Transit

5 Fulton bus service had improved, but neighbors complained, so let the roll back begin

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 the West?

What if the money had been spent on minor upgrades to stations throughout the East Bay, such as adding arrival signs, benches, and shelters? What if the money were spent on more buses, more drivers, and better bus fleets with comfortable seats and suspensions?

A look inside San Francisco's new Transbay bus facility

Just a quick reminder that BART will be working on the Oakland wye this weekend, so trains from San Francisco won't run beyond West Oakland station. BART will run a free bus bridge between West Oakland and 19th Street Station, where riders can transfer back to trains to reach all other East Bay destinations.

It has customers. It takes in revenue. It provides a service. Public transportation sounds like a business, doesn't it?

Riders will have a full two hours to complete their journeys

Why do the J and the K turn around at Balboa and head back downtown the way they came, rather than continuing on each other's alignments? Wouldn't the service be more useful if, even if they had to pause for a few minutes at Balboa to maintain schedules, the two lines were combined?

Roughly seventy safety advocates donned yellow t-shirts and stood on the edge of the bike lanes along Townsend Street at the King Street Station yesterday evening to demand safety upgrades.