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I finally rode Muni the other day (not nearly as sketch as I imagined) and now need to ride BART.
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Old Posted May 27, 2023, 1:58 AM
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I finally rode Muni the other day (not nearly as sketch as I imagined) and now need to ride BART.
Gotta do it after 10pm for the full BART experience.
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Old Posted Jun 12, 2023, 5:34 PM
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Electric Trains Running on Caltrain Corridor for the First Time in 160 Year History
06/06/2023



The electrification of Caltrain has reached another major milestone as electric trains operated under power from the overhead contact system (OCS) for the first time.

Initial tests will be conducted between Santa Clara and College Park Stations on the Santa Clara Drill Track. Test runs will expand to the main track, between San Antonio and San Jose Diridon stations this summer.

“The start of testing for our new electric trains marks an historic moment for our agency, symbolizing tangible progress towards electrification” said Caltrain Executive Director Michelle Bouchard. “It signifies a future of improved service, reduced environmental impact and a more reliable experience that will benefit both our riders, and the communities that we serve.”

“Now that our new trains are running on our own power for the first time, it’s clear that the start of electrified service is just around the corner,” said Caltrain Board Chair Jeff Gee. “I couldn’t be more excited for our riders to experience the future of Caltrain next fall.”

Electric trains are quieter than Caltrain’s current diesel fleet, so the public is advised to pay close attention when crossing the tracks and to always wait for the gate to fully rise before crossing.

Caltrain’s historic Electrification Project is the first undertaking in North America in a generation in which diesel trains and their infrastructure components are transitioned to an electrified system.

The project will improve the customer experience by increasing the number of trains, modernizing service and adding new safety elements. The new trains will feature on board displays with digital trip information, increased storage capacities, baby-changing tables, Wi-Fi and power outlets at every seat.

Electrification will also help meet ambitious regional and state climate action goals by lowering greenhouse gas emissions, improving air quality and relieving traffic congestion. Additionally, electrified service will advance equity along the corridor by reducing noise and air pollution while increasing access for priority equity communities. It will also set the framework for California’s future High Speed Rail network that will run on the Caltrain corridor.
https://www.caltrain.com/news/electr...0-year-history
https://sf.streetsblog.org/2023/06/0...-runs-electric
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Old Posted Jun 28, 2023, 9:15 PM
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Here's a rather unique project that is also transportation related. Housing on top of a modernized bus yard.

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New Renderings For SFMTA’s Mixed-Use Potrero Yard Redevelopment



BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:30 AM ON JUNE 28, 2023

New renderings have been published for the full-block mixed-use redevelopment of the SFMTA Potrero Yard bus maintenance facility at 2500 Mariposa Street in San Francisco’s Mission District. The updated design shows a more refined exterior, though the housing capacity is reduced from 575 to 513 units. Plenary Group is responsible for the application.

The 150-foot tall structure will yield around 1.24 million square feet, with 636,900 square feet for the bus yard, 540,850 square feet for housing, and 9,440 square feet for retail. Unit sizes will vary, with 117 studios, 184 one-bedrooms, 144 two-bedrooms, and 68 three-bedrooms. Of the 513 units, the plans designate 101 for senior residents, 191 for families, 218 for workforce residents, and three for property managers. Residential and commercial parking will be included for 773 bicycles and no cars.

The new design by IBI Group shows a cohesive architectural approach. While the initial design was made to look like one apartment building built on top of another apartment building across Bryant Street, the new design has a clean white exterior with subtle setbacks for private balconies and the podium deck. The bus yard will be clad with decorated metal perforated panels and floor-to-ceiling glass.

The plan makes significant use of the seventh-floor podium deck as a residential amenity deck. The amenity space radiates from a central gathering space on the north end, connected to a dog run and one of two community gardens. Two paths will extend on opposite sides of the central tower toward separate gathering spaces and earth mounds. The two courtyards will be connected by a double-height hall carved out of the central tower. Residents will have access to 75,620 square feet of open space, reduced from 91,000 square feet in the 2021 plans.
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The background on the project:

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The Potrero Yard Modernization Project will replace an obsolete, century-old bus yard with a modern, three-story, efficient bus maintenance and storage facility, equipped to serve the SFMTA’s growing fleet as it transitions to battery electric buses.

