SF News Someone’s Trying to Make a San Francisco-to-LA Overnight Train Happen Again There’s another attempt underway for an SF-to-LA overnighter that would compete with airline travel, this time a train service, which has made progress on getting access to the existing train tracks the trip would require.
SF News Ex-Caltrain Employees Accused of Building Secret Homes in Stations With Public Funds The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office filed charges against two former Caltrain employees for allegedly misusing public funds to construct personal residences within train stations.
SF News Finally! Clipper Card System Will Let You Just Scan Debit and Credit Cards Directly, Starting Next Year You’ll be able to just swipe your debit or credit card to ride BART, Muni, and other Bay Area transit systems, eliminating the need for a Clipper Card, in a major upgrade scheduled for summer 2024.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two People Killed In Separate, Unrelated Caltrain Collisions The local FBI office is sounding the alarm about child sexual predators in video game chat rooms, Nyum Bai chef Nite Yun is working on a cookbook, and two Caltrain collisions in an 11-hour period have left two pedestrians dead.
Arts & Entertainment BART, Caltrain Running Special Early Trains This Sunday For Bay to Breakers With Bay to Breakers starting at 8 a.m. Sunday, BART and Caltrain are both firing up special fleets of early morning trains for the occasion so “runners” from all over the Bay Area can be at the starting line in time for the race.
SF News Pedestrian Fatally Struck by Train in San Francisco; Second Caltrain-Related Fatality in Three Days Saturday morning, Caltrain's #221 train heading north collided with a person on the track of Tunnel 3 in San Francisco — becoming the second deadly Bay Area train collision in just three days and Caltrain’s tenth fatality recorded this year.
SF News Bay Area Transit Planners Fret Over ’Doomsday Scenario’ of Service Cuts Amidst Plummeting Ridership The possibility of “No weekend BART, bus lines cancelled” looms for BART, Muni, Caltrain and the ferries, according to a new report detailing these transit agencies’ plans for dealing with the “death spiral” of a looming fiscal cliff.
SF News Caltrain Mulling Plans For a Huge Housing Development On What Is Currently 20 Acres of Often Empty Tracks Caltrain and property owner Prologis may resurrect an Ed Lee-era plan to turn 20 acres of SoMa and Mission Bay railyard into a “mixed-use development” full of housing, retail, and the new electrified Caltrain tracks.
SF News Caltrain Mulls Adding Another Bayview Station, Possibly at Oakdale Avenue The minds of Caltrain, the SFCTA, and the SF Planning Commission are considering adding another San Francisco Caltrain station in Bayview, and Planning says an Oakdale Avenue location should have the inside track.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Caltrain Running Bus Bridge Around San Bruno Following Crash There's some continued disruption on Caltrain after Thursday's crash in San Bruno, a van parked outside the Old Mint in SF caught fire Thursday afternoon, and today is the day you can stop showing proof of vaccination at bars and restaurants.
SF News Muni and Caltrain Free Again on New Year’s Eve, BART Hours Extended (But Still Full Price) Both Muni and Caltrain will offer free service on New Year's Eve, and while BART will not be free, they’re running an extra 1 a.m. train.
SF News Hugely Inconvenient BART-Caltrain Transfer at Millbrae Just Became Less Inconvenient The lumbering up a set of stairs and across the concourse and down another set of stairs to transfer between BART and Caltrain is no longer necessary, thanks to a new modification.
SF News Zillionth Version of High-Speed Rail Plan Introduced, Funding Totally Uncertain For just $714 million, riders will be able to get from SF to San Jose in a mere 45 minutes under the umpteenth iteration of the high-speed rail plan.
SF News What Color Caltrain Seat Would You Like? We've got a long way to go before Caltrain's first electric train cars hit the tracks — until 2021, at least. But like that person on a house flipping show who starts picking out
SF News Muni Fare To Increase Again July 1, Caltrain Considering Fare Hike Too Seems like just yesterday when Muni instituted its new 25-cent fare hike for riders who pay cash for a single-trip transfer (in fact, it was less than six months ago!). But the beginning
SF News Working Group Ponders Fate Of 22nd Street Caltrain Station The future of the Dogpatch/Potrero HIll Caltrain stop at 22nd Street is not assured, and according to Socketsite's speculation, "the odds of the existing Caltrain Station at 22nd Street surviving appear to
SF News With High-Speed Rail On Hold, Transbay Transit Center Daunted By Operating Budget The future of the over-budget and oversize $2.5 billion Transbay Transit Center is a fearful topic for the Chronicle's Matier and Ross, with the twinning mustache journalists writing that a major operating
SF News It's Come To This: Caltrain Launches Online Petition In Effort To Save Electrification Plan Please sign the White House petition urging the President to save Electrification & 9,600 jobs. #StandWithCaltrain https://t.co/QthSSNZQoT pic.twitter.com/Zpg72Co4q1— Caltrain (@Caltrain) February 20, 2017 Online petitions! They're
SF News Free Muni, Late BART, And Free Towing All On The Table This New Year's Eve People celebrating New Year's Eve in San Francisco have even fewer excuses than usual to drive drunk Saturday, as bountiful options are available to shuttle partiers safely back home. According to the San
SF News Rail Extension From Caltrain To New Transit Center Likely Won't Open Until 2026 (If Then) The Downtown Rail Extension or DTX is the final, very expensive piece in the construction puzzle that will make the new Transbay Transit Center more than just really fancy bus station. But as
SF News Caltrain's Twitter Account Is Sassy As Hell @mlroach @isaach We were doing sassy Twitter before it was a thing.— Caltrain (@Caltrain) March 19, 2016 It being 2016, every #brand has come to the conclusion it needs to have a personality.
SF News Atherton Wealthy Will Still Maybe Try To Block High-Speed Rail NIMBYs throughout the state of California have been crying foul for years about the gigantic and decades-long high-speed rail project that will, someday, connect Los Angeles and San Francisco and ultimately San Diego
SF News Private Shuttle Chariot's Latest Route Whisks NEMA Royalty To Caltrain For Free NEMA apartments, a luxury development that describes itself as a "design-driven lifestyle pioneer," has been accused of representing a kind of modern-day castle. If so, it's found an appropriate match with a semi-private
SF News Major Proposal To Remove I-280 Overpass And Caltrain Rail Yard Moves Forward A proposed (extremely expensive) plan, first floated last May, to remove the existing Caltrain rail yard as well as parts of the I-280 overpass and off-ramp in SoMa/Potrero in anticipation of electrified
SF News Soon You Will Pay Even More To Ride Caltrain Caltrain riders will be shelling out more to use the transit agency next year, after their Board of Directors approved a significant increase for tickets and parking fees. In a press release sent