Coastal rail service between San Diego and southern Orange County will be suspended again this weekend, the second time this month, for work including the construction of a 1,400-foot-long wall below a recurring landslide in San Clemente.<\/p>\n
Also during the suspension, the latest phase of a decades-old bluff stabilization project will proceed in Del Mar. And a separate project is underway in Carlsbad to replace a 1940\u2019s wooden trestle railroad bridge and add a second set of tracks across the Batiquitos Lagoon.<\/p>\n
Coaster, Amtrak and freight trains will not run between San Diego and southern Orange County on Saturday or Sunday. Regular service will resume at 5 a.m. Monday. Sprinter service between Oceanside and Escondido is not affected.<\/p>\n
North County Transit District, the Orange County Transportation Authority, Caltrans and other agencies together schedule maintenance and construction on or near the tracks during \u201cabsolute work windows\u201d about seven times a year. After this weekend, the next work window will be Feb. 21 and 22.<\/p>\n
A bluff failure above the railroad at San Clemente\u2019s Mariposa Point in January 2024 took out a pedestrian bridge parallel to the tracks and suspended passenger train service for weeks. Loose soil above the tracks continued to shift for more than a year afterward.<\/p>\n
The 12-to-15-foot-tall catchment wall, supported by steel beams sunk 40 feet into the ground, is intended to protect the tracks from additional landslides. More than a quarter of the 225 beams needed have been placed so far.<\/p>\n
Passenger rail service through San Clemente has been unavailable off and on for a total of more than one year since 2021, when the land beneath the tracks slipped in the Cypress Shore community just north of San Onofre State Beach.<\/p>\n
Another slide occurred in April 2023 below the Casa Romantica community center a few blocks south of the San Clemente Pier. An emergency catchment wall also was built there to protect the tracks.<\/p>\n
Along with the catchment walls, OCTA has reinforced coastal rock revetments and replenished sand on beaches to protect the seaside tracks in San Clemente.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coastal rail service between San Diego and southern Orange County will be suspended again this weekend, the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5495,67214,71170,71167,71171,74,76,75,71169,71168],"class_list":["post-141314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-amtrak","tag-coaster","tag-del-mar-bluffs","tag-rail-corridor","tag-san-clemente-landslide","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-trains-suspended","tag-work-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}