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
SF News Why We May Never Have Wi-Fi On Muni Or BART You'll recall how last year BART canceled that contract they had with a wi-fi service provider after five spotty years of service that drew thousands of complaints. Well, commuters and the Chronicle's Michael
SF News Person Hit And Killed By Caltrain At Atherton Station A person was struck and killed by a Caltrain train at the Atherton Station on Sunday afternoon. A Caltrain spokesperson told SFGate the incident occurred at 12:53 p.m. with a southbound
SF News Engineer Of Derailed Amtrak Train Previously Worked At Caltrain, Lived In Bay Area The New York-bound Amtrak train that crashed as it left Philadelphia may have been traveling well over its 50 mile per hour speed limit on that stretch of track, perhaps going more than
SF News Mayor Wants To Reroute Caltrain Past Warriors Arena, Tear Down 280 Overpass The big news being broken by mustache twins Matier & Ross today is a potential plan, unveiled in a closed-door meeting last week at City Hall, to drastically rethink the routing of Caltrain
SF News In Tragic Coincidence, Caltrain Sent To Fetch Passengers Delayed By Menlo Park Collision Involved In Second Fatality Two people are dead after separate collisions with Caltrain Monday, and in a strange twist, the train sent to pick up passengers stranded by the first collision was the one that struck and
SF News NYE Ride Guide: Battle Royale For Rideshares, Taxis, And Mass Transit As the proverbial ball begins to drop on this New Year's Eve, there's plenty to eat, do, and drink, as we've underscored in this guide to the best fetes in town. While getting
SF News Badly Burned Body Discovered Near Caltrain Tracks In SF Workers discovered the body of an "unidentified male victim" that was "burned beyond all recognition" Thursday morning while cleaning up after a fire near the Caltrain tracks in Visitacion Valley. According to KTVU,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe May Have To Move As Developer Aims To Build High-Rise There The popular four-year-old SoMa restaurant Marlowe, which sits across the street from the CalTrain station, is in danger of having to move or close as an LA-based developer has bought the building with
Arts & Entertainment Map: San Francisco, Arranged By Transit Time Today in maps: Peter Dunn of Stone Brown Design has created this time-scaled map of Muni, BART and Caltrain, all arranged by how long it would take you to get to commute to
SF News Dispatching System Snafu Prompts Systemwide Caltrain Delays Your Caltrain commute just got a little tougher this morning. A technological error with the system's dispatching system has caused all sorts of delays and headaches today. "At around 8:30 a.m.
SF News Watch Video Showing Man Almost Getting Hit By Caltrain This video, released by Caltrain to promote public safety, reminds us that it's never a good idea to go around train track safety barriers/beat the train. SFGate reports: The video, from the
SF News NYT Columnist Visits S.F., Is Horrified By Our Public Transit Now that San Francisco is officially the most elite city in America, shouldn't we have a public transportation system that works? Or does our dysfunctional transit system point to an elitism at work
SF News Caltrain Busts Gas Line In San Bruno A little after 9 p.m. Sunday night, a Caltrain crew broke a gas line while working on a $155 million project in San Bruno (yes, San Bruno). Service temporarily halted in both
SF News Videos: Drunk Guy Physically Thrown Off Caltrain And here we are: here's some young man being yelled to "get the fuck off the train" during a Caltrain trip gone bad. Other than too much hooch, we're not quite sure what
SF News Bevan Dufty's New Public Transit Gig After an unsuccessful run at the Mayor's office, former District 8 supervisor and Willie Brown staffer Bevan Dufty has a new post with the San Mateo County Transit District. Dufty will be the
SF News Two Caltrain Deaths, One Amtrak Fatality Recorded Saturday Two people died in separate incidents on Caltrain tracks on Saturday. The incidents occurred within an hour of each other near the California Ave Caltrain Station in Palo Alto and just North of
SF News Cranky Cyclist Causes Caltrain Delay Bicyclists. They ruin everything. Like, for example, your morning commute. As the SF Examiner dutifully points out, a heated round of words between a bicyclist and a Caltrain conductor delayed service by a
SF News SFPD Bicycle Crackdown Excludes Oracle-Sponsored Pedicabs As part of their recent crackdown on bad bike behavior, SFPD once again butt heads with bike commuters, this time at Fourth and King Street. The savvy cyclists at Streetsblog reported cops around