A modern Potrero Yard will address critical transportation issues and improve:

Efficiency: Repair buses faster, improving Muni’s reliability
Sustainability: Provide the green infrastructure needed for an all-electric fleet
Future Growth: Accommodate fleet as it grows – room for 54% more buses at the yard
Work Conditions: Improve environments, amenities and safety conditions for 800+ SFMTA staff

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The PNC design includes a modern, three-story bus storage and maintenance transit facility, over 500 units of affordable housing for those with low or moderate incomes, and multiple opportunities for commercial retail and concessions. The project would be the nation’s first known joint development of a bus maintenance facility with housing constructed adjacent to and above– a groundbreaking approach that prioritizes a safe, equitable, and sustainable transportation system while also supporting the City’s housing goals.

The ambitious housing affordability goals are reliant on competitive City and non-City funding sources. Some of these state financing sources are highly competitive because funds are spread across the entire state, and there are many projects seeking financing every year. Should the project not secure these sources on a schedule that can accommodate the construction of the bus facility, the housing program may need to be amended.

The project is designed to support San Francisco’s sustainability, housing, and safety priorities as a Transit-First City. The project encourages public transit, bicycling and walking as sustainable alternatives to driving. Resident and public parking are not provided on-site.
- Up to 513 affordable housing units that include a mix of studio, 1-, 2-, and 3-bedroom units
- New public restrooms conveniently located near Franklin Square Park
- Improved pedestrian and bike infrastructure for enhanced safety and comfort
- An economic inclusion plan that prioritizes Local Business Enterprise (LBE) inclusion and local hire
- Onsite amenities such as family childcare centers, laundry facilities, and community rooms

Cost Estimate
$500 m (in 2019 dollars and exclusive of costs not directly related to construction)
Current Phase or Stage
Planning
Predicted Completion
2027
https://www.sfmta.com/projects/potre...zation-project

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Old Posted Jul 6, 2023, 3:39 PM
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Caltrain is starting testing tomorrow of the new electric trains between SJ and Santa Clara. The flyer says it'll start at walking speed and then increase to 79 mph. Testing will be conducted between 9 pm and 6 am.
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Link 21 to BART 2.0
Transport Oakland wants your help in planning a new and better rapid transit system for the Bay Area
3:10 PM PDT on July 11, 2023
By David Ying

The Bay Area is in the middle of the Link21 planning process, led by BART and Capitol Corridor, to design a second transbay tube. The region needs to adapt the program to post-pandemic travel needs, repair historical gaps and harms created by the current system, and learn from long standing international best practices for rail systems that connect urban cores to extended regions.

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Out of that conversation came the following principles:



Balance Neighborhood Impacts with Greater Neighborhood Access
Intercity and regional connectivity are important, but locations where major infrastructure upgrades are contemplated (Central Oakland, East Oakland, Richmond) must also benefit in terms of increased regional access. We must not repeat the mistakes of midcentury transportation infrastructure in disrupting communities solely to benefit suburban white collar commuters to Downtown SF. New stations and high levels of service/access must be provided in these locations.

Repair the Harms of BART 1.0 by Adding Infill Stations
Speaking of unfinished business, Link21 should commit to adding an infill station in the San Antonio District of Oakland, regardless of which type of rail is used. The gap between Lake Merritt and Fruitvale BART is the longest in the system’s urban core. The original buildout of BART went past Eastlake and San Antonio in order to prioritize service times to southern and eastern Alameda County suburbs. An infill station around 14th Avenue should be prioritized as part of the Link21 Program.Other BART infill stations could be considered such as 55th Avenue and 51st Street in Oakland. If a regional rail electrical multiple unit (EMU) option is chosen, infill regional rail stations could be added in Berkeley, Richmond, and Oakland as well.

This is especially important as BART faces down post-COVID financial challenges stemming from a drop-off in ridership. Since the explosion in remote work, longer-distance suburb-to-city center trips during peak hours have decreased significantly. Meanwhile, shorter-distance off-peak trips made primarily by service sector workers in the system’s urban core haven’t as much, smoothing out trip demand while requiring more frequency. Better serving these trips with ridership-generating infill stations and frequent all-day service would be both an equity boon and improve the fiscal health of BART in a particularly-dangerous time.

