Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Caltrain

“Shovel Ready” High Speed Rail? CA Is Ahead of the Game

By Damien Newton | Jun 4, 2009 | 5 Comments

Photo: Sacramento Bee Yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden, met with governors from eight different states that are competing for High Speed Rail funding. Streetsblog’s D.C. Correspondent wrote a story about the national implications of the meeting available at our New York site. While neither Schwarzenegger nor another representative from California was present, there was good […]

Caltrain Drops Bicycle Surcharge Idea and Is Bringing Back Tags

By Bryan Goebel | May 21, 2009 | 3 Comments

Caltrain destination tags. Photo by Shirley Johnson. Caltrain has dropped an idea to make bicyclists pay a $1 surcharge to help solve its budget deficit. In an email this afternoon, Mark Simon, the special assistant to the Caltrain CEO, wrote "a bicycle surcharge will not be part of the budget proposals for the coming fiscal […]

Caltrain Staff Floats Idea to Charge Bicyclists Extra to Ride Trains

By Bryan Goebel | May 7, 2009 | 47 Comments

Flickr photo: richardmasoner It’s bad enough Caltrain already has an image of being unfriendly to bicyclists, despite its efforts to prevent bumps on the system by boosting bicycle capacity on its trains, now comes this word: Staff is toying with the idea of making bicyclists pay a $1 surcharge that would raise an estimated $800,000. […]

Mayor Newsom, Caltrans Announce Plans to Remove Portions of I-280

By Matthew Roth | Apr 1, 2009 | 9 Comments

A controlled explosion from the filming of the TV series "Trauma," on a closed portion of I-280 Mayor Gavin Newsom yesterday announced one of his most ambitious plans for re-shaping San Francisco, telling reporters at a press conference with Caltrans Director Will Kemption and Caltrain Director Michael Scanlan that the city would move forward with […]

Caltrain to Update Its Plan to Increase Bike Capacity

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 4, 2009 | 7 Comments

Johnson isn’t fond of the shorter bike racks on Caltrain. It’s been one month since the Caltrain Board of Directors approved a plan to increase bicycle capacity on its trains, a move advocates welcomed but felt didn’t go far enough because it won’t entirely prevent bicyclists from getting bumped. Tomorrow, the Caltrain board is expected […]

Using Software to Find Walkable Neighborhoods and Live Car Free

By Matthew Roth | Feb 27, 2009 | 4 Comments

The Bay Area’s public transportation circulatory system. Click for larger view Though David Brooks might argue in his New York Times column that Americans want to live in small towns and suburban dreamscapes, the fact is more and more of us live in metropolitan areas, and discussions about what we want should have to do […]

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