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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 […]
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Strange incident at Caltrain station ends in an arrest
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
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
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
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 […]