The Dumbarton Bridge is the southernmost of the highway bridges across San Francisco Bay in California. Carrying over 70,000 vehicles and about 118 pedestrian and bicycle crossings daily,it is the shortest bridge across San Francisco Bay at 1.63 miles. Its eastern end is in Fremont,near Newark in the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge,and its western end is in Menlo Park. Bridging State Route 84 across the bay,it has three lanes each way and a separated bike/pedestrian lane along its south side. Like the San Mateo Bridge to the north,power lines parallel the bridge.
The San Francisco Municipal Railway( MEW-nee;SF Muni or Muni),is the public transit system for the City and County of San Francisco. It operates a system of bus routes,the Muni Metro light rail system,three historic cable car lines,and two historic streetcar lines. Previously an independent agency,the San Francisco Municipal Railway merged with two other agencies in 1999 to become the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA). In 2018,Muni served 46.7 square miles (121 km2) with an operating budget of about $1.2 billion. Muni is the seventh-highest-ridership transit system in the United States,with 114,721,200 rides in 2022,and the second-highest in California after the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Caltrain is a California commuter rail line serving the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley. The southern terminus is in San Jose at Tamien station with weekday rush hour service running as far as Gilroy. The northern terminus of the line is in San Francisco at 4th and King Streets. Caltrain has 28 regular stops,one limited-service weekday-only stop,one weekend-only stop (Broadway),and one football-only stop (Stanford). While average weekday ridership in 2019 exceeded 63,000,impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been significant:in August 2022,Caltrain had an average weekday ridership of 18,600 passengers.
The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) is a regional planning agency incorporating various local governments in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. It encompasses nine counties surrounding the San Francisco Bay. Those counties are Alameda,Contra Costa,Marin,Napa,San Francisco,San Mateo,Santa Clara,Solano,and Sonoma. It has the ability to establish housing and transportation goals for cities to minimize urban sprawl by requiring that housing be zoned for near new workplace construction. It deals with land use,housing,environmental quality,and economic development. Non-profit organizations as well as governmental organizations can be members. All nine counties and 101 cities within the Bay Area are voluntary members of ABAG.
The N Judah is a hybrid light rail/streetcar line of the Muni Metro system in San Francisco,California. The line is named after Judah Street that it runs along for much of its length,named after railroad engineer Theodore Judah. It links downtown San Francisco to the Cole Valley and Sunset neighborhoods. The line provides rail access to Golden Gate Park. It is the busiest line in the Muni Metro system,serving an average of 41,439 weekday passengers in 2013. It was one of San Francisco's streetcar lines,beginning operation in 1928,and was partially converted to modern light-rail operation with the opening of the Muni Metro system in 1980. While many streetcar lines were converted to bus lines after World War II,the N Judah remained a streetcar line due to its use of the Sunset Tunnel.
The Third Street Light Rail Project was the construction project that expanded the Muni Metro system in San Francisco,California,linking downtown San Francisco to the historically underserved southeastern neighborhoods of Bayview-Hunters Point and Visitacion Valley along the eastern side of the city. Construction was finished in late 2006,non-revenue weekend service began on January 13,2007,and full service began on April 7,2007. The new service,as the T Third Street Metro line,replaced the 15 Third bus line,which ran south from the Caltrain Depot at 4th and King streets,along Third Street and Bayshore Boulevard to the southeastern neighborhoods.
The Central Subway is a Muni Metro light rail tunnel in San Francisco,California,United States. It runs between Chinatown station in Chinatown and a portal in South of Market (SoMa),with intermediate stops at Union Square/Market Street station in Union Square and Yerba Buena/Moscone station in SoMa. A surface portion runs through SoMa to connect to the previously existing T Third Street line at 4th and King station.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is an agency created by consolidation of the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni),the Department of Parking and Traffic (DPT),and the Taxicab Commission. The agency oversees public transport,taxis,bicycle infrastructure,pedestrian infrastructure,and paratransit for the City and County of San Francisco.
The Clipper card is a reloadable contactless smart card used for automated fare collection in the San Francisco Bay Area. First introduced as TransLink in 2002 by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) as a pilot program,it was rebranded in its current form on June 16,2010. Like other transit smart cards such as the Oyster card,the Clipper card is a credit card-sized stored-value card capable of holding both cash value and transit passes for the participating transit agencies. In addition to the traditional plastic card,Clipper is available as a virtual card in Google Wallet and Apple Wallet. Clipper is accepted by nearly all public transit services in the Bay Area,including but not limited to Muni,BART,Caltrain,AC Transit,SamTrans,Golden Gate Transit,Golden Gate Ferry,San Francisco Bay Ferry,and VTA.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is the government agency responsible for regional transportation planning and financing in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was created in 1970 by the State of California,with support from the Bay Area Council,to coordinate transportation services in the Bay Area's nine counties:Alameda,Contra Costa,Marin,Napa,San Francisco,San Mateo,Santa Clara,Solano,and Sonoma. The MTC is fourth most populous metropolitan planning organization in the United States.
