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Caltrain Summit: Grassroots Effort To Save Commuter Rail Service
By Shirley Johnson |
There was a groundswell of support to save Caltrain at the Friends of Caltrain Summit Saturday, an event that brought a standing room only crowd to the auditorium at the SamTrans building in San Carlos. Friends of Caltrain is a grassroots effort attempting to stop Caltrain from cutting evening, midday, weekend, and Gilroy service. The […]
“Save Our Caltrain!” Summit
By Aaron Bialick |
From TransForm: Caltrain is facing a severe fiscal crisis next year. Although it is one of the highest performing Bay Area transit agencies, is the only agency that lacks dedicated funding. Caltrain is important for our quality of life, commute alternatives, and economic vitality. We need to save Caltrain. Friends of Caltrain, of which TransForm […]
Friends of Caltrain Forum: Caltrain modernization and High-Speed Rail Blended System
By Aaron Bialick |
From Friends of Caltrain: On October 21, SFMTA board chair Tom Nolan and board director Cheryl Brinkman will host a session at SPUR giving San Francisco supporters of Caltrain the chance to learn about emerging developments about Caltrain modernization and High Speed Rail.This past summer, a Caltrain study showed that it would be basically feasible […]
Caltrain to Update Its Plan to Increase Bike Capacity
By Bryan Goebel |
Johnson isn’t fond of the shorter bike racks on Caltrain. It’s been one month since the Caltrain Board of Directors approved a plan to increase bicycle capacity on its trains, a move advocates welcomed but felt didn’t go far enough because it won’t entirely prevent bicyclists from getting bumped. Tomorrow, the Caltrain board is expected […]
SamTrans Poll Shows Strong Support for Tax Measures to Support Caltrain
By Aaron Bialick |
The Green Caltrain blog has some promising news today for moving Caltrain toward a stable funding solution. Adina Levin from Friends of Caltrain reports: At its board meeting on Thursday, SamTrans announced the results of polling that it conducted in June. According to the poll, a ballot measure to support Caltrain and SamTrans would pass, barely, at the […]
Growing Movement To Save Caltrain From Potentially Devastating Cuts
By Aaron Bialick |
The mobility of Caltrain’s 40,000 daily riders on the Peninsula and the South Bay could drastically suffer under deep service cuts being considered to close a $30 million budget gap, but a movement to get the commuter rail service agency out of the red and on a path toward long-term sustainability is gaining momentum. “Everyone […]