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Huh. Build transit that doesn’t suck and people will ride it. Imagine that

#Caltrain #california #transit

My growing retired-transit-card collection

A year ago, this week’s work trip to the Bay Area would have meant breaking out the oldest computer that I was still using with any regularity at the time: the Clipper card that I bought in June of 2012 to pay for fares on BART, Muni and other transit agencies around San Francisco.

But this year, I could leave that NFC-enabled smart card in the little holder in which I store my other stored-value transit cards and instead tap my phone to pay with my business credit card for each ride–first a SamTrans bus from SFO to Millbrae, then Caltrain to San Jose for TechEx North America, then two days of commuting up and down the peninsula for Google I/O.

BART started accepting contactless payments last August, and now all the Bay Area transit services that accept Clipper cards also let you tap to pay with a phone, a smartwatch or a credit or debit card with an NFC chip.

Whether you call it “tap to pay,” “open payments” or “open loop,” letting people pay for a fare as if it were any other on-the-go purchase is a great advance for transit. Especially for out-of-towners, as I realized years ago when visiting Chicago and Portland and appreciating the early lead of their transit services in this key bit of CX.

A growing array of agencies across the U.S. have finally wised up to this after years of requiring people to buy proprietary stored-value cards, install agency-specific apps or make a throwback cash payment: Metro, NYC’s MTA, the T in Boston, NJ Transit buses and light rail, SEPTA around Philadelphia, MARTA in Atlanta, and the Seattle region’s Sound Transit, among many others.

L.A.’s Metro has been a high-profile laggard–a personally inconvenient one since my TAP card expired last year. But this week users have begun reporting success on Reddit and in Bluesky posts with using their phones and credit cards to cover train and bus fares now that Metro there seems to have begun a soft launch of what it calls “TAP Plus.”

As I’ve spent down the balance on transit cards I no longer need, the ones that I still need to use are now most entirely confined to agencies in other countries. Some examples: I love Barcelona’s Metro but I don’t love how it doesn’t support tap to pay; Doha’s driverless metro is a technological marvel but also requires its own colorful card; Vancouver’s Compass Card offers enough of a discount over tap-to-pay rates (because that city didn’t follow Toronto’s fare-neutral example) that I picked up one for last year’s Web Summit conference there and used it again for this year’s event.

But there is one awkward exception right in my neighborhood: Arlington Transit, which continues to require the SmarTrip card that WMATA rolled out in 1999. So while I can pay for Metro like it’s the 21st century, I still have to keep my well-worn SmarTrip card handy in case an ART bus rolls up before a Metro bus does.

My growing retired-transit-card collection

A year ago, this week’s work trip to the Bay Area would have meant breaking out the oldest computer that I was still using with any regularity at the time: the Clipper card that I bought in June of 2012 to pay for fares on BART, Muni and other transit agencies around San Francisco.

But this year, I could leave that NFC-enabled smart card in the little holder in which I store my other stored-value transit cards and instead tap my phone to pay with my business credit card for each ride–first a SamTrans bus from SFO to Millbrae, then Caltrain to San Jose for TechEx North America, then two days of commuting up and down the peninsula for Google I/O.

BART started accepting contactless payments last August, and now all the Bay Area transit services that accept Clipper cards also let you tap to pay with a phone, a smartwatch or a credit or debit card with an NFC chip.

Whether you call it “tap to pay,” “open payments” or “open loop,” letting people pay for a fare as if it were any other on-the-go purchase is a great advance for transit. Especially for out-of-towners, as I realized years ago when visiting Chicago and Portland and appreciating the early lead of their transit services in this key bit of CX.

A growing array of agencies across the U.S. have finally wised up to this after years of requiring people to buy proprietary stored-value cards, install agency-specific apps or make a throwback cash payment: Metro, NYC’s MTA, the T in Boston, NJ Transit buses and light rail, SEPTA around Philadelphia, MARTA in Atlanta, and the Seattle region’s Sound Transit, among many others.

