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SF Muni live bus map
Go here and watch the pretty moving icons representing the location of various buses in San Francisco.
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Bay Area transit on Memorial Day Holiday
A selection of Bay Area transit service notes for Memorial Day on May 27, 2013. I’ve sampled the Google Transit schedules for Monday for a handful of these agencies and it appears Google correctly chooses the Memorial Day holiday schedule for VTA, AC Transit, BART, Capitol Corridor and Caltrain. If you test the other services read more »
The amazing beggar-proof Subaru!
Subaru claims you can avoid unpleasant encounters with people holding “Need Work God Bless” signs if you buy one of their cars! The Halifax Nova Scotia Media Co-op points out Subaru’s ad in a Canadian paper claims the Impreza has a superior safety record to the city bus (!), creates less air pollution than public read more »
VTA budget notes
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) are working on their biennial budget for fiscal 2014 and 2015. VTA’s fiscal year begins on July 1. Here are my quick observations from selections of the draft budget. 49ers Stadium: the new 68,500 seat 49ers stadium in Santa Clara will open in August 2014. VTA acknowledges the read more »
Today’s collection of creeps and weirdos on the bus
I volunteered this morning for a field trip at my daughter’s school so I took a much later bus than usual, where I met a whole new crew of creeps and weirdos for the trip to my office. I was second to last boarding the bus and I took what I thought was the last read more »
Santa Cruz Big Basin bus service in jeopardy before it even starts
Do you remember my excitement yesterday over the possible restoration of bus service to Big Basin Redwoods State Park and Waddell Beach? That excitement might be premature. Budgetary juggling at the Federal and regional level may end up leaving Santa Cruz METRO a little short of cash. TL;DR SUMMARY – IT ROLLS DOWNHILL The Santa read more »
Santa Cruz METRO considers bus service to Big Basin State Park & Waddell Creek
The Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District (“METRO”) board of directors will meet Friday, April 12 to decide on weekend bus service to Big Basin Redwoods State Park and Waddell Beach in Santa Cruz County. TL;DR Summary Santa Cruz Metro Board will vote this Friday to restore bus service to Big Basin State Park and Waddell read more »
SamTrans schedules added to Google Maps
SamTrans — the San Mateo County Transit District located south of San Francisco — announced the availability of their bus route and schedule information on Google Maps beginning today. San Mateo County encompasses all of the San Francisco Peninsula south of the city and county of San Francisco. The transit system operates what are basically read more »
Google Maps adds live transit info
Google Maps announced the inclusion of live transit updates showing the predicted arrival of subway trains for New York City MTA, and buses and trams in Salt Lake City. Transit with live departure times are shown with a pulsing gray dot next to the predicted arrival time. Google Maps also announced live service alerts for read more »
New drivers for Santa Cruz METRO
Congratulations to the 16 new bus operators for Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District (“METRO”) who graduated from their driver training class today.
Metro’s recently expanded schedule has left them scrambling for drivers. These n… Continue reading