Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Amtrak

The push is on to build another Bay Bridge. Photo: Melanie Curry/Streetsblog

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More Sophistry in Favor of a Second Bay Bridge for Cars

By Roger Rudick | Feb 12, 2018 | 27 Comments

Chronicle Op-Ed massages stats and makes false equivalencies to support another highway bridge between SF and Oakland

An Amtrak train waiting to depart for San Jose from Oakland. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

Amtrak Crash Highlights Need to Accelerate Safety Upgrades in Bay Area

By Roger Rudick | Dec 19, 2017 | 15 Comments

Note: GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California. Unless noted in the story, GJEL Accident Attorneys is not consulted for the content or editorial direction of the sponsored content. 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 […]

France's TGV, similar to what will eventually run in California, runs under wire and uses carbon-free electricity. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

SPUR Gets Preview of State Rail Plan

By Roger Rudick | Sep 27, 2017 | 25 Comments

Take Caltrain from San Francisco to San Jose, and it costs $9.75. But come back on the other side of the Bay, to Oakland’s Jack London Square Amtrak station, and it will cost you between $17 and $37 on Amtrak. The tickets are completely different, purchased from different agencies, from different machines. This is just […]