L.A.’s Metro has been a high-profile laggard–a personally inconvenient one since my TAP card expired last year. But this week users have begun reporting success on Reddit and in Bluesky posts with using their phones and credit cards to cover train and bus fares now that Metro there seems to have begun a soft launch of what it calls “TAP Plus.”

As I’ve spent down the balance on transit cards I no longer need, the ones that I still need to use are now most entirely confined to agencies in other countries. Some examples: I love Barcelona’s Metro but I don’t love how it doesn’t support tap to pay; Doha’s driverless metro is a technological marvel but also requires its own colorful card; Vancouver’s Compass Card offers enough of a discount over tap-to-pay rates (because that city didn’t follow Toronto’s fare-neutral example) that I picked up one for last year’s Web Summit conference there and used it again for this year’s event.

But there is one awkward exception right in my neighborhood: Arlington Transit, which continues to require the SmarTrip card that WMATA rolled out in 1999. So while I can pay for Metro like it’s the 21st century, I still have to keep my well-worn SmarTrip card handy in case an ART bus rolls up before a Metro bus does.

My growing retired-transit-card collection

A year ago, this week’s work trip to the Bay Area would have meant breaking out the oldest computer that I was still using with any regularity at the time: the Clipper card that I bought in June of 2012 to pay for fares on BART, Muni and other transit agencies around San Francisco.

But this year, I could leave that NFC-enabled smart card in the little holder in which I store my other stored-value transit cards and instead tap my phone to pay with my business credit card for each ride–first a SamTrans bus from SFO to Millbrae, then Caltrain to San Jose for TechEx North America, then two days of commuting up and down the peninsula for Google I/O.

BART started accepting contactless payments last August, and now all the Bay Area transit services that accept Clipper cards also let you tap to pay with a phone, a smartwatch or a credit or debit card with an NFC chip.

Whether you call it “tap to pay,” “open payments” or “open loop,” letting people pay for a fare as if it were any other on-the-go purchase is a great advance for transit. Especially for out-of-towners, as I realized years ago when visiting Chicago and Portland and appreciating the early lead of their transit services in this key bit of CX.

A growing array of agencies across the U.S. have finally wised up to this after years of requiring people to buy proprietary stored-value cards, install agency-specific apps or make a throwback cash payment: Metro, NYC’s MTA, the T in Boston, NJ Transit buses and light rail, SEPTA around Philadelphia, MARTA in Atlanta, and the Seattle region’s Sound Transit, among many others.

L.A.’s Metro has been a high-profile laggard–a personally inconvenient one since my TAP card expired last year. But this week users have begun reporting success on Reddit and in Bluesky posts with using their phones and credit cards to cover train and bus fares now that Metro there seems to have begun a soft launch of what it calls “TAP Plus.”

As I’ve spent down the balance on transit cards I no longer need, the ones that I still need to use are now most entirely confined to agencies in other countries. Some examples: I love Barcelona’s Metro but I don’t love how it doesn’t support tap to pay; Doha’s driverless metro is a technological marvel but also requires its own colorful card; Vancouver’s Compass Card offers enough of a discount over tap-to-pay rates (because that city didn’t follow Toronto’s fare-neutral example) that I picked up one for last year’s Web Summit conference there and used it again for this year’s event.

But there is one awkward exception right in my neighborhood: Arlington Transit, which continues to require the SmarTrip card that WMATA rolled out in 1999. So while I can pay for Metro like it’s the 21st century, I still have to keep my well-worn SmarTrip card handy in case an ART bus rolls up before a Metro bus does.

My growing retired-transit-card collection

A year ago, this week’s work trip to the Bay Area would have meant breaking out the oldest computer that I was still using with any regularity at the time: the Clipper card that I bought in June of 2012 to pay for fares on BART, Muni and other transit agencies around San Francisco.

