Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Caltrain

Even in Crisis, Caltrain Board Takes Passive Role in Decision Making

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 30, 2011 | 2 Comments

Has the governing board of Caltrain helped lead riders into the current storm of budget deficits? As the Mercury News reported today, Caltrain’s Joint Powers Board (JPB) has for several years seemed to make its decisions in a passive manner, approving the last three years’ worth of agenda items without any deliberation. Despite the apparent pitfalls of […]

Caltrain Service Cuts Could Be Mitigated With New MTC Plan

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 11, 2011 | 27 Comments

Communities from San Francisco to San Jose may be saved from much of the expected crippling Caltrain service cuts. A new Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) plan being developed could make up much of the agency’s budget deficit for the next two years, said MTC Public Information Officer John Goodwin. A large chunk of the coming […]

Caltrain Riders Plead to Save Stations as Board Declares Fiscal Emergency

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 3, 2011 | 12 Comments

The Caltrain Board of Directors declared a fiscal emergency for the third year in a row today as a step toward enacting severe service cuts to help close a $30 million deficit. At the meeting, dozens of speakers representing Peninsula families, city agencies and organizations plead with the board not to close stations next month. […]

Caltrain to Hold Public Hearings on Fiscal Emergency, Service Cuts

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 4, 2011 | 38 Comments

The Caltrain Board of Directors has decided to hold a series of public hearings and community meetings before voting on a declaration of fiscal emergency and approving dramatic cuts that would slash service and potentially close up to 16 stations. “Hopefully, we will be able to come up with additional funding sources before we are […]

Caltrain Summit: Grassroots Effort To Save Commuter Rail Service

By Shirley Johnson | Jan 31, 2011 | 10 Comments

There was a groundswell of support to save Caltrain at the Friends of Caltrain Summit Saturday, an event that brought a standing room only crowd to the auditorium at the SamTrans building in San Carlos. Friends of Caltrain is a grassroots effort attempting to stop Caltrain from cutting evening, midday, weekend, and Gilroy service. The […]

Growing Movement To Save Caltrain From Potentially Devastating Cuts

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 25, 2011 | 37 Comments

The mobility of Caltrain’s 40,000 daily riders on the Peninsula and the South Bay could drastically suffer under deep service cuts being considered to close a $30 million budget gap, but a movement to get the commuter rail service agency out of the red and on a path toward long-term sustainability is gaining momentum. “Everyone […]

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