Recent Streetsblog SF posts about caltrain

Guest Editorial: Millennium Tower Latest Excuse to Delay Caltrain Connection

By Gerald Cauthen | | 4 Comments
Earlier this week, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority Commission voted to delay nearly $7 million slated towards design and construction of the Caltrain downtown connection (DTX) to the Transbay Transit Center, citing concerns, among other things, over the leaning of the 58-story Millennium Tower. The woes of the Millennium Tower are unrelated. There is no […]

It’s a Go for Caltrain Electrification

By Roger Rudick | | 114 Comments
This morning, during its regular meeting in San Carlos, the nine-member Caltrain board voted unanimously to dedicate $1.25 billion towards electrifying Caltrain. If all goes according to plan, electric services will begin in 2020. “The total program is $2 billion. That includes money for the advanced signal system, which we’re already installing today,” said Jayme Ackemann, spokeswoman […]

Northern California High-Speed Rail Scoping Meeting

By Roger Rudick | | 30 Comments
Monday evening the California High Speed Rail Authority, in conjunction with Caltrain, held a scoping meeting at the William J. Rutter Center at UCSF in Mission Bay. They answered public questions and took comment on plans to electrify Caltrain and bring high-speed trains from Bakersfield to San Francisco by 2029. Streetsblog readers will recall that […]

South Bay Cities Still Have the Asphalt Bug

By Andrew Boone | | 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 […]