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7.A. - Page 8 of 41 amenities including improved crossings, plazas, courtyards, and other publicly accessible spaces. The RWCmoves plan identified a 73% increase in Caltrain ridership since 2006. The Redwood City Transit Center has an average of 4,200 Caltrain and 2,200 bus passengers on weekdays and has the fifth -highest ridership in the Caltrain system. Improvements to the Transit Center were frequently supported by the community and ranked highly on the priority list of transportation improvements. Identifying, and then building, improved facilities for people walking, biking, scooting etc. to a new transit center could advance multiple City priorities: • Vision Zero— research has shown that increasing the number of people walking and biking reduces collision rates for those groups, • Sustainability — shifting people to less energy intensive commutes (from driving to riding Caltrain, from driving to the station to riding a bike, etc.) will help reach Climate Action Plan goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Transportation -related emissions are the top source of greenhouse gas emissions in Redwood City. Future Rail Improvements: Through its Business Plan, Caltrain identified Redwood City for the location of a mid -Peninsula transit hub with an increased number of trains (up to 12 trains per hour per direction from the 6 once electrification is complete). Significant changes are needed to facilitate this level of service: • Additional tracks and train platforms to allow transfers between local and express trains, • Longer platforms to accommodate longer train sets and to increase the number of passengers each train can carry, and • Better access to and from the station to get more riders there. At the same time, the City is studying how best to accomplish grade separations — which crossings to separate, how to separate them, and when to separate them. Because 4 -track, at -grade crossings are not allowed, adding railroad tracks downtown is directly tied to the grade separation work. To accommodate more tracks, additional land would be needed from the Sequoia Station shopping center, greatly impacting the existing CVS and Safeway buildings. An estimation of required land is shown in Figure 6. Caltrain and SamTrans are conducting technical studies to determine the land need with more certainty, and these studies should be completed in late fall. Page 8 of 12 City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.ore 202