Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Samtrans

San Mateo County Still Thinks the Wider the Better

By Andrew Boone | Mar 9, 2016 | 33 Comments

San Mateo County’s City/County Association of Governments (C/CAG) is leaving an expansion of Highway 101 with new carpool lanes on the table, even after the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) concluded they will jam up with traffic the day they open. If constructed–by 2024 at the earliest–a 14-mile section of the highway from San Bruno to Redwood City would be widened from eight to […]

Riders Feel Railroaded by Caltrain Fare Hikes

By Andrew Boone | Feb 11, 2016 | 30 Comments

Public transportation becomes less accessible for low-income Peninsula residents and workers this year with fare increases for both Caltrain and SamTrans buses. Caltrain tickets go up by fifty cents on February 28 while SamTrans bus tickets were raised by 25 cents on January 10. Unlike Muni, neither agency offers discounted tickets to transfer between buses […]

SamTrans Plans For Rapid Buses on El Camino Real, Just Not Anytime Soon

By Andrew Boone | Dec 3, 2014 | 3 Comments

Last week, SamTrans released its first study of potential Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service along El Camino Real in San Mateo County, from Daly City to Palo Alto. BRT could reduce travel times for bus passengers by up to 25 percent thanks to express skip-stop service and transit signal priority. Faster bus service would attract […]

SamTrans Upgrades El Camino Real Bus Service With More Reliable Route

By Andrew Boone | Aug 22, 2013 | 34 Comments

SamTrans hopes to attract more transit riders after combining its popular 390 and 391 bus routes into a single route, called ECR, that now runs the length of San Mateo County along El Camino Real with more frequent and reliable service. The ECR runs every 15 minutes on weekdays and every 20 minutes on weekends […]

San Mateo County Supes Vote to Fund Bike/Ped Coordinator, SamTrans

By Andrew Boone | Jul 26, 2013 | 25 Comments

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to approve $10 million to boost SamTrans service and $156,000 to create a new full-time bicycle and pedestrian coordinator position over the next two years. The funds come from Measure A, a ten-year, half-cent sales tax approved by voters last November, which is expected to generate $64 […]

Improving Daly City’s “Top of the Hill” for Walking and Transit

By Andrew Boone | Jul 5, 2013 | 9 Comments

Last Saturday, Daly City officials and residents convened to celebrate a newly built transit plaza, the centerpiece of the long-awaited $3.4 million Top of the Hill project, which includes a series of pedestrian and streetscape improvements along three blocks of Mission Street between John Daly Boulevard and Parkview Avenue. The project was constructed with $2.3 million from […]

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