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Time/date: July 25, 2007 6:30-8:30 pm

Source: San Francisco Planning Department

1st public workshop of many to come on the Transit Center District Plan. This is focused on the southern portion of downtown San Francisco, with a particular focus on the vicinity of the Transbay Transit Center. Building on the recently adopted Transbay Redevelopment Plan as well as the 1985 Downtown Plan, this effort will examine the future of Downtown's new core. This workshop will introduce the planning effort and initial objectives and seek public input on the scope of analysis and issues the planning department should consider. location: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission St. between 3rd and 4th Streets San Francisco More information at transitcenter.sfplanning.org or contact Joshua Switzky at joshua.switzky@sfgov.org or call 415.575.6815

Learn about plans to electrify Caltrain for faster trains, more frequent service, and less pollution

Time/date:
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
6:30PM - 8:00PM

Come to the upcoming BayRail Alliance meeting to find out about plans to electrify Caltrain for faster trains, more frequent service, and lower pollution.

Location:
Poor House Bistro - 91 S. Autumn Street, San Jose (just two blocks from San Jose Diridon station)
San Jose

March 12, 2007: Caltrain receives award from Federal Transit Administration for increasing ridership by almost 23 percent between June 2004 and June 2005, with the introduction of “Baby Bullet” service. On August 1, 2005, the reinvented Caltrain schedule, which increased the number of weekday trains to 96 without increasing equipment or staff, along with modest fare increase, increased ridership almost 23 percent and farebox by nearly 50 percent.

Time/date: Deadline: 5 pm, Tuesday May 15

Source: Caltrain

Caltrain is soliciting applicants to fill vacancies on its Citizens
Advisory Committee. The CAC is comprised of nine volunteer members,
who serve in an advisory capacity to the board of directors,
providing input on the needs of current and potential rail customers.

Applicants must be residents of San Francisco, San Mateo or Santa
Clara counties, and applications are due by 5 p.m., Tuesday, May 15.
The CAC meets the third Wednesday of each month at 6 p.m. at
Caltrain's headquarters in San Carlos, just one block from the
San Carlos Caltrain Station. All meetings are open to the public.

Caltrain operates 96 commuter trains each weekday between San
Francisco and San Jose, with commute hour service to Gilroy, and
hourly weekend service between San Jose and San Francisco. Last
year Caltrain carried more than 10 million riders, and currently
it carries an average weekday ridership of nearly 35,000 trips.

Interested persons can download an application from the Caltrain
Web site, or contact the assistant board secretary at (650) 508-6223.

Time/date: beginning June 30, 2007

Source: Muni

Following the disasterous service quality that resulted from changes made on April 7 and many complaints, Muni is once again reconfiguring transit in the area, starting June 30, 2007.

For more information, see June 30, 2007 SF Muni Rider Alert

Rail:

• N-Judah service will travel to Caltrain
• J-Church will switch back at Embarcadero Station
• K- and T-lines will become interconnected:
  • K-Ingleside will become the T-Third Street inbound at West Portal to Sunnydale.
  • T-Third Street will become the K-Ingleside in the subway outbound at Embarcadero to Balboa Park (Geneva & San Jose).
• Castro Shuttles will be restored

Bus:

• 10-Townsend service will be restored on weekends

Previous announcement:
Starting April 7, 2007, the N-Judah Muni Metro line will no longer serve the Caltrain station. The N-Judah will now end at Embarcadero station and wil be replaced by the new T-Third line, and also the J-Church line during peak commute hours only (approximately 6-9 am and 4-7 pm). The two lines board at different platforms: board the new T-Third line platform on Fourth Street after crossing King Street (where the T-Third will proceed to make a 90 degree turn onto King Street); and the J-Church line will board on King Street where the N-Judah used to stop.

Muni Line 15 bus is also discontinued. Now patrons have to take the T-Third or J-Church light rail. Line 10 continues to be an option to get to downtown, but will now travels between Market and Mission via 2nd Street instead of 1st Street.

April 2007 SF Muni rider alert

Many people who don't know much about trains think BART is state-of-the-art. It's not.

Former BART director Sherman Lewis, who lives in Hayward, agrees. See Mr. Lewis' opinion piece that was published in the Mountain View Voice.

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