Recent Streetsblog SF posts about BART

Car-Hail Assists BART Passengers

By Roger Rudick | Mar 21, 2016 | 2 Comments

BART’s woes continued this week, with no train service this morning at the end of the Pittsburgh Bay Point line. That meant bus bridges between Pittsburg Bay Point and North Concord. But some good news came down in the early afternoon from BART’s communications department: BART will run a train every 15 minutes during commute […]

Nobody Should be Surprised by BART Breakdowns

By Roger Rudick | Mar 18, 2016 | 51 Comments

For years now, civil engineers have given America’s aged infrastructure a “D” grade and warned that if we don’t do something soon, it’s simply going to fall apart. Guess what? Train service between North Concord and Bay Point stations was completely shut down at the end of this week, with more misery expected. According to […]

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New BART Cars on the Way

By Roger Rudick | Mar 15, 2016 | 28 Comments

As regular riders are aware, BART trains are quite old. Some have been running for more than 40 years, and date back to when the BART system first started operations in 1973. And although additional cars were purchased in the 1980s and 90s, the average age of a BART train is 30 years. Of course, […]

South Bay Cities Still Have the Asphalt Bug

By Andrew Boone | Feb 25, 2016 | 24 Comments

“Induced demand” is the idea that building and widening roads doesn’t make traffic better–it makes it worse. Late last year Caltrans finally acknowledged that, yeah, it’s probably true that all the work they’ve been doing for the past few decades has been for naught. Not everyone got the memo. The Valley Transportation Authority (VTA)’s proposed […]

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Is BART Ready for the Big One?

By Roger Rudick | Feb 9, 2016 | 1 Comment

Last week, the White House and members of Congress renewed a commitment to completing “ShakeAlert,” a prototype early warning system developed at UC Berkeley that alerts users via cell phones and other means of an earthquake in progress. Although it can’t predict earthquakes, it sends a signal a few seconds before the most violent shaking […]

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Bigger Intersections and More Traffic Planned for Millbrae BART/Caltrain Station

By Andrew Boone | Feb 3, 2016 | 11 Comments

As the City of Millbrae inches closer to final approval of plans for new construction at the Millbrae BART/Caltrain Station, officials have quietly proposed adding new traffic lanes and traffic signals to intersections near the station. The traffic expansions aim to cram even more auto traffic through the area, worsening already hazardous conditions for people […]

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