But this year, I could leave that NFC-enabled smart card in the little holder in which I store my other stored-value transit cards and instead tap my phone to pay with my business credit card for each ride–first a SamTrans bus from SFO to Millbrae, then Caltrain to San Jose for TechEx North America, then two days of commuting up and down the peninsula for Google I/O.

BART started accepting contactless payments last August, and now all the Bay Area transit services that accept Clipper cards also let you tap to pay with a phone, a smartwatch or a credit or debit card with an NFC chip.

Whether you call it “tap to pay,” “open payments” or “open loop,” letting people pay for a fare as if it were any other on-the-go purchase is a great advance for transit. Especially for out-of-towners, as I realized years ago when visiting Chicago and Portland and appreciating the early lead of their transit services in this key bit of CX.

A growing array of agencies across the U.S. have finally wised up to this after years of requiring people to buy proprietary stored-value cards, install agency-specific apps or make a throwback cash payment: Metro, NYC’s MTA, the T in Boston, NJ Transit buses and light rail, SEPTA around Philadelphia, MARTA in Atlanta, and the Seattle region’s Sound Transit, among many others.

L.A.’s Metro has been a high-profile laggard–a personally inconvenient one since my TAP card expired last year. But this week users have begun reporting success on Reddit and in Bluesky posts with using their phones and credit cards to cover train and bus fares now that Metro there seems to have begun a soft launch of what it calls “TAP Plus.”

As I’ve spent down the balance on transit cards I no longer need, the ones that I still need to use are now most entirely confined to agencies in other countries. Some examples: I love Barcelona’s Metro but I don’t love how it doesn’t support tap to pay; Doha’s driverless metro is a technological marvel but also requires its own colorful card; Vancouver’s Compass Card offers enough of a discount over tap-to-pay rates (because that city didn’t follow Toronto’s fare-neutral example) that I picked up one for last year’s Web Summit conference there and used it again for this year’s event.

But there is one awkward exception right in my neighborhood: Arlington Transit, which continues to require the SmarTrip card that WMATA rolled out in 1999. So while I can pay for Metro like it’s the 21st century, I still have to keep my well-worn SmarTrip card handy in case an ART bus rolls up before a Metro bus does.

Announcement display aboard #Caltrain this morning. Embarrassing, but not nearly as much as having the whole OS crash.

Announcement display aboard #Caltrain this morning. Embarrassing, but not nearly as much as having the whole OS crash.

Announcement display aboard #Caltrain this morning. Embarrassing, but not nearly as much as having the whole OS crash.

Announcement display aboard #Caltrain this morning. Embarrassing, but not nearly as much as having the whole OS crash.

Commuting on the train to Sunnyvale and it unexpectedly hit the brakes and came to a stop, and someone muttered really loud "Suboptimal!" and I guess my point is that #siliconvalley is just weird. #sfba #commute #caltrain

Commuting on the train to Sunnyvale and it unexpectedly hit the brakes and came to a stop, and someone muttered really loud "Suboptimal!" and I guess my point is that #siliconvalley is just weird. #sfba #commute #caltrain

Commuting on the train to Sunnyvale and it unexpectedly hit the brakes and came to a stop, and someone muttered really loud "Suboptimal!" and I guess my point is that #siliconvalley is just weird. #sfba #commute #caltrain

Commuting on the train to Sunnyvale and it unexpectedly hit the brakes and came to a stop, and someone muttered really loud "Suboptimal!" and I guess my point is that #siliconvalley is just weird. #sfba #commute #caltrain

Commuting on the train to Sunnyvale and it unexpectedly hit the brakes and came to a stop, and someone muttered really loud "Suboptimal!" and I guess my point is that #siliconvalley is just weird. #sfba #commute #caltrain

#BART supporters need 186K signatures by June. Will Hunky Jesus and $7 gas get them there?
https://missionlocal.org/2026/03/bart-supporters-need-186000-signatures-by-june-will-hunky-jesus-and-7-a-gallon-gasoline-get-them-there/
#Transportation #Transit #California #BayArea #SanFrancisco #Caltrain

For the San Francisco Bay Area, a question:

Do you want functional transit
OR
gridlock?

