The board of directors of the Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority, the transportation agency in charge of the Los Angeles to Pasadena Light Rail Gold Line, approved the advanced conceptual engineering (ACE) draft documents for the Foothill Gold Line light rail project from Glendora to Montclair. The documents for the 12.3-mile extension feature six stations for the rail line. Engineering for the project began in the fall of 2014 and took approximately 35,000 man hours to complete.
The ACE documents contain more than 700 pages of engineering drawings detailing all elements of the light rail project. The document includes designs for the 6 future stations and parking facilities, 24 grade separated bridge structures, 24 at-grade crossings, walls and fences, street improvements, the safety and communications systems and more. With the entire 12.3-mile corridor shared with freight, the drawings also detail the freight track relocation to make room for the two new light rail tracks.
The documents are now being distributed to the corridor cities and key agencies for a 60-day review period.
Construction of the new extension is estimated to cost $1.2 billion, with the majority of the funding anticipated to come from Measure M, a half-cent sales tax measure being placed on the November 2016 ballot by Los Angeles County Metro. If approved by voters in November, the Foothill Gold Line will be one of the first projects in the measure to break ground.