Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Rail

Streetcars in Seattle, Or Why America Should Mind Its Transit Gaps

By Alex Marshall | Jun 10, 2009 | 4 Comments

Photo: Don Maxwell/Flickr The rider went down — Boom! — just as she turned to see if the streetcar was getting close to her. Turning to look was her undoing, because her wheel got caught in the big gap between rail and street, toppling her hard. The big blue streetcar was only ten feet or […]

“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 […]

BART Transit Blogger Roundtable, Part II

By Matthew Roth | Jun 4, 2009 | No Comments

Flickr Photo: pbo31 Last week regional transit bloggers sat down with BART management and asked questions of General Manager Dorothy Dugger about her transit operation. This is part two of that roundtable: Impact of economy on operating budget The biggest challenge that I’m focused on right now is certainly the effects of the economic reality […]

BART Invites Transit Bloggers to Query GM Dugger, Part I

By Matthew Roth | Jun 3, 2009 | 12 Comments

Greg Dewar of N-Judah Chronicles, BART GM Dorothy Dugger, BART Spokesperson Linton Johnson. Photo: Matthew Roth Last week, BART hosted a brunch meeting for Bay Area transit bloggers, explicitly acknowledging that journalism is trending away from traditional media to online and niche outlets. Organized by BART spokesperson Linton Johnson, writers from Streetsblog, The SF Appeal, […]

Bye-Bye General Motors, Hello (Again) General Locomotives?

By Matthew Roth | Jun 1, 2009 | 4 Comments

The V-8 P.J. O’Rourke put a bullet in this morning after writing his Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal. This morning much of the nation’s news outlets are devoted to the demise of General Motors, which represents the fourth largest bankruptcy in U.S. history and the largest of any industrial titan. Perhaps most entertaining of […]

Why Buy More Trains if You Can’t Afford to Run Them?

By Elana Schor | May 27, 2009 | 3 Comments

Down in balmy South Florida, D-Day is approaching for riders of the the popular Tri-Rail transit system. A looming $18 million shortfall has forced the Tri-Rail board to approve a budget that slices daily service and stops all trains by 2011 — although ridership has doubled since 2005. Tri-Rail trains like these could stop running […]

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