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It’s Super Bowl Sunday and a California team, the San Francisco 49ers, is playing for the championship. The 49ers are in the process of moving from their longtime home at Candlestick Park in San Francisco to Santa Clara, where a new stadium is under construction at a site that is somewhat transit-friendly. The stadium will [...]
I saw Matt Yglesias’s post on Los Angeles’s transit expansion get passed around a lot online yesterday. It seems as if everybody’s writing their “omg LA is building huge amounts of transit!” post, and that’s great, it helps sustain momentum for more rail and shifts the view of LA away from being car-dependent. Maybe that [...]
Yesterday we looked at rising ridership on Caltrain. Today, it’s BART that is posting record ridership gains, this time in the month of August. BART set weekday ridership records in August, with an average of 384,295 trips per weekday. It also saw four all-time peak-ridership days in recent weeks. BART has been working to add [...]
California High Speed Rail Authority Board chairman Dan Richard knows all too well about the airline industry. Serving as a Director on the Bay Area Rapid Transit District’s Board from 1996 to 2004, the East Bay resident and his colleagues clashed with United Airlines over the use of airport landing fees to build BART’s station [...]
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