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. […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 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” […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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