Santa Clara County
Legislator wants to shake up VTA
This story first appeared in Friday’s Daily Post. To get all of the local news first, pick up the Daily Post in the mornings at 1,000 local locations. By the […]
VTA
Santa Clara County
VTA considers cutting road repair money to pay for BART-to-San Jose
By the Daily Post staff VTA is floating the idea of using 75% of the money from 2016’s Measure B sales tax over 10 years to fund construction of the […]
Caltrain
Electrification will raise Caltrain’s operating costs 33%
BY JEN NOWELL Daily Post Correspondent Once Caltrain electrifies its tracks, transit officials estimate it could cost at least $208 million a year to operate the commuter railroad — a […]
Palo Alto
Palo Alto City Council meeting Zoom Bombed
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council tonight became the latest government body to be hit with profanities over the teleconferencing platform Zoom. During a discussion […]
Santa Clara County
Virtual VTA board meeting hacked by ‘Zoom bombers’
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Hackers yelled profanities and projected x-rated images on-screen during the Valley Transportation Authority Board of Directors’ video meeting Thursday night. The meeting was […]
Palo Alto
Palo Alto may not get the rail crossing funds it was expecting from VTA
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto may not be getting as much money as city leaders had expected for Caltrain crossings from the half-cent Measure B sales […]
Opinion
Here’s what was happening in Palo Alto when man landed on the moon
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor First, I’d like to thank all of the people who wrote to us about their memories of watching the first moonwalk. We received […]
Santa Clara County
Grand jury says VTA is expensive and inefficient
This story was originally printed in the Daily Post on June 22. Don’t be the last to know — pick up the Daily Post every morning at more than 1,000 […]
Mountain View
City finds a place for car campers to park, but neighbor isn’t happy
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Weeks after setting into motion a plan to eventually ban RVs from parking on city streets, Mountain View City Council has voted to […]
Los Altos
Man arrested in Los Altos for spreading substance in VTA bus and tampering with food at Safeway
By the Daily Post staff Santa Clara County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a man suspected of spreading white powder and hydrogen peroxide on a VTA bus and tampering with food […]
Santa Clara County
VTA wants to end all-night bus that the homeless use as a shelter
Editor’s note: This story has been clarified to explain how some homeless people get free passes to ride the bus. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer VTA is considering […]
Mountain View
Mountain View acquiring property for a reversible bus lane on N. Shoreline Blvd.
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Mountain View is preparing to buy seven 8-foot slices of land along N. Shoreline Boulevard in order to make room […]
Palo Alto
Residents vent about traffic to City Council
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Two months after apologizing for a dismissive comment about Palo Alto’s traffic problem, Mayor Liz Kniss did her penance last night: by listening […]
Santa Clara County
VTA wins court battle over Measure B funds
By the Daily Post staff VTA today (Oct. 18) has won a lawsuit that had stopped the agency from spending money from the $6.3 billion Measure B sales tax increase […]
Mountain View
Cities wrestle over funds for rail crossings
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The cities of Palo Alto and Mountain View are at odds with the city of Sunnyvale over how to allocate funds for rail […]
Santa Clara County
VTA wants longer hours for carpool lanes and wants to charge drivers of EVs and two-person cars
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer VTA is seeking to extend the hours during which drivers have to pay a toll to use express lanes — and to start […]
Google
VTA says it must spy on buses with Apple, Google workers
VTA set up six cameras to count how many buses carrying Apple and Google and other tech employees are using its roads after the companies refused to share that information. […]
Santa Clara County
VTA says bus-only lanes on El Camino are dead
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer VTA’s unpopular plan to block off two lanes of traffic on El Camino Real for dedicated bus service between Palo Alto and Santa […]
Mountain View
Council to explore three possible tax measures
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Despite soaring revenues and a hefty surplus, Mountain View City Council unanimously decided last night to explore three possible tax measures for November: […]
In the news
Python found on seat of VTA bus
By Bay City News. Passengers on a VTA bus in Menlo Park discovered an abandoned python on a seat, an animal welfare official said yesterday. The snake, which has been […]
Los Altos
Councilwoman flies to Amsterdam, Barcelona to study transit
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Taxpayers and a political advocacy organization paid for Los Altos Mayor Jeannie Bruins and other officials to go to Barcelona and Amsterdam this […]
Santa Clara County
Lawsuit puts VTA sales tax increase in limbo
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Money from the Measure B half-cent VTA sales tax voters approved last fall has been embargoed until a lawsuit challenging the measure’s legality […]