Budget for Electrification of Caltrain Hits $2.44B
Originally expected to cost $1.5 billion and be operational in 2019, the projected budget for electrifying Caltrain, which had already ticked up to $2.3 billion earlier this year, has just…
Setting the Stage for Caltrain’s Realignment and SNACS in SF
With the City having selected the Pennsylvania Avenue Alignment as the path by which trains should eventually reach San Francisco’s new Salesforce Transit Center, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority…
Master Schedule for Modernization of Caltrain Officially Slips
As we first reported last year, while the projected Revenue Service Date (RSD) for Caltrain’s electrification and modernization project hadn’t been moved from December of 2021, the projected timeline to…
Path for Trains to Reach SF’s New Transit Center Has Been Picked
As we expected and first foreshadowed earlier this year, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority has officially adopted the Pennsylvania Avenue Alignment as the preferred path by which trains should…
Schedule for Modernization of Caltrain (Unofficially) Slips
As we first reported last year, the risk-adjusted timeline for the completion of Caltrain’s electrification and modernization project had slipped from the second to last day of 2021 to April…
Results of SF’s Railyard, Tracks and I-280 Redevelopment Study
While the full results of San Francisco’s Railyard Alternatives and I-280 Boulevard Feasibility Study, which is now known as Planning’s five-point Rail Alignment and Benefits (RAB) Study, are slated to…
Tunneling to the Transbay: Most Likely Approach and Timing
While there are technically three possible routes by which trains are slated to eventually reach San Francisco’s new Salesforce/Transbay Transit Center, in terms of the most probable path, there are…
Projected Timing for Electrification of Caltrain Pushed Back to 2022
While the Caltrain electrification project officially broke ground this past July, at which point the electrified service was expected to be up and running by the second to last day…
Electrifying Caltrain News: Project Underway
The Caltrain electrification project officially broke ground in Millbrae this morning. Originally expected to cost $1.5 billion and be operational in 2019, the budget to electrify Caltrain has been upwardly…
Could Potrero and Dogpatch Lose Their Coveted Caltrain Stop?
With the refined options for connecting Caltrain (and High Speed Rail) to San Francisco’s new Transbay Transit Center, redeveloping the 20-acre Caltrain Depot at 4th and King Streets and tearing…