Mayor, city manager say they never approved decomissioning the Antioch train platform
Antioch’s Amtrak platform has been slated for closure, with the rail service moving to Oakley, a city with less than half of the population of Antioch in a move that local officials say blindsided them.
It was a move that caught Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe by surprise. Thorpe said at one point board members agreed to postpone a decision on whether to decommission the Antioch platform, but later in that same meeting they approved the closure. Tamika Smith, director of rail service for the San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority, said there were 69 police calls from January 2021 to December 2022 at Antioch’s stop along the waterfront, where a number of homeless residents live.
“The vision for this important entry to downtown Antioch is to create an inviting and attractive plaza for people to wait and disembark from Amtrak trains,” Bernal, who has since retired, wrote in a city report. “San Joaquin Rail Authority has told us they are planning on running a commuter train from the Central Valley at 8:30 a.m. each workday with stops in Antioch.”
Thorpe called the move to decommission the stop “unfair,” and said while he knew about the Oakley platform being built, he was not aware it would replace the stop at Antioch, which has 120,000 residents, more than double Oakley’s population of 45,000. Following the meeting, Peter Myers, Burgis’ communications director, said Oakley is creating a transit center and a train station with full capabilities and plenty of parking for residents coming from other cities in the region.
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