BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer An eighth-of-a-cent sales tax that would bring $100 million a year to Caltrain would win on the November ballot if there is no […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A man is facing criminal charges after he punched two transit workers in Menlo Park and Belmont, a prosecutor said. On Friday around […]
By the Daily Post staff Firefighters extricated a 70-year-old man who was hit by a Caltrain at Oak Grove Avenue in Menlo Park this afternoon (June 12) and dragged under […]
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent After seeing passenger counts plummet by 97% due to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders in the Bay Area, Caltrain is forecasting a $20 million budget shortfall […]
Caltrain’s Hillsdale station in San Mateo closed Saturday, and could remain closed for up to six months to accommodate work on a rail crossing at 25th Avenue. The work will […]
MAY 5, 3 p.m. — The coroner has identified the victim in yesterday’s Caltrain incident as Jack Preston Newton, 75 of Redwood City. MAY 4, 5:30 p.m. — A person […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday (May 5) will vote on updating the sheriff’s office Tasers and whether it will […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The head of Caltrain and SamTrans, Jim Hartnett, is getting a raise that will boost his annual pay to $552,476 a year, and […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer This month Caltrain will begin testing its electric trains at a train manufacturing plant in Salt Lake City. They will be tested on […]
Caltrain announced today (March 26) that it will reduce its weekday train service by more than half starting next week amid sharp ridership losses due to the novel coronavirus. The […]
BY JEN NOWELL Daily Post Correspondent Caltrain’s Board of Directors is considering the idea of shaking things up at the transit agency, including changing up who picks the CEO, as […]
A southbound Caltrain hit an unoccupied vehicle at the Charleston Road crossing in Palo Alto at 8:41 p.m. Friday (Aug. 16). The train, No. 190, was carrying 306 passengers when […]
This story was originally printed in the Daily Post on July 8. BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Midweek Caltrain ridership has dropped 2.3% this year compared to last year, […]
By the Daily Post staff Caltrain has unveiled a draft of its long-range plan for improvements that anticipates a three-fold increase in ridership even though ridership has been falling for […]
By the Daily Post staff SamTrans and Caltrain, whose management is housed in the same building in San Carlos, can do a better job of coordinating schedules to reduce wait […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Caltrain saw 1.9% fewer weekday commuters in April 2019 than in April 2018, continuing a six-month trend of declining weekday ridership when compared […]
This story was originally printed April 16 in the Daily Post. BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Jim Hartnett, the head of Caltrain, SamTrans and the San Mateo County […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A man threw a rock at a moving Caltrain in Redwood City yesterday (May 10), hitting the train’s engineer in the head, causing […]
This story was originally printed on April 29 in the Daily Post. BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A survey commissioned by Caltrain shows that if the commuter railroad […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Average weekday ridership on Caltrain fell by 3.6% in February and 1.7% in March compared to the same months last year, according to […]
This was originally printed in the Daily Post on Dec. 23, 2018. BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Elon Musk, who once lived in Palo Alto and put his […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A Santa Clara County resident with measles took Caltrain between San Jose and San Francisco four times last week, possibly exposing unvaccinated people […]
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent The possibility that Caltrain riders could be pulling into the Brand X — or other corporate name — station is a step closer to […]
By the Daily Post staff Caltrain lost between 2% and 5.2% of weekday riders between late 2017 and late 2018, according to the agency’s own data. In October, an average […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The idea of putting Caltrain in a tunnel in Palo Alto is still alive. City Council on Tuesday (Jan. 22) rejected Ed Shikada’s […]
By the Daily Post staff Three teens are at large after they robbed a man of his phone and kicked him near the University Avenue Caltrain station last night (Jan. […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Caltrain is studying the idea of adding two more tracks from Palo Alto’s California Avenue station to Mountain View, bringing the number of […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A man who attempted to throw his estranged girlfriend onto the Caltrain tracks in Belmont was sentenced yesterday to five years in state […]
By the Daily Post staff The idea of putting Caltrain in a tunnel from one end of Palo Alto to the other could come to a screeching halt on Monday […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer With San Francisco getting a train tunnel in Chinatown and San Jose getting a BART tunnel, some Mid-Peninsula residents might be wondering, where’s […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Caltrain has pushed back the date by which it will install a federally mandated $239.9 million safety system meant to prevent deadly crashes […]
Correction: An earlier version of this story said that Caltrain spokesman Dan Lieberman said that the victim was hit when the train was rushing through the Menlo Park train station. […]
From staff and wire reports Caltrain, which is eying a new tax in two years, is hosting a series of community meetings on a business plan to define the long-term […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A woman miraculously survived after her car — which was trapped between backed-up traffic and a railroad crossing arm — was hit by a […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A proposed sales tax increase in San Mateo County this fall is intended to fund transportation projects and programs to reduce traffic congestion. […]
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