Transportation Watch
If you had to get the Oakland Airport, and fast, would you rather ride a train or take a bus? What if the train cost twice as much as the bus? Then again, what if the bus took longer? Those are some of the questions addressed in a new study evaluating the relative costs and benefits of several...
Friday transpo roundup
Can your car drive on Flex Fuel? Head on down to Oakland’s new biofuel station on Grand Avenue. If you prefer electric cars, you might have to wait a little longer, but expect to see charging stations popping up around the Bay over the next few years. Either choice might make...
Here at KALW News, we’ve been enjoying the sudden summer weather by taking our laptops outside. But the heat hasn’t been so kind to everyone. Yesterday, both BART and Caltrain experienced heat-related equipment malfunctions that led to long delays: computer failures on BART forced conductors to...
When we talk about getting people out of their cars and onto public transportation, we’re usually talking about ways to make them do it: incentives to make transit more attractive, taxes and tolls to make driving less so. Both of these strategies stem from the assumption that driving is what people...
Lots of subway art this week. Art in Tokyo … (modified) art on Muni … even art on BART!
Then, some food for thought: Should the government require seatbelts on buses? Would you move to a totally car-free community? How would you get around if future cities looked more like the suburbs? Can you...
It was nearly a year ago that local transportation advocates filed a complaint against BART, alleging that the agency had not complied with federal civil rights legislation when making plans for the Oakland Airport Connector. The Federal Transit Administration agreed, and BART lost $70 million in...
If you’re in Oakland, try the new “B Shuttle” to get around downtown—it’s free!
Across the Bay, make sure you pay your MUNI fare: SFMTA fare enforcers are out in, uh, force as of this week and issuing citations to evaders... (Info straight from MUNI)
The convenience of driving meets the perks of...
One thing many Oaklanders would have something to say about is crossing the Bay Bridge. You probably remember back last month when a little financial matter flared a media firestorm.
As of July 1, the toll during commute hours rose from $4.00 to $6.00. For carpoolers, it rose to $2.50 from, well,...
We reported a few weeks back that after implementing severe service cuts in March, AC Transit was gearing up for another round this month. Now the agency says it’s holding off on implementing the new cuts. Don’t get too excited though: agency spokesman Clarence Johnson told me that many of the cuts...
As I mentioned in last night’s post, the California High-Speed Rail Authority didn’t actually decide anything of significance at yesterday’s meeting. They just voted to continue to study the options for building the tracks down the Peninsula. But the options are controversial, and I want to spend...
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