More work is planned for the San Clemente-San Diego rail connection.

Transportation officials announced this week they plan to add more sand and rock along San Clemente Beach, where mudslides have halted passenger train service to San Diego for months in recent years. The Orange County Transportation Authority on Monday filed an emergency coastal development permit with the California Coastal Commission to expedite work on four projects, including repairs at Mariposa Point, where a slow-moving mudslide triggered …