Sign the petitions to put the transit funding measures on the ballot
& Vote for them

Or spend an extra hour or 2 in traffic.

Your choice.
#transit #BART #CalTrain #bus

For the San Francisco Bay Area, a question:

Do you want functional transit
OR
gridlock?

Sign the petitions to put the transit funding measures on the ballot
& Vote for them

Or spend an extra hour or 2 in traffic.

Your choice.
#transit #BART #CalTrain #bus

For the San Francisco Bay Area, a question:

Do you want functional transit
OR
gridlock?

Sign the petitions to put the transit funding measures on the ballot
& Vote for them

Or spend an extra hour or 2 in traffic.

Your choice.
#transit #BART #CalTrain #bus

For the San Francisco Bay Area, a question:

Do you want functional transit
OR
gridlock?

Sign the petitions to put the transit funding measures on the ballot
& Vote for them

Or spend an extra hour or 2 in traffic.

Your choice.
#transit #BART #CalTrain #bus

For the San Francisco Bay Area, a question:

Do you want functional transit
OR
gridlock?

Sign the petitions to put the transit funding measures on the ballot
& Vote for them

Or spend an extra hour or 2 in traffic.

Your choice.
#transit #BART #CalTrain #bus

Kaliforniens Caltrain ist gefühlt gerade erst mit hohen Mitteln elektrifiziert worden. Die Fahrgäste sind extrem zufrieden mit dem Projekt. Doch nun drohen Kürzungen. Kein Verkehr am Wochenende und am Abend plus drastische Taktverschlechterungen stehen zur Debatte. Ich hab' mir das mal genauer angeschaut.

#caltrain #spnv #bahn #siliconvalley #sanfrancisco

https://www.notebookcheck.com/Caltrain-Silicon-Valleys-nagelneue-elektrische-Eisenbahn-von-drastischen-Kuerzungen-bedroht.1158698.0.html

Boost:

MTC, Boards of BART; CalTrain, SFMTA and other transit agencies; Bay Area state legislators -- all need to support gap funding for public transit!

There's a petition here:
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/support-gap-funding-for-public-transportation?source=direct_link&

Sign, boost, and support!

#SFBA
#BayArea
#BART
#CalTrain
#SFMTA
#MTC
#ACTransit

@MLNow
A couple of years back I had the pleasure of riding commuter rail in the UK and Europe. In the bicycle spaces, they had charge points. And guess what? Wheelchair users could access the charge points as well.

And, while a 30 minute commute ride doesn't get you a full charge, it might be enough to get you home...

#BART, #CalTrain, #SMART, #SFBayFerry, #WestCAT, #GoldenGateTransit - you guys all have long trips. How about stepping up with in-transit charging?

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan 25, 2025

https://bit.ly/stc012525

#OSC #flexible #BTP-Si4 #PNTB6-Cl #ductile #Caltrain #Regenerative #OCS #Renewable #AI #physics #engagement #motivation #tutors #Galilee #Coins #synagogue #Venice #ducats #NICER #spacewalk #patches #sunlight #interference

#CalTrain deputy director Joseph Vincent Navarro found #guilty of misappropriation of $40k in public funds for conspiring with contractor during pandemic era and converting #Burlingame train station office into secret personal residential getaway with private gym.

Navarro, who now lives in Pennsylvania and previously told the #MercuryNews that his criminal charge was “overstated” and that he did nothing wrong. His co-conspirator #contractor had built himself similar living quarters inside the #Millbrae Cal #trainstation and plead #guilty, turning States #evidence against Navarro.

