Project Description and Benefits

The Project

• Project Description & Benefits
• Project Accomplishments
• Most Frequently Asked Questions
• Organization
• Detailed Project Map
• Safety and Mobility Improvements - Jump Start Program
• Phasing & Schedule
• Project Budget
• Funding Commitments
• Financial Information

Project Goals

Summary

The ACE Construction Authority is a single purpose construction authority created by the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments in 1998 to mitigate the impacts of significant increases in rail traffic over 70 miles of mainline railroad in the San Gabriel Valley. Train traffic through the Valley will increase by as much as 160 percent by the year 2020.

The ACE Project consists of multiple construction projects including near-term, low cost mobility improvements that encompass safety upgrades and grade separations. ACE has completed Jump Start safety improvements at 39 crossings. Of the 20 planned grade separation projects, construction is complete for the first seven projects and underway or funded for the next four projects. The remaining ten grade separations are partially funded by 2006 State Transportation Bonds ($336 million) and Los Angeles County Metro Measure R funds ($400 million).

The project is designed to improve mobility and safety by:

Constructing safety improvements at 39 crossings;
Constructing grade separations at 20 rail crossings, resulting in 22 grade crossing eliminations; and,
Reducing the amount of time Valley residents spend waiting at rail crossings.

Project Benefits

Improves safety at 39 rail crossings as well as at 20 grade separations in the San Gabriel Valley.
Stops 221 annual tons of air pollutants from being emitted in the worst air basin in the nation.
Reduces a projected 300% increase in auto/truck traffic delay at crossings resulting from up to 160%
    increase in rail traffic and 40% increase in vehicular traffic.
Connects the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to the transcontinental rail network creating a faster,
    more efficient method for distributing an estimated $314 billion worth of trade by the year 2020.
Maintains the economic vitality of the San Gabriel Valley by protecting 634,000 existing jobs and the
   192,000 new jobs in the San Gabriel Valley projected by 2020.
Contributes to continued growth in the national, state and local economy by facilitating expanded trade.

The ACE Project enjoys unanimous, bipartisan support from local, state and federal officials. For more information about the ACE project, please visit our website at: www.theaceproject.org or contact us at:
(888) ACE-1426.