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UNBELIEVABLE: Caltrain - Caught on Camera

Did the Bay Area just save its transit system from the brink of certain death?

Voters approved two measures to save the region’s financially distressed public transit agencies

The Guardian - US · Nov 7

Two multi-county transit districts—in California and Colorado—will decide on sales tax measures to fund public transportation projects in November

Voters in two metropolitan areas will decide ballot measures to levy sales taxes to fund multicounty public transportation systems on Nov. 3, 2026.

Ballotpedia · Sep 9

Brickbat: Work–Life Balance

Two former employees of Caltrain, a California public commuter rail line, were sentenced to jail for embezzling public funds to… The post Brickbat: Work–Life Balance appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason · Jun 24, 2025

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Birth of a YIMBY Folk Hero

Plus: The White House's rent controls, San Francisco's bad-to-worse turn on housing, and the latest unintended consequence of eviction moratoriums

Reason · Apr 2, 2024

The last overnight train between LA and SF ran in 1968. A startup wants to bring it back

The last time an overnight train connected Los Angeles and San Francisco was 55 years ago.

Los Angeles Times · Apr 19, 2023

The Bay Area was California’s transit mecca. Now car-crazy LA has more train and bus riders

When Los Angeles shuttered its last streetcar in 1963, the Bay Area was already planting the seeds of BART, the expansive rail system that embodies a common refrain in the longstanding competition between Southern and Northern California: Angelenos are gas-guzzlers stuck in parking-lot traffic, while the Bay Area has built…

Tribune News Service · Aug 30, 2022

High-speed rail route from San Francisco to San Jose wins approval. What happens next?

FRESNO, Calif. — Over concerns of a pair of Bay Area cities, the California High-Speed Rail Authority board finalized its choice of a route alternative for about 49 miles of tracks between San Francisco and San Jose.

Tribune News Service · Aug 19, 2022

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$5.3 billion: San Jose to San Francisco high-speed rail costs balloon by over 200%

Plagued by years of funding shortages and spiraling costs, California’s beleaguered high-speed rail project suffered another unexpected blow this month in a new report that more than tripled the cost estimate for the San Francisco-to-San Jose segment to a staggering $5.3 billion.

Tribune News Service · Jun 20, 2022

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