MORE ON: public transportation

Californians rank 10th in the country for having the longest commute times, taking an average of 26.9 minutes to travel to work, recently released census data show. Workers in the state spent 10.4 minutes more getting to work than did workers in North Dakota, which reported the quickest... + read more

San Francisco police arrested Marcel Largaespada on April 30 after a gunpoint robbery at a Lombard Street business, but they couldn’t catch his alleged accomplice, Alan McCahill. McCahill gave officers the slip, investigators believed, by hopping on a Muni bus. He was caught days... + read more

A yellow school bus sits gutted, propped up on wooden blocks at a shop in Guatemala, more than a thousand miles from its former life. Black spray paint barely obscures the name of the school district it used to serve. It is one of several aging buses that have rolled in from across the United... + read more

As California gas prices creep toward $5 a gallon and researchers pronounce that just a modest global rise in temperature could melt the Greenland ice sheet, engineers and transportation designers are busy creating a fossil fuel-free future – or at least one in which fossil fuels are... + read more

Bay Area Rapid Transit officials said yesterday that they will put in a curbed ramp at the Lafayette BART station to enable wheelchairs to enter the new $2 million ramp leading from the south parking lot to the station. After California Watch reported that the new ramp failed to connect to the... + read more

For two years, the California High-Speed Rail Authority said it could build 520 miles of high-speed train tracks between San Francisco and Los Angeles for about $43 billion. But that figure – long derided as unrealistic by critics – went off the rails this month when the authority... + read more