The holiday season is here starting with Thanksgiving and local transit offices will be closed including adjustments with transit services. The local transit agencies are adjusting their schedules to transport passengers accordingly during therein Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Because of the impact regarding holidays within the regular service days during weekly schedules. The ongoing transit improvement projects can also limit and/or impacting services for other transit agencies during the holidays.

The weekend for Thanksgiving Day is coming quickly during this week along with traffic on highways and roadways within San Francisco Bay Area. Including air travelers at airports considering rain in the forecast during a Thanksgiving holiday weekend. The AAA (American Automobile Association) is encouraging people to give more flexible time while driving on the road and/or flying at airports. They advice of best days to travel will be on Thanksgiving Day, Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving Day - who wants to travel thereafter Thanksgiving?

The holiday season is here and Caltrain will operate services based on revised holiday schedules for Thanksgiving weekend. The Caltrain will operate on a holiday schedule for Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, November 22, 2018 with a modified schedule on Friday, November 23, 2018. The Caltrain administration is preparing for the Holiday Train on Saturday, December 1, 2018 and Sunday, December 2, 2018. It's a community partnership by Caltrain and Silicon Valley Community Foundation for the holiday season since 2001 - welcoming families and children!

The AC (Alameda-Contra Costa) Transit District BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) project is coming along as schedule for East Bay commuters. The BRT project will hopefully open for services during the later part of 2019 when construction is done and transit prepares for passengers. Including completion of project demolition, excavation, installation, paving, traffic signals, and loading/unloading platforms. The AC transit contracting agencies have been working on schedule associated with the BRT project construction.

The transit agencies within San Francisco Bay Area offering free transit rides for passengers today because of unhealthy outdoors smoky air. It's encouraging passengers to take free transit rides and stay safely inside transit buses and railway trains. Because the wildfire in Northern California has been creating hazy smoke and unhealthy air for local communities. The air in San Francisco and local Bay Area regional communities have reached unhealthy breathing air levels.

The BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) board approved a Ford GoBike station near 24th Street in San Francisco and Motivate will run it. The bike station was opposed by some community residents and BART board supported a compromise by BART administrators. It's a temporary pilot project until the mission library is renovated, and providing more time for Ford GoBike staffing to do more community outreach. The bicyclist advocacy representatives supports therein local bike station and received community support for the convenient effort.

The SFO (San Francisco International Airport) is delaying flights because of wildfire smoke within San Francisco Bay Area. The SFO flights are delayed with an average of 30-45 minutes because of therein smoke from Butte County wildfire camps in Northern California. The fire smoke is creating low and reduced visibility for airline pilots along with hazy clouds of smoke. The local Bay Area residents are encouraged to stay inside their homes because of therein smoke that can create unhealthy human conditions.

Yes, the Holiday Season is here and San Francisco Bay Area transit agencies are offering holiday festivities for local families and children! The VTA (Valley Transportation Authority) is offering free rides for passengers from Friday, November 23, 2018 to Sunday, December 30, 2018 onboard the Holly Trolley. The passengers can take rides in therein legendary Holly Trolleys to events downtown San Jose and enjoy holiday music and decorations.

The Chase Center in San Francisco will become the new home of NBA Champions Golden State Warriors and transit projects are under construction for traffic improvement. Including UCSF Mission Bay transit platforms replacement projects to make it easier and convenient for commuting passengers. The SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) will close therein transit platform for project construction during the replacement - close from Monday, November 12, 2018 to sometime in April 2019.

The VTA (Valley Transportation Authority) board approved improvement transportation projects for cities of Santa Clara and Mountain View. The VTA MIP (Multimodal Improvement Plan) collaboration action plans with local cities will demonstrate improvement for transit projects to help with local traffic congestion. The VTA administration will work closely with therein cities to manage the MIP projects for efficiency within Santa Clara County. The MIP improvement project goal is to improve therein system traffic level of services aligned with community goals of local traffic.