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Caltrain, SamTrans, Transit Authority boss gets $50,000 bonus

May 21, 2019 5:41 am

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

May 11, 2019 10:26 am

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

May 11, 2019 1:01 am

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

May 2, 2019 5:36 pm

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

April 28, 2019 1:03 pm

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

April 10, 2019 1:12 am

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

April 2, 2019 5:47 am

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

March 21, 2019 10:36 pm

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

January 27, 2019 10:01 am

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

January 15, 2019 12:20 pm

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

December 29, 2018 12:45 pm

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

December 23, 2018 11:46 am

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

December 16, 2018 4:09 pm

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

December 12, 2018 3:03 pm

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

December 7, 2018 6:43 am

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

November 29, 2018 4:33 pm

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

November 12, 2018 2:55 pm

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

October 23, 2018 10:33 pm

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

July 13, 2018 9:48 am

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

July 5, 2018 7:31 pm

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

July 1, 2018 1:52 pm

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

June 26, 2018 8:25 pm

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

June 25, 2018 1:11 pm

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

June 21, 2018 5:15 pm

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

June 16, 2018 11:08 am

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

March 26, 2018 8:24 am

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

March 21, 2018 4:48 pm

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

March 1, 2018 12:34 am

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

December 28, 2017 10:06 pm

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

December 21, 2017 12:18 am

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 […]

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Strange incident at Caltrain station ends in an arrest

October 26, 2017 11:36 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A man has been arrested for allegedly stealing a teenage boy’s cellphone, ripping the windshield wipers off a car and swinging a traffic […]

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Proposed Caltrain tax meets resistance

September 3, 2017 1:01 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer After years of resentment over not having a voice on Caltrain’s board, Palo Alto City Council has put off a vote on whether […]

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Peninsula rail freight service put up for sale

September 1, 2017 3:04 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Union Pacific plans to stop using the Caltrain tracks for freight trains and turn that business over to another railroad. Several potential bidders […]

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Caltrain hires troubled contractor

July 15, 2017 9:40 pm

BY JEN NOWELL Daily Post Staff Writer The same company that installed the malfunctioning safety equipment on a railroad in Denver, which had drivers leaving their cars to push up […]

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