To boost BART, make rides free and raise taxes to cover costs
BART is running out of federal assistance and threatens drastic service cuts if we don’t make up a $350 million annual deficit. The pandemic-devastated ridership is still not at half …
BART is running out of federal assistance and threatens drastic service cuts if we don’t make up a $350 million annual deficit. The pandemic-devastated ridership is still not at half …
BERKELEY — Berkeley and BART officials agreed to exchange the city’s air rights of one property for a piece of land owned by the transportation agency, moving forward plans to …
San Jose state Sen. Dave Cortese has introduced a bill to prevent state agencies selling decommissioned diesel trains for reuse after Caltrain authorized the sale of part of its diesel-powered …
About $73 million of Bay Area bridge toll money that voters approved in 2018 for public transit and freeway improvement projects has instead been diverted to pay for maintaining the …
Since Caltrain has switched to electric all-electric trains, their retired diesel fleet will be sent to Lima, Peru, to serve passenger rail service there, according to a Caltrain press release. …
In the first month of its electric train service, Caltrain saw over 753,000 passengers — a 54% increase from October 2023 and its best ridership numbers since the coronavirus pandemic, …
Along with BART and Caltrain, AC Transit is facing a fiscal cliff next year after exhausting federal COVID-19 assistance. While the bus system’s preferred option is a new area-wide transit …
SAN MATEO COUNTY — Two months after the union representing SamTrans bus operators voted to reject a new contract proposal, negotiators from the transit agency and the union have set …
SAN JOSE — A major regional transit agency is in negotiations to buy a downtown San Jose office tower for its future headquarters in a deal that could provide a …
County officials have wrapped up construction on a temporary road on the site of a landslide in the Santa Cruz Mountains, which for eight months blocked hundreds of residents’ access …