California High-Speed Rail Plan Facts And Figures
The high-speed rail business plan says trains will run between the greater Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay Area by 2029.
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The high-speed rail business plan says trains will run between the greater Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay Area by 2029.
Engineering work has finally begun on the first 30-mile segment of track here in Fresno, a city of a half-million people with high unemployment and a withering downtown core littered with abandoned factories and shuttered stores.
A San Francisco Bay Area commuter train returning from routine maintenance struck and killed two workers who were inspecting the tracks Saturday afternoon — an accident that comes amid a strike that has shut the Bay Area Rapid Transit system down to riders for the past few days.
From parking spots to "parklets" – an urban idea could start popping up here in Sacramento. And the idea is to sprinkle little patches of green across town.
CBS13 hopped a ride with Scott in Richmond just before 4:30 p.m. The ride was off to a rough start when it took 40 minutes to go three blocks from work in the city to the Bay Bridge.
A San Francisco woman has a refreshing idea to help the homeless: Portable showers on old city buses.
With a midnight strike deadline just hours away and public frustration mounting, negotiators for the Bay Area Rapid Transit system and its two unions resumed contract talks Sunday as nervous commuters scouted alternate ways of getting to work.
There's now a search for a couple who may have picked up the greyhound lost by Air Canada at San Francisco International Airport.
Contracts talks resumed Saturday afternoon between the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system and its two unions, a BART spokesman said.
The family who was opening their home to Larry the Italian greyhound is speaking out about what happened to the dog that was supposed to be living with them on Friday.
"I told my boss I have to leave," she said. "I can't stay and work when I know there's a dog running around this place, because there's like big trucks, airplanes, buses."
Fliers are spread out around San Francisco looking for any sign of where Larry could be as the search is now in its fifth day. The only leads so far unnerving, with a few people reporting seeing Larry near traffic along Highway 101.
Air Canada's response: "I think I would just ignore, it is local news doing a story on a lost dog. Their entire government is shut down and about to default and this is how the US media spends its time."
A man flashed a gun several times on a crowded commuter train in San Francisco, but passengers were so absorbed in their phones and tablets they didn't notice until he randomly shot a university student, investigators said.
The trial of a Northern California teenager charged with the brazen theft of celebrity chef Guy Fieri's Lamborghini sports car from a San Francisco dealership has started in a Marin County courtroom.
San Francisco is getting full hydroelectric power again from Yosemite National Park after the last of two power plants shuttered during the Rim Fire reopened.
The father of a Los Angeles Dodgers fan stabbed to death after a San Francisco Giants game last week asked Sunday for witnesses who may have captured the fight on mobile devices to come forward and help both families find closure.
Neighbors of one of the suspects, Michael Montgomery, were shaken and stunned after learning of the news on Thursday.
Just a month ago, the America's Cup "village" along San Francisco's waterfront had few visitors.
or the first time since Gov. Jerry Brown ordered a 60-day cooling off period, Bay Area Rapid Transit management and its unions were returning to the bargaining table Monday.
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We were moving by foot, over Sacramento's Tower Bridge. Driving over the crossing, or even the I Street Bridge was out of the question for Susan, who suffers from gephyrophobia—commonly known as "bridge phobia."
There will be no public celebration with tens of thousands of pedestrians and fireworks when the ribbon is cut on the new, $6.4 billion eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Monday.
Officials say there were no problems during the first hours of construction to put finishing touches on the new eastern portion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Commuters faced their first morning on Thursday without the workhouse San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, but there weren't major traffic snarls as day broke across the Bay Area.
