Monday’s Headlines
Caltrain's electric trains to start limited weekend service soon; San Diego gets "tap-to-pay"; SF drivers demand "respect"; More
8:50 AM PDT on July 22, 2024
- Bay Area transportation news bits, including: Caltrain to start running limited electric trains service soon (East Bay Times)
- New home sought for historical Corona train depot (Daily Bulletin)
- San Diego transit riders can now use their credit card, phone to pay fare (Times of San Diego, San Diego Union Tribune)
- New anti-fare-evasion toll gates going up in downtown SF station (Local News Matters)
- Bay Area MTC receives grant to study seamless paratransit service (Mass Transit)
- Maybe toll lanes will cut traffic on the 605? (LA Times)
- San Francisco drivers demand “respect” and all the road space (SF Standard)
- What areas in eastern California got sustainable transportation grants (KOLOTV)
- City Nerd studies transportation policies in Project 2025
- The morality of car dependency, filtered through “The Good Place” (Planetizen)
- The big zoning battle of Berkeley: allowing denser housing (Darrell Owens, KQED)
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