Prioritize Intermodal Transfer near Job Centers
A transfer between regional rail and BART gauge trains must be located near the Oakland Central Business District. This could occur at 14th Street and 980, Jack London or another location. Given Downtown Oakland’s continued job and housing growth, locating the primary intermodal transfer station on the East Bay side in West Oakland or at the Coliseum would be counterproductive. In contrast, there is a stronger argument for shifting the route on the West Bay side to new markets like Mission Bay. The job cluster of medical services, research, and universities near Mission Bay is more likely to continue to need transit in the future.

Maximize the Regional Rail Option with Transfers and Frequent Electric Shuttles
A second transbay crossing will undoubtedly be expensive, so we must make the most of it by maximizing trains per hour in the urban core while facilitating longer-distance travel. The Link21 planning materials sets up a contrast between options that serve core urban travel and options that serve longer distances. But an international model of regional rail supports both purposes with frequent and dense urban core service that also enables seamless longer-distance travel.

The Elizabeth Line’s high capacity and use at 24 trains per hour should be a benchmark for planning. If a regional rail option is selected for a second crossing, the reliability issues of passenger rail running on freight-owned rights of way may require some of those services to transfer at either Coliseum or Richmond in order to maintain schedule and operations for the tube. This will require a high-frequency Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) service to run between Coliseum/Richmond/MacArthur and points south of 4th and King or along a Geary subway to facilitate access to West Bay locations. Such a service can serve intercity riders seeking a rail trip into San Francisco as well as core Bay Area riders looking for fast, frequent service between the inner East Bay and the Peninsula.

Through-Running is a Must
Any option must allow trains to through-run between the Transbay Terminal and the to-be-determined Oakland hub. Terminal stations, where trains stop in a central city area and slowly turn around for a return trip, are an artifact of American commuter railroading that focused on trains serving white collar commute travel and de-emphasized other types of trips.

Through-running opens up more job markets, makes staffing easier, eases operational challenges, and allows more trains to run through a very expensive second tube. Link21 staff should not shy away from through-running options that may subvert expectations. For example, there is no reason why a subway to Geary cannot be a regional rail EMU with connections to Transbay Terminal and on through the second tube to Downtown Oakland, Oakland Coliseum or Richmond.
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Geary has seemed and always will seem ideal for BART. I don't see how a lower frequency Regional Rail/S-Bahn style line would be somehow better there.

As for the whole of the Link 21 study efforts, I worry that officials will be making extremely important long-term planning decisions in what is possibly the worst time to be able to determine what the future may hold. No one can see it. For all the "WFH is here to stay" voices we don't know if the immediate post-pandemic realities we're living through now will persist long into the future.
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Here's a nice little tour inside of the new trains as well:

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Oakland Airport expansion reflects the Bay Area’s changing demographics
Once the center of a rich aviation culture in the East Bay, the airport is set for a major upgrade — and possible return to glory

By WILLIAM MCCARTHY | wmccarthy@bayareanewsgroup.com |
PUBLISHED: July 25, 2023 at 6:00 a.m.

When the Oakland International Airport announced plans for a major expansion last week, the potentially profound implications for the Bay Area may not have been obvious — it’s long operated in the shadow of major airline hubs in San Francisco and San Jose.

But in fact, the often-overlooked airport may finally be catching up to the major role that aviation has played in the East Bay — and that the East Bay has played in aviation.

Last Wednesday, Oakland Airport officials published a draft environmental report outlining their plans for terminal modernization and development, an early step in a push to reimagine an airport that hasn’t seen significant upgrades in 40 years. The plan, which is currently open to public comment, outlines dramatic changes for the airport — including the construction of a new 830,000-square-foot terminal building, upgrades to existing facilities, and the addition of 16 gates to “meet increasing air travel demand.”

It’s an effort to tap into what many see as the airport’s potential to once again become a major player in the Bay Area.

The Oakland Airport has better weather and an easier approach for pilots than SFO. It is already a shipping hub, with major operations conducted by FedEx and UPS on site. Perhaps most importantly, it is well situated for the flight needs of a shifting Bay Area population.

