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San Francisco region's commuter trains are running again after hours-long stoppage

The San Francisco region's commuter trains were running again after a malfunction shut the entire system down for several hours Friday morning

The Independent UK

BART Service Disrupted Due To Earthquake And Tsunami Warnings

BART service disruptions post-earthquake in San Francisco due to tsunami warnings impact commuters.

Top News

San Jose and the reemergence of the donut city

The specter of downtown decline is again haunting American cities.

The Conversation

Transit Agencies Demand Taxpayer Subsidies To Stave Off 'Death Spirals.' There's a Better Way.

Service cuts that reflect falling demand and zoning reforms that bring more fare-paying residents back to cities could shore up transit agencies' budgets.

Reason

Bristol Avon RiverBlitz returns to save the waterways

With seven successful years under its belt, BART hopes to see a record number of participants signing up this year

Bristol Post

Advocates: Reparations are the answer for sea level threat in West Oakland, Calif.

Reparations are one way to confront the rising sea levels in West Oakland, Calif.

WEKU

Commentary: Downtown San Francisco had a good run. Can it recover?

Downtown San Francisco is in distress. Indicators of urban well-being point in the wrong direction: office occupancy, BART ridership and retail foot traffic are down, as is the city’s population. Every week brings news of another high-profile exit: Recent closures include a Whole Foods flagship and Nordstrom, which announced the…

Los Angeles Times

Problems With Mass Transit Won't Be Solved With More Money

The transit systems we're supposed to hop aboard ultimately operate as jobs programs for government workers.

Reason

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Evening Standard

A landmark to toast 900 years of Barts: cancer centre could transform lives

Exclusive: London’s oldest hospital launches campaign to raise money for centre to treat capital’s most vulnerable patients

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Our ‘On the Breadline’ campaign is helping Londoners through the cost of living crisis

Your generosity is still hard at work. Today the Evening Standard has handed out more than £1 million to charities supporting disadvantaged people across the capital, taking the total distributed from our On the Breadline campaign to nearly £4 million.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: LA’s half-empty, crime-ridden Metro trains don’t have to stay that way

It’s no secret that the pandemic devastated public transit systems across the country, and Los Angeles’ ever-expanding Metro rail system is no exception. With many white-collar employees now working remotely for all or much of the week, ridership on the region’s subway and light-rail lines is still around just two-thirds…

The Independent UK

Magnitude 5.1 quake strikes in San Francisco Bay Area

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has rattled the San Francisco Bay Area

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Tribune News Service

How clever mechanics keep 50-year-old trains running in the Bay Area: Windows 98, eBay and scraps

When Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) first carried passengers, the country was sending astronauts to the moon. The Apollo-era trains were symbols of a generation barreling toward a space-age future complete with carpeted floors and a seat promised to every passenger.

Tribune News Service

The Bay Area was California’s transit mecca. Now car-crazy LA has more train and bus riders

When Los Angeles shuttered its last streetcar in 1963, the Bay Area was already planting the seeds of BART, the expansive rail system that embodies a common refrain in the longstanding competition between Southern and Northern California: Angelenos are gas-guzzlers stuck in parking-lot traffic, while the Bay Area has built…

Los Angeles Times

Man rides Bay Area train for 7 hours. He ends up dead at the end of the line

A seven-hour train ride for one passenger in the San Francisco Bay Area last week ended with him on the train — and dead.

Daily Mirror

How traditional BBQ has changed over the years - from grilled halloumi to brioche rolls

A study found almost seven in ten reckon barbecues have moved on from the days of burgers and sausages served in sesame seed rolls with iceberg lettuce and a dollop of supermarket coleslaw

Tribune News Service

California budget ends high-speed rail standoff, sends billions to other projects

After wrangling over the future of California’s high-speed rail, state lawmakers plan to release a critical batch of money to finish a bullet train in the Central Valley, while also establishing an inspector general to audit the beleaguered project and authorizing billions of dollars in new money for rail plans…

Tribune News Service

Mask mandate on US transit set to expire as omicron cases tick up

Passengers on U.S. airlines and public transit will get their first chance in more than a year to travel without a mask next week, if the federal government sticks to its current plan to let a pandemic-era mandate expire.

Chicago Sun-Times

For public transit to be viable, riders must feel they’re safe on trains and buses

The city has taken steps in the right direction to enhance public transit safety but should consider bringing back conductors to its L trains.

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