Transit

Everything has changed with the pandemic. But with crisis comes opportunity

A planned top-to-bottom rebuild of San Jose's main railway station could cost anywhere from $5 billion to $10 billion dollars and, when completed, will vastly change the way people travel to and through the city

Starting Wed., only 17 of Muni's 83 rail and bus lines will be running

Just as SFMTA can easily replace light rail service with buses to respond to an emergency, the Bay Area should be able to quickly restructure service in a coordinated way to protect public safety and while ensuring essential workers can get to their jobs. Our region’s lack of an empowered lead authority for transportation means each transit agency makes decisions in silos, resulting less access for everyone — and a more challenging recovery.

The Bay Area is going to need huge, expensive improvements to its transit system. But it has a poor track record when it comes to getting them built on time and on budget. How can future mega projects avoid breaking the bank?

"All these decisions we have to make…they’re tradeoffs," Chavez laments. "There’s no better way to say it."

Muni to stop running trains on Monday, but bus service will continue

Why do we treat BART as a 'bailout,' while the Bay Bridge, freeways, CHP, etc... remain open?

Mega ballot measure put on hold over coronavirus concerns