It’s official: according to the WalkScore.com rankings, San Francisco has been determined to be America’s most walkable city, as reported by the Chronicle. Our fair city’s score of 86 out of 100 just edged out New York’s 83, Boston’s 79, Chicago’s 76, and Philadelphia’s 74. The WalkScore algorithm does have some shortcomings (which the site [...]
Over a year ago, before this website was born, the conceptual proposals were released for Bay Area regional rail expansion projected for the next 50 years. Included among the plans is a second tube for the San Francisco-Oakland Transbay corridor, providing additional core capacity for a crucial regional link that is already a bottleneck point [...]
I generally try to keep the posts here above the realm of merely whining, but every once in awhile, a little whining is in order. You may have caught the recent SFist article about the broken change machine at Church Station — and the would-be rider pleading with the station agent to take her money, [...]
14 February 2008 – 9:23 am
On this day two years ago, Caltrain held a contest to get people in the right mood for Valentine’s Day. Caltrain accepted submissions of poems and selected a few winners. Since it was for Valentine’s Day, the poems were supposed to be about love — either a poem describing some sort of romance on the [...]
20 December 2007 – 10:00 am
If you haven’t gotten to it already, please check out the introductory post. Also, the San Francisco half of the map can be found in this post.
Unlike the San Francisco half of the map, which takes a stab at expanding both the BART and Muni Metro systems, the East Bay half of the map assumes [...]
19 December 2007 – 11:58 pm
If you haven’t gotten to it already, please read the introductory post. Also, click here for the East Bay half of the map, which has now been posted.
This first post will cover the San Francisco half of the subway dream; tomorrow’s post will address the East Bay half. In the introductory post, I stated [...]
8 December 2007 – 11:40 pm
Okay, let’s get the bad news out of the way first. Starting January 1, 2008, BART fares will increase 5.4%, between 10 and 30 cents, depending on the trip. The minimum fare will rise from $1.40 to $1.50.
The good news is that also starting January 1, we’ll be seeing substantial service increases. The previous squabble [...]
26 September 2007 – 4:22 pm
Currently, individual BART routes run on 15 minute headways during the weekdays, but on nights and weekends, headways increase to 20 minutes. Earlier this year, BART proposed decreasing headways to 15 minutes all the time, any day of the week. The money to pay for the additional maintenance, labor and operating costs came from a [...]
11 September 2007 – 8:40 am
Over the course of the past few years, the date September 11 has come to carry weighty and emotional connotations, but long-time residents of the Bay Area might remember September 11 for a completely different reason — namely, the BART system’s first day of passenger service. Since BART’s opening year was 1972, that would make [...]
6 September 2007 – 1:13 pm
In an article from a couple days ago, the Chronicle combines various anecdotes from late-night party people, workers, and station agents, all showing a generally high level of enthusiasm for the 24-hour service BART ran while the Bay Bridge was shut down this past weekend — enthusiasm supported by the fact that BART achieved all-time [...]
