Transit

Budget shortfalls coupled with inflation and rising transit operating costs, threaten to cause the “transit death spiral.” We must not let that happen.

Advocates, keep your powder dry: new/old battles brewing on Geary and on Grand in Alameda

If passed without amendments, Newsom's revised budget would leave transit agencies facing a $6-8 billion deficit over the next 5 years.

East Bay bike riders who have been wanting to use the Bay Bridge path to connect all the way to the island: now there will be safer access every day of the week.

There are three things that the city could do within weeks that would make a demonstrable impact on pedestrian safety

"Open-loop" contactless fare payment systems offer tremendous benefits for riders and transit agencies alike.

Together, the key players in transit — riders, elected officials and decision-makers, staff and consultants, and advocates and media — have the power to rebuild a stronger transit system, one that is financially sustainable and positioned to carry the masses into the future. But only if we each do our part and we trust each other to do the same.

It must be a priority to give the people of the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhoods proper access to the rest of the city

It illustrates a theme throughout Bay Area transit: here's a first person account of what it was like trying to use the Larkspur ferry-train connection