Navarro , whose attorneys claimed it was not a #secret , that he had given the key to his secretary, allowed his girlfriend to stay there, and the conversion was done with knowledge of his supervisor, still faces sentencing under judge's discretion which could range from actual #prison time, to more likely #probation.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/30/caltrain-secret-apartment-station-trial-jury/?share=c2oarcethlscruenanuo #GiftLink #SharedStory #PaywallLift

TOMORROW!! Come join us at the SCC Government Center as we really for #SantaClaraCounty to opt-in to #SB63 and help get a massive amount of funding for #VTA, #Caltrain, #BART, and others! #publictransit

https://actionnetwork.org/events/rally-for-transit-in-santa-clara-county/

Another wonderful piece from Monica’s Mallon! #PublicTransit #SantaClaraCounty #VTA #BART #Caltrain
https://sanjosespotlight.com/mallon-why-i-care-about-transit-and-you-should-too/

#caltrain I used Caltrain yesterday and notices that the powers that be had put up a poster near the door. Unfortunately, they were rather clueless: they put it on a glass partition that you have to be able to see though to see the digital display that indicates the next stop. The picture below shows it almost completely hiding the display from where I was sitting.

I'm going to San Rafael on theater business today, and taking transit. Starting from the #RedwoodCity #CalTrain station.

Caltrain shows why every region should be moving toward regional rail

https://www.hsrail.org/blog/caltrain-shows-why-every-region-should-be-moving-toward-regional-rail/

#HackerNews #Caltrain #RegionalRail #Transportation #Sustainability #PublicTransit

Found on the #CalTrain. (In my usual seat, no less!) Someone out there is on the right path… #animation #forever

https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/news/55322853/caltrain-caltrain-to-start-receiving-compensation-for-clean-energy-returned-to-the-grid

CalTrain’s electrified train service creates enough electricity from the trains’ braking system that they can sell the electricity back to the grid 🤩

#trains #transit #Caltrain #sanfrancisco #california

@yantor3d @ascentale @realSiegfried @bikenite A6: I figured someone might share photos of how #CalTrain bike trains are set up but I couldn't find any photos of my own of that setup. I did find tons of photos of my bike on the #BART trains though - here's how they are. No separate compartment but you can bungee your bike to the rail to keep it stable and most cars have 1-2 areas for this that can prob accomodate like 2-3 bikes-ish #BikeNite

“The hope is for two round trips a day to San Jose, and looping in Amtrak’s Capital Corridor train on top of the existing, once-per-day Coast Starlight.

“'If it all worked well,' Muck says, 'it will be as early as 2028 for that to start.’”

- from report by David Schmalz in #MontereyCountyNow

https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_news/it-may-be-arriving-later-than-hoped-but-expanded-rail-service-to-the-bay-area/article_bc01f985-7d3f-40a8-8a2e-94b743a3c008.html

#Rail #Train #Amtrak #MontereyCounty #SFBA #Salinas #Gilroy #Pajaro #Watsonville #SanJose #CapitolCorridor #CoastStarlight #Caltrain #transportation

Caltrain at Jack London Square. And a crazy truck turning in front of train.

#train #trains #caltrain #oakland #sfba

Watching the Caltrain go by with their stupid high-efficiency higher-speed electrification and their stupid fancy new double decker cars without the wasted space of the old galley cars is making me SO MAD. :babyrawr:​

STOP BEING SO FANCY. *glares at it but double glares at Illinois for Metra being underfunded outdated trash* :vlpn_angry:​

...choo choo 🚂​ :neomouse_train_wagon:​

#Caltrain #Metra #Trains #IL #Illinois #Chicago #California #CA #BayArea

Finally riding electric #Caltrain! Noticed the clock at Redwood City shows two time zones! (Or they forgot to Spring forward one of them)

Been waiting on #caltrain at the Hillsdale stop for about 20 minutes, and I figure it's as good a time as any to say:

If you're struggling, help is available. Tell someone - anyone! You're not alone.

America’s most-improved regional rail line

Twenty-five years or so of traveling to the Bay Area for work and for family have not left me in the habit of handing out compliments to rail transit there. Between the limited route maps of Bay Area Rapid Transit and Muni Metro and the horribly expensive construction costs of projects like San Francisco’s 1.7-mile, $1.6 billion Central Subway, public transport around the Bay has too often served first as a lesson to others.

