Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Transit

BART parked a new car from its "Fleet of the Future" at Warm Springs Station when it opened. But the new trains haven't been available for customers to ride--until today. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

Look for New BART Train for the Evening Commute

By Roger Rudick | Jan 19, 2018 | 7 Comments

It took a while, but BART’s “Fleet of the Future” is about to become, well, the train of today. Back in March of 2016 the first new blue-and-white BART trains started making their way by flatbed truck from the factory in Plattsburgh, NY to the Bay Area to begin performance testing. The first cars arrived […]

Car traffic at Mission and Third Streets. Can we do more to reduce Vehicle Miles Traveled? Photo: Sergio Ruiz/Flickr

SPUR Talk: Designing Cities to Reduce Emissions

By Roger Rudick | Jan 17, 2018 | 2 Comments

Building dense housing around transit stations, encouraging lower emission and electric cars, designing cities to encourage walking and biking–those are all great policies. But how does one measure whether the policies are actually lowering CO2 emissions from automobiles? That was the subject of a forum today at SPUR’s San Francisco location. Under the Sustainable Communities and […]

Let’s Cut the Bars Between Muni and BART

By Roger Rudick | Jan 12, 2018 | 21 Comments

If you commute by BART and Muni, you’ve no doubt been in the frustrating situation shown in the lead image. You get off your BART train at Civic Center or one of the other downtown stations, run up the stairs, tag out of BART, run across the mezzanine, tag into Muni, run back downstairs, and […]

The Central Subway construction. Photo: SFMTA

Poll Shows Voters Support Transit Tax, but Two-thirds Threshold May Be Elusive

By Roger Rudick | Dec 20, 2017 | 5 Comments

More than seven in ten likely voters in San Francisco said there was a “great need” or “some need” for transportation improvements, according to a new poll commissioned by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority. The survey involved just over 1,000 interviews conducted by phone and online earlier this month. “The survey also gauged voter […]

An Amtrak train waiting to depart for San Jose from Oakland. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

Amtrak Crash Highlights Need to Accelerate Safety Upgrades in Bay Area

By Roger Rudick | Dec 19, 2017 | 15 Comments

Note: GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California. Unless noted in the story, GJEL Accident Attorneys is not consulted for the content or editorial direction of the sponsored content. Yesterday morning Amtrak Cascades #501 derailed on a curve in Dupont, Wash. Jim Hamre and Zack Willhoite, advocates with the Rail Passengers Association (RPA), were […]

Advocates Align to Fight Proposal to Split Muni/SFMTA

By Roger Rudick | Dec 11, 2017 | 3 Comments

SPUR, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, Walk San Francisco, and the San Francisco Transit Riders have come out hard against a proposal to split Muni from the rest of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

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