SF News Muni Still Isn't Sure How To Pay For Those Fancy New Trains They Keep Talking About We've been talking about Muni's glorious new light rail fleet for a while — in fact, it was over two years ago that we ran the numbers on the (at the time) $1.2
SF News California's High-Speed Rail Finally Breaks Ground, In Fresno, Tomorrow The much dreamt-of, argued-over, fretted-over, celebrated and maligned high-speed rail system from San Francisco to Los Angeles, which will not be completed until many of us are middle aged or entering retirement, is
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 Cool New BART Cars To Feature Bike Racks, Chartreuse BART's new railcars (teased in mid 2013) will, ideally, make your commute from splendid downtown San Francisco to unfathomable Pleasanton less harrowing. New bikes racks and differently-colored seating are just a few features
SF News Teen Struck By Muni Train In Bayview, Train Does Not Stop A 17-year-old girl was struck and injured by a Muni light-rail train on Sunday afternoon, as Bay City News reports. The operator of the train apparently did not see that s/he had
SF News Sacramento Judge Puts High-Speed Rail On The Slow Track Yesterday in California's flood-prone capital city, a superior court judge twice slammed the brakes on plans for the state's high-speed rail between San Francisco and Los Angeles. While the two rulings handed down
SF News Fire Beneath Train Causes Big BART Headaches In Orinda A fire that appeared to have started on the tracks underneath a Pittsburg-bound BART train at Orinda station Wednesday evening caused some delays into the morning commute this a.m. because of a
SF News Major BART Delays After Man Climbs Train At MacArthur [PHOTO] A man who climbed the roof of a BART train has caused a huge mess this morning for traffic in the East Bay. At around 5:30 a.m., the unidentified man was
SF News Teacher Tragically Killed While Photographing Train A Sacramento teacher was tragically struck and killed by a Union Pacific train on Saturday afternoon. Kathy Carlisle, 52, a wife and mother of three, was a popular teacher at St. Francis High
SF News High Speed Rail: 'World Is Full Of NIMBYS And Fearful Men,' Says Gov. Brown After signing an $8 billion funding measure on Wednesday that will start construction on "the country's fastest rail system," Governor Jerry Brown climbed atop platform at the burgeoning Transbay Terminal in downtown San
SF News Mom Dies After Daughter Drives Car Onto Train Tracks During a harrowing incident in San Leandro on Tuesday night, a woman driving with her mother became stuck on the train tracks after mistakenly assuming the tracks were a street. With an oncoming
SF News New High-Speed Rail Cost Comes In $30 Billion Cheaper You'll recall there was some hubbubb this past winter after the California High-Speed Rail Authority released a revised cost projection that put the project at $100 billion, more than double an original estimate
SF News East Bay BART Train Kills Man A little before 7 p.m. on Monday, a man died after walking on the BART tracks at the MacArthur station. A Richmond-bound train plowed into the unidentified man, killing him instantly. According
SF News Check Out The Sleek New BART Cars Sharp new designs, working air-condition, and clean seats are on the order for a slew of new test BART cars (an estimated 250 of them) that will go into production this May. The
Arts & Entertainment 'Playland At The Beach' Railway Now At Conservatory Of Flowers Well, this is downright adorable. The Conservatory of Flowers at Golden Gate Park recently unveiled an all new garden railway display, one "celebrating the legendary Playland at the Beach and a bygone era
SF News Federal High-Speed Rail Funds Dry Up, But California Project Far From Dead When the decidedly anti-rail Congress eliminated future funding for high-speed rail late last week, California's bullet train looked to be running out of track real fast. Although House Republicans were eagerly taking credit
SF News CA High-Speed Rail Cost Doubles, But Is Still Doable, According to New Plan The headlines today and yesterday are all blaring the fact that, according to new estimates, the cost of the San Francisco-to-Anaheim high-speed rail line will now be closer to $100 billion, up from
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 Oakland Amtrak Crash Injures at Least 16 At around 10 p.m. on Wednesday, an Amtrak train traveling 15 to 20 mph collided with another train unloading passengers in Jack London Square at Webster Street and Embarcadero. At least 18
SF News Dreams of a High-Speed Rail to L.A. Being Slowly Smothered By Litigious Towns, Farmers As we've discussed, there are some well-off folks on the Peninsula who would like to see the California high-speed rail project die or at the very least get re-routed over a new bridge
SF News Floridians, Too Lazy for High Speed Rail, Donate Their Funds to California While California looks for additional funding to cover the $43 billion price tag on our high-speed rail project, Florida Governor Rock Scott recently turned down $2.4 billion in federal dollars for a
SF News Caltrain's $30 Million Shortfall Could Lead to Service Cuts, Including Weekend SF Giants Games The crucial 77-mile line that hauls an estimated 40,000 passengers during the weekdays could be in danger. Scratch that, it is in danger. A $30 million shortfall will ebb away at almost
SF News Would Anyone Use a SF-LA High-Speed Rail Line? Is It Practical? Everyone touts Europe and Japan as being so awesome for their high-speed rail lines, and America as being backwards for having only one (the Acela line between Boston and D.C., and even
