Caltrain

Hear it From a Rider — For those of us living in the Bay Area, there is often a feeling that public transit sucks and is a failure because there are so many agencies, necessitating endless transfers and high fares. Many people point to the uncleanliness of BART, the slow travel times of Muni, the poor…

The Kunz Family: Zoe (infant), Jayme, and Zac Kunz in 2004 During the course of my decade with Caltrain, I responded to more than a hundred fatalities. They were almost always suicides. …

After over 15 months of working from home, I finally found a chance to visit my ‘real’ office in the Financial District this week! Change of Commute Pattern For those who moved during the WFH period, you might need to start thinking about how your new commute would change. As…

With Biden soon to be in charge and some design changes, Gov. Newsome may have CA High-Speed Rail saying “I think I can…I think I can…” One evening, Prince Newsom settled onto a large comfy sofa with his four children Tessa, Hunter, Brooklynn, and Dutch, to read a bedtime story…

San Francisco supervisors at a special board meeting Friday approved to put a ⅛-cent sales tax on the November ballot making the board’s approval the final hurdle for the measure to appear on the ballot. Supervisors had previously passed a different version of the measure last month, which included provisions…

Caltrain is under threat. The 77-mile commuter train line running from Gilroy to San Francisco, CA faces the possibility of a shutdown due to sinking revenue and no stable funding mechanism. The COVID-19 pandemic has made train riding obsolete, as employers have transitioned to a work-from-home system leaving only essential…

Transit agencies throughout our region are taking a beating during the COVID-19 pandemic. But now more than ever, it’s crucial that we support transit. Caltrain, which is the main transit artery connecting San Francisco, the Peninsula, and South Bay, has been hit harder than most agencies. At its lowest, Caltrain…

Supervisor Walton I’m writing to express my extreme disappointment in your decision not to introduce the lifeline sales tax measure for Caltrain at the Board of Supervisors yesterday. By withholding this introduction, you have unilaterally acted to eliminate Caltrain service. Through your statements you have made clear that the reasons…

During the first 25 years of my life, I sanely commuted less than one mile between work/school/home. Then, year 26 rolled around and I decided it would be fun to move 30 miles away from work. (What an exciting challenge!) For the past ~4 years, I’ve been commuting from San…