Join the discussion: Community meeting on Caltrain quiet zone

Published on March 13, 2023

The City invites residents to a community meeting on the Caltrain Quiet Zone study on March 23, 2023. Since early 2022, the City has been conducting this study to identify how to create a quiet zone in the City of Menlo Park. Without a quiet zone, the Federal Railroad Administration requires all passenger and freight train to activate their horns at designated distances up to a quarter mile in advance to warn vehicles approaching the crossings.

The study is evaluating all of the at-grade crossings with Caltrain in the City of Menlo Park:

Ravenswood Avenue
Pedestrian crossing within the Caltrain station
Oak Grove Avenue
Glenwood Avenue
Encinal Avenue

The study is being conducted in partnership with the City of Palo Alto and includes evaluation of Palo Alto Avenue, just across the city boundary. The purpose of the community meeting is to introduce the requirements and process to establish a quiet zone and describe the potential improvements at the various crossings that would be required to establish a quite zone.

This a hybrid meeting and participants can join online or in person:

Quiet Zone Study community meeting
March 23, 2023
6–8 p.m.
Arrillaga Family Recreation Center – Oak Room
700 Alma St.