More recently–especially since Google moved its I/O developer conference to Mountain View in 2016–I’ve gotten acquainted with and also unimpressed by Caltrain’s commuter-rail service on the peninsula, run with trains hauled by aging, loud and polluting diesel locomotives. But this week’s I/O trip introduced me to a reinvented rail line that the rest of the U.S. should envy.

Between last May and this May, Caltrain completed a lengthy modernization project to string electric wires over 51 miles of track from San Francisco to San Jose and buy electric-multiple-unit, double-decker trainsets from the Swiss manufacturer Stadler.

So instead of waiting for my ride south from Milbrae to groan its way up to speed on Monday night, this train (packed with Giants fans on their way home from that night’s game) quietly whooshed out of the station. That faster acceleration from every stop helped my entire trip from SFO to Mountain View, starting with BART from the airport, take less time than just last year’s Caltrain ride from Milbrae to Mountain View.

Bunking down in an Airbnb four blocks from that station for the next three nights provided another reminder of how much better electrified trains are: I didn’t hear the roar of diesel engines, leaving just train horns at the nearby grade crossings.

Less obvious but also appreciated: the immense drop in air pollution at and near stations as well as onboard train cars.

My return trip up the peninsula Thursday morning, one of four northbound departures from Mountain View between 8 and 9 a.m., was as great as the ride down. Other passengers seemed to agree about the usefulness of the service, with the train looking as crowded as Monday night’s. Caltrain’s fare date for April showed a more than 50 percent jump in ridership compared to a year ago, outpacing growth at every other transit agency in the region.

(Bonus: the fastest train WiFi I’ve enjoyed to date.)

Outside the U.S., this is not that special–fast, frequent, electric-hauled trains are the default for regional rail service across Europe. But in most of the States, the best you can get outside a subway’s service area is a diesel engine, hopefully built in the last 15 years, hauling passenger cars. This trip to the Bay Area reminded me that we don’t have to accept that level of sluggish, noisy and dirty service as good enough.

We can, however, do better than Caltrain in electrifying regional rail lines, since that organization wound up spending $2.44 billion on this upgrade. Delusional NIMBY lawsuits, Trump adminstration unhelpfulness, and the pandemic aren’t its fault, but Caltrain can’t blame anybody else for an unnecessarily conservative infrastructure design and a botched proprietary train-control effort. And it still needs to raise station platforms to train-door levels to speed boarding and alighting.

A recent report called Momentum, written by veteran NYC transit reporter Nolan Hicks for New York University’s Marron Institute of Urban Management, provides a must-read playbook for other transit organizations about how to avoid design mistakes like Caltrain’s and electrify and accelerate their routes at lower costs.

Commuter-rail managers should read it. And if they find themselves needing to head south of San Francisco on their next trip to the Bay Area, they should take a ride on a line that may make them feel bad about their own service.

#BART #BayArea #Caltrain #catenary #commuterRail #diesel #electricMultipleUnit #electricTrain #electrification #EMU #GoogleIO #Muni #overheadWire #pollution #regionalRail

UPDATE: Bart appears to be back to normal. The hazardous material was evidence from the house explosion in SF yesterday, which explains the security and large closures.

For anyone using Bart today, there's no service between #Colma and #DalyCity because of a hazardous material situation in Daly City. They're advising people going to #SFO to use #Caltrain.

#SFBart #Bart #sfba #SanFrancisco #SF

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bart-service-disruption-police-activity-daly-city-colma-balboa-park-sf/

#ArtAdventCalender Day 10: 4th & King #Caltrain on #cinefilm

This was my commute station when I was new to the city, and this recent photo perfectly captures the vibe of heading home after work (minus some people about to miss their train).

