Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Samtrans

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 […]

Maker Faire: A Model for Encouraging Car-Free Transportation to Big Events

By Andrew Boone | May 24, 2013 | 6 Comments

The runaway success of Maker Faire, the annual San Mateo festival that celebrates do-it-yourself technology and crafts, has led organizers to get creative in encouraging attendees to come without a car and avert a traffic mess. Since Maker Faire’s debuted in 2006, organizers have developed a model program for managing traffic demand for the growing number of attendees […]

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SamTrans Poll Shows Strong Support for Tax Measures to Support Caltrain

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 12, 2012 | 8 Comments

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 […]

Caltrain Riders Try to Prevent Dramatic Service Cuts as New Blog Launches

By Michael Rhodes | Apr 7, 2010 | 30 Comments

Deep cuts could leave Caltrain closing its gates much earlier every day. Flickr photo: prawnpie At Streetsblog, we’ve covered a lot of transit cuts over the past year, from Muni to AC Transit to SamTrans. But none of those agencies has seen cuts quite as devastating as what appears to be on the way at […]

Bay Area Transit Chiefs Assume Leadership Roles at APTA

By Matthew Roth | Oct 5, 2009 | No Comments

MTA CEO Nat Ford. Photo: foggydave The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) announced its newly elected executive committee today at its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, and Bay Area transit bosses will be taking prominent roles that could influence the nation’s transit priorities. San Mateo County Transit District (SamTrans) General Manager and CEO Michael J. […]

SamTrans to Raise Fares and Cut Nearly All Express Routes

By Michael Rhodes | Sep 9, 2009 | 4 Comments

Four of these six routes will be discontinued or have reduced service. Flickr photo: 4nitsirk The SamTrans Board of Directors voted today to cut nearly all express routes to San Francisco, reduce service on several local lines, and raise adult one-way fares by 25 cents in an effort to narrow a $28.4 million budget deficit. […]

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