Caltrain Report Confirms Ballooning Budget And Project Delays
As we first reported last month: Originally expected to cost $1.5 billion and be operational in 2019, the budget to electrify Caltrain and install a new signaling system has be…
Caltrain Modernization Budget Balloons, Rollout Pushed Back
Originally expected to cost $1.5 billion and be operational in 2019, the budget to electrify Caltrain and install a new signaling system has be revised upward by at least $200…
$400M More And 4-Year Delay For Transbay Rail Extension
With the budget to build San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Center having already increased by $300 million to $1.9 billion, the additional $2.6 billion budgeted to extend the train tracks from…
Developers Will Pay Transbay District Tax, But With Lower NPV
The trio of developers leading the charge against the 0.55 percent tax they had agreed in principle to pay the City in exchange for an already adopted up-zoning of their…
SF Railyard Redevelopment And I-280 Terminus Update/Timing
The contract to study the feasibility and alternatives for redeveloping San Francisco’s 20-acre Caltrain Depot at 4th and King Streets, connecting rail to the Transbay Center (and possibly the East…
Tracking Caltrain’s Makeover And Ridership
With a goal of having Caltrain electrified and redesigned train cars in service by 2019, a request for qualified contractors to express their interest in the project will be issued…
San Francisco’s Caltrain Railyard Redevelopment Update And Post 2019 Plans
An update on the potential redevelopment of San Francisco’s Fourth and King Street Railyard and station, the current terminus for Caltrain in the city, was presented to Caltrain’s Board of…
Transbay Center Project Running $300 Million Over Budget
The projected cost of construction for the first phase of San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Center has risen from $1.6 billion to $1.9 billion. In order to cover the $300 million…
Electrifying Mission Bay And Transbay Transit Center News
As we wrote and quoted back in 2008: While Proposition 1A passed last week giving San Francisco hope of realizing a high-speed rail line, the hope that rail lines will…
More Evidence Of A High Speed Snub For The Transbay Transit Center
Last November Judge Quentin Kopp, chairman of the High Speed Rail Authority, spoke out against extending California’s proposed high speed rail line beyond the current Caltrain station at Fourth and…