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UPDATE: Stanford student killed on Caltrain tracks

August 9, 2021 10:20 am

UPDATE, MONDAY, AUG. 9 — The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner today identified the man killed on the Caltrain tracks in Palo Alto as Jacob Aaron Meisel, 23, of Stanford. […]

Caltrain

Santa Clara County refuses to attend Caltrain governance meeting because of lawsuit threat

June 27, 2021 11:06 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The battle for control of Caltrain got uglier yesterday (June 25) when San Francisco and Santa Clara County officials refused to attend a […]

Caltrain

San Mateo County wants to settle an old score before talking about governance of Caltrain

June 23, 2021 12:01 am

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer San Mateo County officials are making it clear that they don’t intend to give San Francisco and Santa Clara County leaders more of […]

Opinion

Opinion: Top issues in Palo Alto in 1993 are familiar today

March 13, 2021 1:01 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor A friend the other day gave me a copy of a 1993 survey of Palo Alto residents commissioned by the city. The 28-year-old […]

Caltrain

Caltrain contractor cuts 40 jobs as ridership plunges

December 14, 2020 1:24 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer In an attempt to balance its books before getting money from the recently approved one-eighth-of-a-cent sales tax, Caltrain is furloughing about 40 people. […]

Caltrain

Google, Adobe, the Giants funding Caltrain tax campaign

October 16, 2020 11:41 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer In the past week, the proponents of Measure RR, the one-eighth-of-a-cent sales tax for Caltrain, have raised nearly a half-million dollars, getting donations […]

Caltrain

Caltrain launches study into bridges at rail crossings

September 25, 2020 9:34 am

BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Just as a Palo Alto community advisory group is finalizing its recommendations on how to separate the street from the Caltrain tracks at three […]

Opinion

Opinion: This should make Caltrain fans furious

August 3, 2020 6:33 pm

BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor We won’t know for sure until the deadline on Friday, but it looks like voters won’t see a Caltrain sales tax on the November […]

Caltrain

Caltrain tax will pass if there’s no organized opposition, pollster says

June 27, 2020 1:05 pm

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 […]

Caltrain

Man, 82, hit by train but is alive

June 12, 2020 2:43 pm

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 […]

Belmont

Body found near Caltrain tracks

June 11, 2020 11:59 am

A body was found next to the Caltrain tracks in Belmont early this morning, prompting delays in the system. A train engineer discovered the body around 5:55 a.m. next to […]

Caltrain

Caltrain to test electric trains this month

April 1, 2020 6:54 am

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

Caltrain slashes service by more than half

March 26, 2020 4:56 pm

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 […]

Opinion

Opinion: No rush on the rail crossing tax — take some time and get it right

December 31, 2019 8:00 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s becoming evident that Palo Alto officials won’t be able to make a good decision on the future of the rail crossings by […]

Redwood City

17-story building proposed at Sequoia Station as part of a 1.6-million-square-foot development

September 23, 2019 7:00 am

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A developer has proposed Redwood City’s largest project yet — a complete replacement of Sequoia Station with six buildings, including a 17-story tower, […]

Caltrain

Caltrain unveils long-range plan — trains every 15 minutes

July 23, 2019 2:27 pm

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 […]

Caltrain

SamTrans and Caltrain should improve schedule coordination, grand jury says

July 15, 2019 6:00 am

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 […]

Caltrain

Caltrain reports another monthly decrease in weekday ridership

June 5, 2019 7:30 am

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 […]

Menlo Park

Expert casts doubt on a train tunnel

May 23, 2019 7:17 am

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Stanford professor who is an expert on train tunnels is throwing cold water on the idea that Menlo Park might be able […]

Caltrain

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 […]

Caltrain

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 […]

Caltrain

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 […]

In the news

Sinkhole surprised Caltrans — One lane of Skyline Blvd. to reopen soon

February 21, 2019 1:10 am

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Caltrans officials are planning to partially reopen a 2-1/2 mile stretch of Skyline Boulevard by the end of the month, after a “surprise” […]

Caltrain

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 […]

Menlo Park

Council now wants three train bridges, not one

January 16, 2019 4:40 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Menlo Park City Council last night (Jan. 15) effectively reversed the previous council’s decision to build only one bridge for Caltrain in […]

Redwood City

Caltrain says train death in Redwood City was an ‘intentional act’

January 11, 2019 3:51 pm

Authorities believe a woman struck and killed by a train in Redwood City Friday morning may have been trying to commit suicide. “While it is early in the investigation, this […]

Palo Alto

City spends $5,000 on party for retiring city manager

January 4, 2019 1:35 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto city leaders spent $5,000 in taxpayer funds to throw a retirement party for former City Manager Jim Keene, according to documents […]

Caltrain

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 […]

Caltrain

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 […]

Caltrain

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 […]

Palo Alto

Residents say what they want from Stanford in exchange for allowing more growth on campus

December 2, 2018 11:04 am

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Stanford graduate student Alexa Russo opposed the development agreement being negotiated by Stanford and Santa Clara County supervisors. In fact, […]

Caltrain

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. […]

Caltrain

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 […]

Caltrain

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 […]

Caltrain

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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