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Page 1 of2 Bill Mock From: Mathieu, Ron [MATHIEUR@scrra.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 3:45 PM To: Darrell Johnson; Dinah Minteer Cc: Bill Mock; Wylie, Steve; Maxey, Darreil; Quirk, David Subject: RE: Proposed Contractors' Warehouse at 1044 E Fourth Street in Santa Ana, CA Dear Darrell and Dinah: SCRRA has completed its review of the attached files and request from the developer to lease a portion of the OCTA R/W at Fourth Street in Santa Ana to facilitate truck turns. I also met on site with Bill Mock, Dinah Minteer and planners from the City of Santa Ana. After careful consideration we would strongely urge you NOT IQ. I..EASE this portion of the rail R/W for the foilowing reasons: I. We do not want to encourange trucks to use a driveway within close proximity of the crossing due to the fact that the area within their property Is not large enough to maneuver (even with the turning radius).j The prospective tenant should work with the city to reroute their truck ingress and egress from Santa Fe Avenue into their property to an existing loading dock on the south side of Building A. This would greatly enchance the safety at the rail crossing by moving the trucks away from it. 2. We do not want trucks to turn In to the driveway If at ail possible as they will cause traffic queuing from tight maneuvers in and out of the driveway. This would create a severe safety concern for vehicles that may get caught on the tracks when the trains go by. See the attached photos taken at the field meeting on Thursday October 5, 2006. 3. The concept of the OCTA Board approved Grade Crossing Study and the SCRRA Sealed Corridor Concept are constructed under the premise of increasing the safety at the rail crossings and this includes looking at adjacent land uses and driveways. Improving safety means also looking at the factors that take away from the safety such as traffic queuing. We have had a couple of incidents already in LA County where trucks maneuvering in and out of driveways got hit by a train because of the queuing on the tracks. See the attached photos of the unfortunate accident at Lassen Street with an Amtrak train and a tractor trailer. The other incident occured at the Broadway/Brazil crossing in Glendale where another tractor trailer got hit by the train as they tried to back into a narrow space. 4. Moving the fence of the adjacent property into the OCTA R/W would interfere with an existing vault In the ground and also a signal equipment houSe. It also would decrease the line of sight for motorists seeing the approaching trains from the south and also for the engineers on the trains seeing the intersection. 5. Raised median islands were recommended to be instailed on both approaches to the 4th Street crossing and these medians would not ailow for truck moves in or out of that driveway. If you have any other questions give me a cail. Sincerely, <1Wn :Matnieu Manager Public Projects SCRRNMetrolink (213) 452.0249 (213) 452.0423 fax Page 15 of43 3/22/2007 31A-82