#SanFrancisco #Photography #FilmPhotography #MastoArt

the #NTSB docket for the #Caltrain collision in #SanBruno between a train and construction crews has been out for a few weeks now: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/?NTSBNumber=RRD22MR007

"TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW OF TEMPORARY FOREMAN--CRANE OPERATOR " has some pretty wild stuff in it. It sounds like there have been a LOT of close calls involving crews working on the wrong track that had not been properly cleared of trains with dispatch.

(To be clear -- this is just one raw interview transcript. There are no official findings yet. So this is all just something some guy said, right now.)

“The hope is for two round trips a day to San Jose, and looping in Amtrak’s Capital Corridor train on top of the existing, once-per-day Coast Starlight.

“'If it all worked well,' Muck says, 'it will be as early as 2028 for that to start.’”

- from report by David Schmalz in #MontereyCountyNow

https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_news/it-may-be-arriving-later-than-hoped-but-expanded-rail-service-to-the-bay-area/article_bc01f985-7d3f-40a8-8a2e-94b743a3c008.html

#Rail #Train #Amtrak #MontereyCounty #SFBA #Salinas #Gilroy #Pajaro #Watsonville #SanJose #CapitolCorridor #CoastStarlight #Caltrain #transportation

“The hope is for two round trips a day to San Jose, and looping in Amtrak’s Capital Corridor train on top of the existing, once-per-day Coast Starlight.

“'If it all worked well,' Muck says, 'it will be as early as 2028 for that to start.’”

- from report by David Schmalz in #MontereyCountyNow

https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_news/it-may-be-arriving-later-than-hoped-but-expanded-rail-service-to-the-bay-area/article_bc01f985-7d3f-40a8-8a2e-94b743a3c008.html

#Rail #Train #Amtrak #MontereyCounty #SFBA #Salinas #Gilroy #Pajaro #Watsonville #SanJose #CapitolCorridor #CoastStarlight #Caltrain #transportation

“The hope is for two round trips a day to San Jose, and looping in Amtrak’s Capital Corridor train on top of the existing, once-per-day Coast Starlight.

“'If it all worked well,' Muck says, 'it will be as early as 2028 for that to start.’”

- from report by David Schmalz in #MontereyCountyNow

https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_news/it-may-be-arriving-later-than-hoped-but-expanded-rail-service-to-the-bay-area/article_bc01f985-7d3f-40a8-8a2e-94b743a3c008.html

#Rail #Train #Amtrak #MontereyCounty #SFBA #Salinas #Gilroy #Pajaro #Watsonville #SanJose #CapitolCorridor #CoastStarlight #Caltrain #transportation

“The hope is for two round trips a day to San Jose, and looping in Amtrak’s Capital Corridor train on top of the existing, once-per-day Coast Starlight.

“'If it all worked well,' Muck says, 'it will be as early as 2028 for that to start.’”

- from report by David Schmalz in #MontereyCountyNow

https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_news/it-may-be-arriving-later-than-hoped-but-expanded-rail-service-to-the-bay-area/article_bc01f985-7d3f-40a8-8a2e-94b743a3c008.html

#Rail #Train #Amtrak #MontereyCounty #SFBA #Salinas #Gilroy #Pajaro #Watsonville #SanJose #CapitolCorridor #CoastStarlight #Caltrain #transportation

Caltrain Kisses

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/39684

#BatteryTrain #Caltrain #Diesel #EMDF40PH #Railway #SBahn #Stadler #StadlerKiss #Train #Trains #Zürich

The trinity of SF transportation holiday sweaters is complete

No I don’t know why I did this either

#SanFrancisco #MUNI #BART #Caltrain #holidaysweaters

The trinity of SF transportation holiday sweaters is complete

No I don’t know why I did this either

#SanFrancisco #MUNI #BART #Caltrain #holidaysweaters

The trinity of SF transportation holiday sweaters is complete

No I don’t know why I did this either

#SanFrancisco #MUNI #BART #Caltrain #holidaysweaters