“We are the closest airport to most of the 7.7 million people that live in the San Francisco Bay Area,” said John Albrecht, a manager of aviation marketing and communications with the Port of Oakland. “There’s tremendous opportunity for growth and development.”

For travelers coming from rapidly growing suburbs like Dublin, Walnut Creek and Livermore, a modernized airport with more space, more non-stop flights and more international flights would allow them to avoid traversing both the Caldecott Tunnel and the Bay Bridge on their way to SFO.

“That geographic advantage is something that Oakland can legitimately leverage,” said John Goodwin, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a public agency responsible for transportation planning in the Bay Area,

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For now, Oakland is the fourth or fifth largest airport in the state, behind Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, and roughly equivalent in size to San Jose and Sacramento. But it’s also been resilient, tracking at a faster recovery rate than other airports post-COVID.

“The status quo is always changing — especially at airports,” Goodwin said. “Virtually every airport is either undergoing construction, has just completed a big construction project, or is gearing up for a big construction project. You look 30 years ahead, you’ll see change is inevitable.”
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By Timothy Karoff
July 25, 2023

Last Tuesday night, people packed into a sold-out Roxie Theater to see what BART operators look at every day: the view from the front of the train.

In the opening voiceover to “Tunnel Vision: An Unauthorized BART Ride,” director Vincent Woo reads an invocation: “The landscape whizzes by as if you’re gliding through space like some kind of no-clipping ghost. Still, one thing bothers you: You can only see to the side.”

“Tunnel Vision” grew out of this curiosity. Armed with a suction cup, two GoPros (one was lost between San Bruno and Daly City), and a good-natured sense of mischief, Woo fastened a video camera to the front of a northbound train at SFO. He then rode the train 90 minutes to Pittsburg/Bay Point, where he hopped out, snagged his camera and took the footage home (after an awkward confrontation with a train operator). Over the point-of-view footage, Woo narrates bits of BART's history, interviews a train operator and even speaks with state Sen. Scott Wiener about the system’s funding crisis.

Woo, who is 34, has lived in the Bay Area for nearly his entire life. Before “Tunnel Vision,” he used to mount GoPros on Muni bike racks to capture the view from the front of the bus. “The footage wasn't as good because it just looks like you're driving a car,” he told SFGATE. “It's not otherworldly the way the BART footage is.”

“Otherworldly” is the right word. With their metal pipes and stained concrete walls, BART tunnels look like something out of a steampunk lair. As the train screams past regularly spaced fluorescent lights, the tunnel pulses with an orange glow; in the distance, light from the tunnel's mouth flares in the shape of a star. And finally, there’s the sound: a dull, grinding hum, constant but endlessly modulating.

Still, the best part of the experience was not the surreal footage but the chance to share it with an enthusiastic audience. The crowd was peppered with San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency merchandise: Muni hoodies and BART beanies and Christmas sweaters. When the train pulled into a station, the audience sometimes clapped and cheered. (16th and Mission got the most cheers. I tried to start a round of applause at Powell Street, but it didn’t catch on.) A man sitting in front of me began headbanging to the chime of the closing doors. On the tracks, these elements of public transit are banalities, but here in a dark theater, they became inside jokes, shared points of pride.

Near the start of the film, Woo interviews Michael Healy, who worked as BART’s director of public affairs from 1971 to 2005. (Healy also authored “BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System,” which Woo referred to fondly in our interview.) While the train travels from Balboa Park to Glen Park, Woo asks Healy, “Is there some aspect of BART that you think is particularly underappreciated by the public?”

“Yeah,” Healy laughs. “I would say the entire system.”
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^Excellent. A Welcome To An Experience for BART.
Yep. It's a really well done documentary with the voiceovers with informational tidbits, interviews including the creative one splicing in the BART announcement voices at 27:45, and the mini map. The shot with Caltrain rolling alongside after SFO at 2:40 was very cinematic as well.
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Yep. It's a really well done documentary with the voiceovers with informational tidbits, interviews including the creative one splicing in the BART announcement voices at 27:45, and the mini map. The shot with Caltrain rolling alongside after SFO at 2:40 was very cinematic as well.
Here's the Tunnel Vision - BART Movie.
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