REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Sites for possible Redwood City stations on a new Dumbarton commuter rail corridor will be selected in early 2020, the San Mateo Daily Journal reports.
Efforts to revive the long-dormant former Southern Pacific route across San Francisco Bay, from Union City in the East Bay to Redwood City on the San Francisco peninsula, have been in progress since social media giant Facebook became involved in 2018 [see “Facebook could help revive former San Francisco Bay rail bridge,” Trains News Wire, June 15, 2018]. The line would pass within a few hundred feet of Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park.
Four potential Redwood City-area stations are under consideration, the newspaper reports: one near the Fair Oaks Health Center; near Marsh Road, where two possible sites are being reviewed; one at Redwood Junction, where the new line would join the existing Caltrain route; and one at Willow Road in Menlo Park. An East Palo Alto site near University Avenue is also being considered, based on requests from that community.
Winsome Bowen, head of regional transportation strategy at Facebook, told a neighborhood meeting in North Fair Oaks that specific station locations would be announced at community meetings early next year.
