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Advocates Gear Up to Make Caltrain Awesome
Advocates with the San Francisco Transit Riders, Friends of Caltrain, Seamless Bay Area, and other pro-transit groups are starting the big push to get the required two-thirds of voters in San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties to support a 1/8 cent sales tax on the November ballot to raise over $100 million annually for Caltrain.
September 10, 2020
Bad Splices Point to Fundamental Problems at Muni
Last week's Muni meltdown forces managers to admit they don't do in-house quality control, didn't do full operations testing, and don't check with other transit agencies on how to fix common problems
September 3, 2020
Metro CEO Phil Washington Announces “Fareless System Initiative”
Internal Metro Task Force looking to implement fare-free transit pilot in early 2021
August 28, 2020
Proposed Metro Budget Would Mean a 20 Percent Bus Service Cut
Transit advocates are raising concerns about significant cuts to bus service embedded in Metro's proposed budget.
August 27, 2020
High-Speed Rail Work Continues–as Does the L.A. Times’ Catastrophization
Plus a call for the paper's many unnamed "sources" to get in touch with Streetsblog
August 27, 2020
Muni Meltdown Blamed on Faulty Parts
Overhead wire splices fail once put under full load, knocking out Muni rail.
August 26, 2020
High Speed Rail: Accommodating Freight and Passengers on the L.A.-to-Anaheim Route
Thirty-day comment period open on building new freight facilities to accommodate HSR construction. Also, Burbank-to-LA EIR comment period ending soon
August 25, 2020
Muni Rail Returns – For a Brief Moment
After breakdowns, SFMTA gave up and cancelled rail service again Monday evening
August 25, 2020
Metro Committee Approves $200M Cost Overrun for Purple Line Subway Extension
Tunneling under the La Brea tar pits area is slow and expensive. The overrun of $200M - a seven percent increase - takes the project budget from $2.8 billion to $3.0 billion.
August 24, 2020
Metro Looks to Shift High Desert Freeway Funds to High-Speed Rail
The way L.A. is approaching the High Desert Corridor represents an important turning point: from prioritizing environmentally destructive car-centric transportation to environmentally-friendly rail transportation
August 19, 2020
