September 1, 20111 Comment on Google’s green transpo cred
Google’s Transportation Operations Manager, Brendon Harrington, says about 40% of Googleplex employees in Mountain View, CA get to work via modes other than driving in this video in which he brags about Google’s alternative transportation programs.
August 4, 20114 Comments on Open discussion: Bicycle access on trains
I wrote a post on my new blog, Grid Chicago, about bicycle access on transit in Chicagoland. It’s that metropolitan area with Chicago, Illinois, as a hub and reaches to a small part of southeast Wisconsin and northwest Indiana. We’ve got Metra trains (like Caltrain), and Chicago Transit Authority trains (like BART and Muni underground lines).
There are definitely ways to improve getting bikes on trains over here, and I opened up the discussion to readers to suggest improvements. I’m going to record everyone’s comments into a database so that when it comes time to push the transit agencies to make changes, we’ll know where to start.
June 8, 2011Leave a Comment
June 2, 20117 Comments on Caltrain contingency plan
June 2, 2011Leave a Comment
Yesterday, Caltrain announced they have completed conversion of additional ‘gallery’ cars into bike cars. Every Caltrain train set now runs with two bike cars.
May 26, 2011Leave a Comment
This locomotive is really hard to miss. Seen this morning pulling into San Jose Diridon Station.