Ken Yeager is an American politician. He served on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors,representing District 4. First elected to the board in 2006,he represented the cities of Campbell and Santa Clara,as well as west San Jose and the Burbank and Cambrian neighborhoods. Previously,Yeager served on the San Jose City Council from 2000 to 2006. Before that,he served two terms on the San Jose/Evergreen Community College Board. He was a candidate for the 23rd district seat in the California State Assembly in 1996,coming in second.
The E Embarcadero is a historic streetcar line that is the San Francisco Municipal Railway's second heritage streetcar line in San Francisco,California. Trial service first ran during the Sunday Streets events on The Embarcadero in 2008. The line initially ran on weekends only,but expanded to weeklong service in late April 2016.
The government of the City and County of San Francisco utilizes the "strong mayor" form of mayoral/council government,composed of the Mayor,Board of Supervisors,several elected officers,and numerous other entities. It is the only consolidated city-county in California,and one of only thirteen charter counties of California. The fiscal year 2019–20 city and county budget was approximately $12.3 billion.
San Francisco 4th and King Street station,or Caltrain Depot is a train station in the SoMa district of San Francisco,California. It is presently the northern terminus of the Caltrain commuter rail line serving the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley. It is also the eastern terminus of the N Judah and E Embarcadero,as well as a stop along the T Third Street of the Muni network. The station is additionally the projected terminus for the first phase of the California High-Speed Rail project and a station once Phase 2 is completed.
The San Francisco Bicycle Plan is the current guiding document for near-term bicycle transportation improvements in San Francisco,and was adopted unanimously by the Board of Supervisors on August 11,2009. The overall goal of the plan is to "increase safe bicycle use" over an expected implementation timeline of 5 years. The plan recommends 60 near-term improvements to the bicycle route network,52 of which are the addition of bicycle lanes to 34 miles of city streets to the already existing 45 miles of city streets with bicycle lanes.
London Nicole Breed is an American politician who is the 45th and current mayor of the City and County of San Francisco. She was supervisor for District 5 and was president of the Board of Supervisors from 2015 to 2018.
The Dumbarton Rail Corridor is a proposed transbay passenger rail line which would reuse the right-of-way that was initially constructed from 1907–1910 as the Dumbarton Cut-off. The Dumbarton Cut-off includes the first structure to span San Francisco Bay,the 1910 Dumbarton Rail Bridge,although the vintage Cut-off bridges would likely be replaced prior to activating new passenger service. Dumbarton Rail Corridor would provide service between Union City in the East Bay and Menlo Park on the Peninsula,with train service continuing to both San Francisco and San Joséalong the existing Caltrain tracks. It has been in the planning stages since 1988,and would be the first above-ground transbay rail line since Key System electric trains stopped running on the lower deck of the Bay Bridge in 1958,and the first new transbay crossing of any kind since the completion of the Transbay Tube in 1974.
The Caltrain Express (CTX) project was implemented from 2002 to 2004 and led to the establishment of the Baby Bullet express service,which shortened the transit time between San Francisco and San Jose,and certain stations in between. New locomotives and rolling stock were purchased for dedicated express service,bypassing most stations;quad-track overtake sections were added in two locations along the Peninsula Corridor right-of-way to allow express trains to pass slower local trains that were making all stops;tracks were also upgraded with continuous-welded rail;a centralized traffic control system was added;and crossovers were added every few miles to allow single-tracking trains around disabled trains. Congresswoman Jackie Speier,then serving as a California State Senator,is credited with securing the funding for CTX and one of the new locomotives acquired for the project is named for her as a result. During commute hours,the Baby Bullet is up to 20% faster than driving south from San Francisco to San Jose.
The Caltrain Modernization Program (CalMod),sometimes referred to as the Caltrain Electrification Project,is a $2.44 billion project that will add a positive train control (PTC) system and electrify the main line of the U.S. commuter railroad Caltrain,which serves cities in the San Francisco Peninsula and Silicon Valley,as well as transition from its current diesel-electric locomotive powered trains to electric multiple units (EMU). According to Caltrain,electrification of the tracks will allow it to improve service times via faster acceleration and shorter headways,reduce air pollution and noise,and facilitate a future railway tunnel into downtown San Francisco's Salesforce Transit Center,as diesel trains cannot serve underground stations.
Bay Area Bike to Work Day is an annual Bike-to-Work Day event held in the San Francisco Bay Area encouraging and promoting bicycle commuting. The event is an initiative of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission,and supported by local partners including the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition,Bike East Bay,Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition,Marin County Bicycle Coalition,Napa County Bicycle Coalition,and Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition. Up through 2019,the Bay Area celebration was a week earlier than the national US Bike to Work Day. After limited events in 2020-2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic,the date for 2022 onward was changed to the third Friday of May,to match the nation-wide practice.
