This wraps up the first week of operations for the new Salesforce Transit Center, phase 1. Reviews are in, and most people seem to love the rooftop park and the grand design of the facility. But what about phase 2, the train station below it–and the thing that makes it the future Grand Central Station of […]
Last week I took the train from Oakland to Bakersfield. In Bakersfield, I transferred to a bus to get to Los Angeles. Believe it or not, at eight hours, that’s the fastest Amtrak route between the two cities. While the state has spent the past sixty or seventy years building freeways, its intercity trains have […]