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HSR Connection to San Jose and SF at Risk
California's state rail modernization project awaits audit
January 24, 2018
New BART Train Goes into Service–but a Glitch Arises
After a ribbon cutting and celebration on Friday, it seems BART's "Fleet of the Future" has, once again, experienced a glitch
January 23, 2018
Look for New BART Train for the Evening Commute
It took a while, but BART's "Fleet of the Future" is about to become, well, the train of today.
January 19, 2018
SPUR Talk: Designing Cities to Reduce Emissions
Building dense housing around transit stations, encouraging lower emission and electric cars, designing cities to encourage walking and biking--those are all great policies. But how does one measure whether the policies are actually lowering CO2 emissions from automobiles? That was the subject of a forum today at SPUR's San Francisco location.
January 17, 2018
Let’s Cut the Bars Between Muni and BART
If you commute by BART and Muni, you've no doubt been in the frustrating situation shown in the lead image. You get off your BART train at Civic Center or one of the other downtown stations, run up the stairs, tag out of BART, run across the mezzanine, tag into Muni, run back downstairs, and miss your train by seconds. At off-peak times, this can easily add twenty minutes to your trip. And thanks to the cage bars around the stairs, sometimes you actually get to see the train you're going to miss as you rush through this Habitrail for humans.
January 12, 2018
Poll Shows Voters Support Transit Tax, but Two-thirds Threshold May Be Elusive
More than seven in ten likely voters in San Francisco said there was a “great need” or “some need” for transportation improvements, according to a new poll commissioned by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority. The survey involved just over 1,000 interviews conducted by phone and online earlier this month.
December 20, 2017
Amtrak Crash Highlights Need to Accelerate Safety Upgrades in Bay Area
Yesterday morning Amtrak Cascades #501 derailed on a curve in Dupont, Wash. Jim Hamre and Zack Willhoite, advocates with the Rail Passengers Association (RPA), were two of the three people killed in the crash. They were riding the train on its inaugural run on a new track alignment that reduces travel times on the popular service between Seattle and Portland.
December 19, 2017
Advocates Align to Fight Proposal to Split Muni/SFMTA
SPUR, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, Walk San Francisco, and the San Francisco Transit Riders have come out hard against a proposal to split Muni from the rest of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
December 11, 2017
Senator Feinstein, the 1950s Called: They want their Transportation Policy Back
Once all those additional cars cross from Oakland to San Francisco, where are they supposed to go?
December 7, 2017
Taraval to Get Boarding Islands at All Stops
Yesterday afternoon, the SFMTA Board agreed to install concrete boarding islands at all stops on the L-Taraval line as part of the L-Taraval Rapid Project. "This is a big win for pedestrian and rider safety," wrote Rachel Hyden, Executive Director of the San Francisco Transit Riders, in an email to Streetsblog.
December 6, 2017