Transportation

Council Joins State Leaders to Announce Path to Save – and Reform – Bay Area Public Transit image

Council Joins State Leaders to Announce Path to Save – and Reform – Bay Area Public Transit

This week Bay Area Council Chair Kristina Lawson joined state Senators Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and Jesse Arreguin (D-Berkeley) to announce t...
Big Win for San José Transit – Airport Connector Project Moves Forward image

Big Win for San José Transit – Airport Connector Project Moves Forward

A bold initiative to link Silicon Valley’s transportation and employment centers using a public private partnership (P3) model and innovative tra...
BART Reports Drop in Fare Evasion with Installation of New Secure Fare Gates image

BART Reports Drop in Fare Evasion with Installation of New Secure Fare Gates

With the continuing installation of new secure fare gates, BART is reporting a decline in fare evasion. In a quarterly survey of riders, 17% said t...
Tracking Bay Area Transit Recovery: Explore the Latest Data image

Tracking Bay Area Transit Recovery: Explore the Latest Data

The COVID-19 pandemic and the widespread shift to remote work caused a dramatic decline in transit ridership across the Bay Area’s 27 transit age...
Decision Near on Fix for Richmond–San Rafael Bridge Traffic image

Decision Near on Fix for Richmond–San Rafael Bridge Traffic

Similar to the traffic slog that needlessly delays weekday commuters traveling west on the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge connecting Contra Costa and...
Report Highlights Urgency in Fixing California’s Broken Permitting System image

Report Highlights Urgency in Fixing California’s Broken Permitting System

The Assembly Select Committee on Permitting Reform, chaired by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), yesterday (March 5) released its report deta...
Council Calls for Efficiency Review to Restore Voter Confidence in Transit Funding image

Council Calls for Efficiency Review to Restore Voter Confidence in Transit Funding

As the region grapples with how to ensure that our trains, buses, and ferries continue to run, a new poll by the Metropolitan Transportation Commis...
Critical SF Commuter Bus Line Resumes Service after Council’s Advocacy image

Critical SF Commuter Bus Line Resumes Service after Council’s Advocacy

A widely popular San Francisco bus line that daily shuttled hundreds of commuters from the Marina District and other northern neighborhoods to the ...

What’s In a Name? A Lot, It Seems

The Port of Oakland last week announced it is considering modifying the name of the Metropolitan Oakland International Airport to the San Francis...
There’s a New Dolphin on the Bay image

There’s a New Dolphin on the Bay

On Monday (March 25) Bay Area Council President and CEO Jim Wunderman joined his fellow SF Bay Ferry board members, Assembly Transportation Committ...
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