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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

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  • 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)
Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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