The identified solution “minimizes impacts to properties in the project vicinity, provides opportunities to improve gateway aesthetics and main. No final decision was made at the mee ting b ut, of six options prese nted, officials believe the raised tracks and sunken road is likely the preferred alternative, according to an email from City Manager Lisa Goldman. The alignment, similar to other grade separation projects in Belmont and San Carlos, is expected to be the least disruptive and most manageable to construct, according to a presentation given to the City Council dur ing a meeting T ue sday, Jan. Engineering consultants hired to address the problematic train and car crossing suggested raising the rail tracks through the area to a peak height of roughly 13 feet, and drop- ping Broadway by roughly the same distance to give clearance for traffic traveling east and west to pass more freely. To clear congestion at one of the most clogged intersections along the Peninsula, Burlingame officials identi- fied a preferred rail and road grade sep- aration alignment at the Broadway intersection.
