Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Transit

Crowds swarmed the train at San Rafael on its first opening day run. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

SMART Train Official Launch

By Roger Rudick | Aug 25, 2017 | 8 Comments

Some 20 people crowded onto the San Rafael train station platform this morning, waiting for the 11:29 SMART train heading north towards Santa Rosa. But they were in for a disappointment–the first train wasn’t actually going to leave until 2:29 p.m. The platform was a chorus of groans and grumbles as word got around that […]

The Marin County Line. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Marin Columnist says ‘No Density Needed Here’

By Roger Rudick | Aug 23, 2017 | 25 Comments

The Marin Independent Journal’s Dick Spotswood made it clear in his column today that he doesn’t support Senate Bill 35 by Senator Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, because it could bring denser housing to Marin’s towns and cities. From his column: S.B. 35 uses an entirely different geographical term to define communities subject to fast-track, by-right […]

Over 100 people came to comment on the Geary BRT approval. But it took a decade to get to that point. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

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SPUR Talk: The Politics of Transportation Planning

By Roger Rudick | Aug 22, 2017 | No Comments

To be a successful transportation planner, you've also got to be a persuasive salesman, said two consultants at a recent SPUR event.

My New Jersey Transit train from Oakland to Bakersfield. Photo: Rudick/Streetsblog

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California’s Antique Trains

By Roger Rudick | Aug 21, 2017 | 79 Comments

Last week I took the train from Oakland to Bakersfield. In Bakersfield, I transferred to a bus to get to Los Angeles. Believe it or not, at eight hours, that’s the fastest Amtrak route between the two cities. While the state has spent the past sixty or seventy years building freeways, its intercity trains have […]

The damaged rail bridge that is part of the 20-mile Dumbarton Corridor.

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Dumbarton Study Outreach Begins Tonight

By Roger Rudick | Aug 15, 2017 | 1 Comment

The San Mateo Transit District (SamTrans) released its report today on improving transportation links across the Dumbarton bridge and right of way. The agency will be soliciting public comment on the document–which runs 267 pages–over the next couple of months. The study proposes phased implementations of improved bus services and, somewhere down the line, rebuilding […]

The 'hybrid option" could include one row of these angled bike racks that allow cyclists to remove and load bikes without leaning bikes on top of one another. All photos Streetsblog/Rudick unless otherwise indicated

Pick a Bike Rack for Caltrain’s Electric Trains

By Roger Rudick | Aug 9, 2017 | 32 Comments

Caltrain is displaying three different bike racks today until 7 p.m and tomorrow from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 4th and King. They’re asking riders to check them out and vote on what kind of bike rack storage they want on the railroad’s new electric trains, coming some time in 2019. The options are to either […]

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