Cities may receive funds to upgrade rail crossings
An Orange County Transportation Authority committee Thursday approved a new program to provide more than $30 million in additional funds for use by cities to upgrade their rail crossings.
The plan, approved by the agency’s transit committee, still needs to be voted on by the full OCTA board, which is expected to consider it Monday.
If adopted, OCTA programming manager Darrell Johnson said, the program could provide Measure M money to help cities improve lighting, raise medians, synchronize traffic signals at crossings and establish quiet zones.
The program comes in the wake of last year’s OCTA decision to spend $434 million to nearly double Metrolink service by 2009.
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