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Celebrating a Milestone and Biding Time
Hey, Caltrain: nice work. This past fiscal year, the underappreciated regional rail corridor linking Santa Clara, San Mateo, and San Francisco Counties has enjoyed the highest annual ridership in its history (now 145 years and counting): close to 12 million riders, or an average of almost 38,000 each weekday. The average weekday ridership in May … Continue reading
New Feature: BART Track Map
Here’s one from the geek box: not a map of BART routes, but tracks. The image at left of the Oakland Wye, the center of the BART system, is clipped from the track map. This humble effort is not a transcription of any official BART documentation. Rather, it is simply a compilation of memories formed … Continue reading
On Walkability, Density, and Transit Villages
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 … Continue reading
Missing Geary Misses the Point
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 … Continue reading
Downtown SF Stations: Frustratingly Amateur
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, … Continue reading
A Valentine’s Day Ode to Caltrain
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 … Continue reading
Subway Dream (East Bay)
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 … Continue reading
Subway Dream (San Francisco)
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 … Continue reading
Best Wishes for 2008 from BART: Extra Service, Higher Fares
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 … Continue reading
More Frequent BART Service Next Year
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 … Continue reading
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