HIGH SPEED RAIL COMES TO CALIFORNIA

Please make plans to attend our upcoming breakfast reception with Bruce Armistead,Regional Manager for the $4.7 billion Los Angeles-to-Anaheim segment of the California High Speed Rail Project. The event will be on Thursday, December 10 (8am) at PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF.

This will be an excellent opportunity for us to hear about the capital construction program of the California High Speed Rail Authority.

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The 2009 AIA/LA "BUILDING LA'S FUTURE" Breakfast Series PRESENTED BY - Parsons Brinckerhoff

HIGH SPEED RAIL COMES TO CALIFORNIA BRUCE ARMISTEAD Regional Manager for the $4.7 billion Los Angeles-to-Anaheim segment of the California High Speed Rail Project December 10, 2009 (8am) Parsons Brinckerhoff 444 South Flower, 37th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90071 (213) 362-9470 www.pbworld.com

NO-HOST PARKING. AIA/LA recommends riding METRO. We urge public transportation, of course, and are on multiple bus lines. We are two blocks west of the Pershing Square Station, three blocks north of the Metro Center Station. Parking is least expensive at the nearby World Trade Center or Pershing Square and very handy (and affordable) across the street at the Central Library.

Program: 8am - breakfast, introductions 8:15am - 8:45am - Bruce Armistead will speak about matters of interest he'd like feedback on from the architecture & design community 8:45am - 9:15am - Questions & Answers from the audience 9:15am - wrap-up/ conclusion 9:30am - end

HIGH SPEED RAIL COMES TO CALIFORNIA

Bruce Armistead Regional Manager for the $4.7-billion Los Angeles-to-Anaheim segment of the California High Speed Rail Project

After years of talk, California's ambitious high-speed rail program is now moving towards reality, with new bridges, tunnels, and right-of-way widening along the existing rail tracks - and stations -- between Sacramento and Anaheim. On October 2, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other dignitaries announced the filing of formal requests for federal high-speed train funding to match the $9.95 billion in bond funds pledged by California voters in 2008. The result could be a system in operation by 2020.

Business opportunities for the Los Angeles architectural community lie with the project, both directly and in the area of transit-oriented development (TOD). The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) project at one end of the project, now being developed by the City of Anaheim (and being designed by Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) and its subconsultant HOK) will be joined by stations at Norwalk/Fullerton, Los Angeles Union Station, Burbank, and one of three: Palmdale, or Sylmar, or Santa Clarita. The line then will continue north to San Francisco and Sacramento.

In Los Angeles, the High Speed Rail train will stop at the 80-year-old Union Station, an historic community icon, movie set, and tourist destination, as well as current rail hub for the Metro Gold and Red Lines, numerous Metro bus lines, DASH, Metrolink, and Amtrak. Conceptual planning calls for six new tracks on bridges high above the Hollywood (101) Freeway. Union Station would have new passenger platforms built 30 feet above the existing tracks, at a cost of nearly $600 million, and a pedestrian concourse built above that.

The alternative of building a deep subterranean station below the new Red Line subway station was rejected as impractical when its cost estimate came in at $2.3 billion. The "high aerial" train platforms at Union Station mean that the tracks heading north will be elevated north to the Pasadena (110) Freeway and will tower over historic landmark bridges over the Los Angeles River. The tracks will also remain high for some distance to the south. All this points to the opportunity for an iconic structure at Union Station and a real opportunity for shaping the future look of the city.

Bruce Armistead will explain the project, the prospects, and the players. Armistead is a senior engineering manager with PB specializing in railroad track design analysis, maintenance elements of railway signal and control systems, industrial lead paint removal, and abatement training. He is also experienced with Primavera Project Planner Advanced Scheduling and report writing. Bruce is skilled in the preparation of cooperative agreements between public agencies and railroads, which he does nationally for the Transportation Research Board. He has authored and co-authored papers published at American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA) conferences, including the agency's chapter on commuter and intercity rail.

Bruce currently oversees the preliminary design development, outreach activities, railroad coordination, local agency interface, and the project-specific environmental impact report/environmental impact statement (EIR/EIS). He is also responsible for the negotiation of scope of service budgets with the design team, technical and feasibility review of the alignment and station alternatives, identification of right-of-way impacts, and environmental oversight.

Previously, Mr. Armistead was project manager for the $500-million service expansion of Metrolink in Orange, California, a project that included infrastructure improvements to allow railroad service from Fullerton to Laguna Niguel at 30-minute intervals. The project also includes new parking structured at four stations. Bruce oversaw the design and construction of track and signal improvements along the Orange County Transportation Authority's (OCTA's) Orange subdivision. He also served as project manager for the $1.4-billion Alameda Corridor-East Project, Irwindale; the $448-million Secaucus Transfer Program in New Jersey; and numerous earlier projects for New Jersey Transit Corporation, Newark, NJ, both as an engineer and as a construction manager. Mr. Armistead, a New Jersey native, and a Civil Engineering graduate of New Jersey Institute of Technology, is Vice Chairman of the AREMA, where he chairs the Committee on Commuter and Intercity Rail, serves on the Strategic Highway Research Program, and is a member of the Expert Task Group on Railroad-DOT Mitigation.

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The 2009 AIA/LA "BUILDING LA'S FUTURE" Breakfast Series Presented by Parsons Brinckerhoff

07.24.09 - Gerry Miller - Chief Legislative Analyst, City of Los Angeles - NBBJ 08.07.09 - Jim B. Clarke - Director of Federal Relations, Office of the Mayor, City of Los Angeles - Gruen Associates 09.18.09 - Gary Lee Moore, P.E. - City Engineer, City of Los Angeles - ARUP 10.01.09 - Larry Eisenberg - Executive Director, Facilities Planning & Development - LACCD - Altoon + Porter Architects LLP 10.30.09 - Brian League - Director of Entitlements, Capital Construction Development - USC - CO Architects 11.06.09 - Steven A. Olsen - Vice Chancellor - Finance, Budget and Capital Programs - UCLA - RCH Studios 11.13.09 - Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas - County of Los Angeles - Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP 12.04.09 - Guy Mehula - Chief Facilities Executive - LAUSD - Gensler 12.10.09 - Bruce Armistead - Regional Manager, California High Speed Rail Authority - Parsons Brinckerhoff 01.14.10 - Geraldine Knatz, PhD - Executive Director - The Port of Los Angeles - Harley Ellis Devereaux Architects

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Sponsored by: Parsons Brinckerhoff NBBJ Gruen Associates ARUP Altoon + Porter Architects LLP Harley Ellis Devereaux CO Architects Rios Clementi Hale Studios Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP

Price per breakfast/Entire Series: $15/$135 - AIA/LA member $30/$270 - Non AIA/LA member

The 2009 AIA/LA "BUILDING LA'S FUTURE" Breakfast Series will serve as an excellent opportunity for key leaders in the A/E/C industry to engage directly with decision-makers that presently have ongoing capital improvement programs that are helping to shape the City in which we live.

For additional information, please contact: Will Wright Director, Government & Public Affairs AIA Los Angeles will@aialosangeles.org (213) 639-0777

Last Updated: October 28, 2009