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Endorsement: The Bay Area cannot function without public transit. Yes on the Regional Transit Measure
15+ hour, 8+ min ago (387+ words) Endorsement: The Bay Area cannot function without public transit....
Public transit leaders from across the Bay Area rode buses...
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (62+ words) Public transit leaders from across the Bay Area rode buses and trains through multiple systems, in an effort aimed at highlighting regional transit connections AI-generated briefing — triage, not the story; every claim links out to the coverage below....
Op-Ed: Hey AC Transit, Riders Already Paid for Reliability. It's Time to Deliver
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (146+ words) Thanks to our advertising sponsor - I appreciate the candor of the Staff report. It provides additional context around the widespread collapse of service. For example: Staff reports that 32,908 scheduled trips did not run from January through June, 44 percent because of…...
Limited BART service restored after disruptions across Bay Area
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (20+ words) CBS News Limited BART service restored after disruptions across Bay Area...
Seattle ranks 3rd in U.S. for shrinking commutes. Here???s why
1+ week, 5+ day ago (748+ words) Many Seattle residents have kept the pandemic's ultimate perk: trading the grueling I-5 crawl for a morning commute to the living room. The most recent census data, from 2024, shows that about one-quarter of the city's employed residents now work from home....
It may not feel like it, but the average commute in Seattle has gotten shorter
1+ week, 5+ day ago (736+ words) Many Seattle residents have kept the pandemic’s ultimate perk: trading the grueling I-5 crawl for a morning commute to the living room. The most recent census data, from 2024, shows that about one-quarter of the city’s employed residents now work from…...
Oakland-Alameda ferry returns to service
2+ week, 4+ day ago (280+ words) San Francisco Bay Ferry's Oakland-Alameda water shuttle returned to normal service, ending a three-week outage caused by a pair of outboard engine failures, the operator announced on Wednesday. The 31-passenger pontoon boat Woodstock, which runs the short cross-estuary route between…...
The Bay Area transit tax Is a massive national outlier — OPPORTUNITY NOW
3+ week, 19+ hour ago (299+ words) Jernej Furman from Slovenia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Voters across the country are seeing modest, short-term transit proposals or outright rejecting new tax hikes. Thunder Parley, CIO, Committee for Affordable Bay Area Transit, reviews transit ballot measures across the…...
Weekend Roundup: Transit Month, AC Transit Ghost Buses...
3+ week, 2+ day ago (168+ words) Thanks to our advertising sponsor - Here are three quick Streetsblog news nuggets to start your weekend. Get pumped for transit month Advocates are getting fired up for September, which is transit month. From the San Francisco Transit Riders: Play “Bus…...
“Flexing” Funds Isn’t the Answer to Bay Area Transit Agencies’ Fiscal Woes
3+ week, 4+ day ago (122+ words) But are new taxes really the only way to address transit’s operating needs? Some tax opponents have suggested that other transit funding designated for capital projects could be “flexed” or shifted to fill operating deficits. SPUR investigated that idea and…...