SMART opens Petaluma North station for service
Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Petaluma North station at 320 Corona Road. Trains began stopping at the new station after the ceremony, and a schedule change will occur the following Monday, January...
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SoCal’s full weekend Amtrak and regional rail shutdown
This upcoming weekend (Jan 11-12, 2025), Amtrak Surfliner will shut down completely to accommodate track construction in different counties. Additionally, Metrolink will suspend service on the Ventura County, Orange County, and Inland Empire-Orange County lines, which share tracks with Amtrak...
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SoCal Transit services impacted by wildfires
Damages caused by high winds and wildfires in various parts of the Los Angeles region are impacting services. Buses into Palisades area: Metro Bus Lines 134 and 602, and Big Blue Bus Line 9 are cancelled. Big Blue Bus Line...
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City of Gardena’s GTrans to formally discontinue bus to Downtown LA
GTrans bus in Downtown Los Angeles in 2011. For many years, several non-Metro bus agencies in Los Angeles County operated buses from their respective areas to Downtown LA, particularly those without Metro Rail service. Gardena was one of them. Its...
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Review of 2024. Looking ahead to 2025
Looking back, 2024 has been a year of significant change. The "face" of both BART and Caltrain transformed as BART fully retired its two-door legacy fleet, and Caltrain introduced electric trainsets while retiring its gallery cars. In Seattle, the Link...
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Link21: Focus on the megaregion
Staff working on Link21, a project to build a second underground rail link between San Francisco and Oakland, recently recommended building a connection for standard gauge trains, rather than for broad gauge BART trains. The staff's primary rationale is that...
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10 years later – OAK Airport Connector
Ten years ago this month, BART opened the OAK Airport Connector to passenger service. This line remains one of the most unique in the BART system. Before then, BART operated only one type of trains: wide gauge rapid transit cars....
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SFMTA’s new microtransit in Bayview-Hunters Point
Source: SFMTA Recently, SFMTA introduced an on-demand microtransit shuttle service covering Bayview-Hunters Point, one of several Equity Priority Communities designated by the Bay Area's Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Although the T-Third Muni Metro, opened in 2007, serves as the area's transit...
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Farewell to the Caltrain gallery cars
Late last week, Caltrain and the Biden/Harris Administration announced that Caltrain will transfer 90 gallery cars and 19 F40 locomotives to Lima, Peru, to start a new commuter rail service to address the city's increasing traffic congestion. In late September,...
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Election 2024: Change in favor of public safety
The outcome of last week's election is disappointing on a national level. Although there seems to be a trend toward voting for conservatism, the results are mixed outside of the presidential race, including in California. On the state level, Prop...
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