also includes improvements to intersections, traffic signals and bus stops throughout the study area.
- Streetcar 1 – A streetcar along Santa Ana Blvd. and 4th Street -- See green line on the map below.
Streetcar 1 proposes a new transit system that would operate primarily along Santa Ana Blvd. and the Pacific Electric Right-of Way (PEROW.) Between Mortimer and Ross St., it would operate westbound only on Santa Ana Blvd. and eastbound only on Fourth St. It would provide easy access to both the Civic Center and Downtown Santa Ana..
- Streetcar 2 – A streetcar along Santa Ana Boulevard, Civic Center Drive and 5th Street -- See orange line in the map below.
Streetcar 2 envisions a new transit system that would operate primarily along Santa Ana Blvd. and the Pacific Electric Right-of-Way (PEROW.) In the downtown/Civic Center area, it would operate westbound only on Civic Center Drive between Bush and Flower and eastbound only on Fifth Street between Ross and Minter. It would provide easy access to both the Civic Center and Downtown Santa Ana.
