Updated based on feedback from the first phase of public engagement.
- Improve Safety
- Reduce potential for severe or fatal collisions
- Minimize conflicts – trains, cars, bikes, and pedestrians
- Improve Mobility
- Improve intersection operation
- Improve system operation
- Enhance signal operations
- Minimize additional right-of-way needs
- Minimize overall cost
- Minimize noise, flooding, etc. other problems
- Landscape, walls, and structure aesthetics
- Connect the campus and surrounding community
- Shorten construction timeline
- Do construction as fast as possible
- Reduce construction traffic effects
- Avoid long-term full-road closures during construction
