Help us maintain the integrity and quality of life in our Palo Alto neighborhoods!

Dear Palo Alto Resident,

As you may know, the Caltrain Electrification Project is heating up, forcing Palo Alto City Council into action on designing solutions for the city’s four rail crossings: Charleston, Meadow, Churchill, and Palo Alto Avenue.

Electrification will essentially double the number of trains on the tracks, and so upgrades to the crossings are vitally important. Because multiple approaches for how to address each crossing are being considered, it is paramount that citizens take an active part in ensuring that end results represent optimized solutions aligned with shared values and needs.

Petition: https://tinyurl.com/ybmkqtpu

Sign Petition: https://goo.gl/forms/Y1BJFi6lZj4yGWxx1

Do you want to protect your neighborhood and/or your neighbor’s property from eminent domain? And the small businesses that align the rail corridor?
Do you want to make it safer for our children to walk and bike around town?
Do you want to retain the ambiance of your Palo Alto neighborhood?
Would you like to participate in designing solutions that will unclog our roads?
Would you like to get out and meet your neighbors?
Do you want to have your and your neighborhood’s voice be heard?

If so, then here is your chance: Make a difference by signing this petition and talking to your neighbors about it and getting their signatures! Be a block leader and represent your block at City Council and other meetings. Let your voice be heard.

This petition, which will be presented to City Council, broadly

1) States our values, priorities, and preferences for the upgrades

2) Requests comprehensive information on prospective valued solutions

3) Seeks community stakeholder representation and involvement throughout the City’s decision-making process.

If you would like to join the Palo Alto Citizens contact list for developments and updates, please join google group :

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/paloaltocitizens

The final solution for Palo Alto’s rail crossings will fundamentally alter our City for generations and will heavily impact present residents for several years during construction. If we work together to ensure that final solutions preserve homes and property, quality of life, and environmental and aesthetic values, while increasing safety for all who use these corridors, we will have achieved our objectives.

Thank you!

Today's XCAP meeting cancelled

Keith Reckdahl