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2/20/2024
The California Transportation Commission has awarded $7.2 million to the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) to help restore a link in Southern California's rail network.
The state funding enables OCTA and Metrolink to construct a catchment wall at Mariposa Point in San Clemente and advance other mitigation measures to protect track from soil and debris from a privately owned slope that slid onto a passenger-rail line right of way in late January, OCTA officials said in a press release.
The parties previously obtained $2 million from the state for cleanup and pre-construction activities at the site. That money became available when the California Department of Transportation declared an official emergency, OCTA officials said in a news release.
For the project, Metrolink has signed a design-build contract with Condon-Johnson & Associates, which worked with OCTA on previous emergency rail protection efforts in San Clemente.
OCTA, Metrolink and the LOSSAN Rail Corridor Agency — which manages Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner service — plan to soon develop a timeline for safely resuming limited passenger-rail service on the line.