Between 2016 and 2021, 22 fatalities and 17 injuries occurred along Alameda County rail corridors. The Alameda County Rail Safety Enhancement Program (RSEP) was developed as an outgrowth of the recommendations included in the Alameda County Goods Movement Plan and in response to the dangerous conditions many rail crossings pose throughout the county. Development of the RSEP is split into three phases—RSEP-A, RSEP-B and RSEP-C—to achieve the project goals and construct improvements in a three to five-year timeframe. A prioritization framework for the at-grade crossings was approved by the Alameda County Transportation Commission in 2018 as part of the Rail Strategy Study that narrowed the 133 at-grade crossing locations in Alameda County to 56 locations. The two Livermore at-grade crossings included in the RSEP are located at Junction Avenue and L Street. These two crossings are part of the RSEP-A phase.

The goals of the RSEP are to Provide safe at-grade crossings for all users, particularly near schools, Priority Development Areas and Equity Priority Communities, reduce the unnecessary fatalities or severe injuries at the at-grade crossings, increase freight service reliability along rail corridors, reduce greenhouse gasses by encouraging goods movement by freight and encouraging mode shift for active transportation by removing barriers to active transportation facilities at the at-grade crossings.