Transportation

Council Applauds Appointment of Andrew Fremier to Lead Metropolitan Transportation Commission image

Council Applauds Appointment of Andrew Fremier to Lead Metropolitan Transportation Commission

The Bay Area Council this week applauded the appointment of veteran transportation leader Andrew Fremier as Executive Director of the Metropolitan ...
BART Doubling Police Presence on Trains image

BART Doubling Police Presence on Trains

Moving to address concerns about safety and cleanliness on the region’s backbone transit system, BART President Janice Li this week announced pub...
Member Spotlight: BART Unveils New Communications Campaigns to Complement Ridership Recovery image

Member Spotlight: BART Unveils New Communications Campaigns to Complement Ridership Recovery

With a focus on rider experience and community engagement, especially of younger demographics, BART has unveiled new campaigns to help complement t...
<a>Restoring Rider Confidence Critical to BART’s Future</a> image

Restoring Rider Confidence Critical to BART’s Future

Restoring public confidence in the safety of BART is critical to restoring ridership on the Bay Area’s backbone public transit system. That was t...
Latest Return to Work/Transit Survey Shows New Habits Getting Locked In image

Latest Return to Work/Transit Survey Shows New Habits Getting Locked In

Since April 2021, the Bay Area Council has been collecting data from the Bay Area’s biggest employers on their return to work plans in order to b...
Bay Watch: As Transit Struggles, Traffic Surges image

Bay Watch: As Transit Struggles, Traffic Surges

Since the onset of the pandemic, transit agencies that rely on office workers for sustained ridership have struggled to recover. This decline in ec...
Council Applauds State Grant to Complete Caltrain Electrification image

Council Applauds State Grant to Complete Caltrain Electrification

This week the State of California awarded $367 million to Caltrain to complete its electrification project that will fully electrify the passenger ...
Bay Area Council Hails State Supreme Court Ruling Rejecting Challenge to Regional Measure 3 (RM3) image

Bay Area Council Hails State Supreme Court Ruling Rejecting Challenge to Regional Measure 3 (RM3)

The Bay Area Council today (Jan. 25) released the following statement applauding a ruling by the state Supreme Court defeating a legal challenge to...
Council Urges State Funding to Avoid Transit Fiscal Cliff image

Council Urges State Funding to Avoid Transit Fiscal Cliff

Staring down the barrel of at least a $22 billion budget deficit, Gov. Newsom and the Legislature will have some hard choices to make in the coming...
Council Applauds Federal Grant for Critical Golden Gate Bridge Seismic Work image

Council Applauds Federal Grant for Critical Golden Gate Bridge Seismic Work

Federal officials gathered in San Francisco this week (Jan. 23) to celebrate the awarding of a $400 million federal grant to seismically retrofit t...
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