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Caltrain hits empty vehicle in Palo Alto
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 […]
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Caltrain ridership numbers drop
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, […]
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Caltrain unveils long-range plan — trains every 15 minutes
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 […]
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SamTrans and Caltrain should improve schedule coordination, grand jury says
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 […]
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Caltrain reports another monthly decrease in weekday ridership
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 […]
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Caltrain, SamTrans, Transit Authority boss gets $50,000 bonus
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 […]
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Caltrain engineer hit by rock as train rolls through Redwood City
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 […]
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Caltrain tax falls short in poll
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 […]
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Caltrain ridership falls in February, March
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 […]
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Musk won’t dig a tunnel in Palo Alto
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 […]
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Measles carrier traveled on Caltrain
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 […]
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Caltrain to sell naming rights to stations, trains
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 […]
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Caltrain ridership down
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 […]
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Council reduces rail crossing options, tunnel still alive
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 […]
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Three teens attack man near University Ave. train station
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. […]
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Four tracks possible for a large portion of Palo Alto
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 […]
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Man who attempted to throw woman on tracks sent to prison
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 […]
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Council may kill the idea of a citywide Caltrain tunnel
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 […]
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Caltrain tunnel is unlikely
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 […]
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Caltrain misses another deadline to install safety system
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 […]
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Investigators looking into death of man killed on Caltrain tracks
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. […]
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Caltrain, eying a tax in two years, is hosting meetings on its long-term plans
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 […]
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Train nearly kills woman trapped on tracks
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 […]
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Proposed county transportation tax hike won’t provide much money for Caltrain bridge projects
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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Woman says that if she were white, Caltrain conductor would have been charged with sex assault
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The woman who has filed a claim saying she was sexually assaulted by a Caltrain conductor said yesterday (July 4) that if she […]
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Here’s why the investigation into claim a Caltrain conductor raped a passenger was stopped
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Prosecutors decided not to file charges against a Caltrain conductor accused of sexually assaulting a drunken passenger because she appeared sober enough to […]
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Councilman says Caltrain might have to close during construction
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent As Peninsula cities begin making decisions on how to separate the railroad tracks from car traffic ahead of Caltrain electrification and high-speed rail, one […]
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Reported rape on Caltrain slips through the cracks
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The Post printed a startling story Wednesday about a Caltrain conductor accused of raping a 22-year-old Mountain View woman in an employees-only area […]
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Caltrain conductor accused of rape
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A 22-year-old Mountain View woman has filed a claim against Caltrain, alleging that a conductor raped her in an employees-only area of the […]
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Redwood City lagging behind other cities when it comes to rail bridges
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Redwood City is still working on options to separate train tracks from roads with bridges, lagging behind other mid-Peninsula cities. City and San […]
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Caltrain hits empty car at Charleston Road crossing
A Caltrain hit an unoccupied car Sunday (March 25) night in Palo Alto at the Charleston Road crossing, the second time in six weeks such an incident has happened there. […]
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Palo Alto to replace track watch guards with cameras
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Video cameras that will eventually replace the guards who watch the train tracks in Palo Alto to prevent suicides will begin to be […]
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Caltrain may change contractors in hopes of meeting federal deadline for safety system
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer With a federal deadline just nine months away for most railroads to install speed-control technology, Caltrain’s board of directors today (March 1) will […]
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Bike, pedestrian tunnel under Caltrain proposed
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale will each chip in for a $1.2 million feasibility study on a future bicycle and pedestrian […]
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Safety feature missing from Amtrak train that crashed in Washington state and Caltrain
From staff and wire reports The rush to launch service on a new, faster Amtrak route near Seattle came at a deadly cost: none of the critical speed-control technology that […]