The southern parking lots of Golden Gate Bridge will be closed on Saturday, August 26, 2017 and advising people to use alternative parking. The Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District announced therein closure because of upcoming First Amendment rally event at Crissy Field in San Francisco this coming weekend. The public safety effort along with CHP (California Highway Patrol) and NPS (National Park Services) will be patrolling the areas. Including local Police Officers units to ensure public safety within San Francisco Bay Area during the permitted local event.

The VTA (Valley Transportation Authority) and BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) partnership for Silicon Valley transit system's final stretch for the South Bay BART extension. The VTA and BART partnership agencies are entering into its final and complicated level of Phase-1 for the 10 miles extension project. The decision making officials were informed of therein project updates and ahead of time as scheduled for completion during June 2018. The extension project will be going through many testing elements to ensure safety for passengers before opening for full services.

The AC (Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District) agency is progressively moving forward with therein construction for BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) project. The AC Transit BRT improvement project has reached its milestone of 50% completion within two construction zones in the East Bay of San Francisco Bay Area. The BRT improvement project construction is $178 million and transforming neighborhoods with new traffic signals and storm drains. Including electrical infrastructure along with new street lighting as well as ADA (Americans Disability Act) compliant sidewalks and ramps.

The BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Police Department is hiring more officers to ensure passengers are safe on trains and local stations. The new BART Police Department academy graduates and experienced police officers will receive $10,000 as a hiring bonus as part of the streamlining process. The BART Police Chief is using therein bonus to encourage potential interest from diversity communities to apply, and become part of the new strategy to increase police presence.

The Port of San Francisco administration is opening for partnership proposals regarding Pier-70 historical shipyard. The legendary Pier-70 shipyard is known for assembling steel ships during World War II as well as the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) underwater transbay tunnel. The Port of San Francisco is circulating the RFP (Request For Proposals) process for a potential partnership agency to lease the historical repair shipyard. The Pier-70 shipyard needs drydock and other debris cleaning with repairing dredging areas, and Port of San Francisco will pay for some shipyard repairs.

The JetSuiteX is launching services between SJC (Mineta San Jose International Airport) and Burbank Hollywood Airport starting September 12, 2017. The JetSuiteX chartering flights will operate twice everyday with round-trips from Sunday to Friday. The trip tickets will cost $129 each way including two pieces of luggage with business class space along with complimentary refreshments. The new chartering services along with direct flight routing is catered for customers looking for speed traveling without waiting time.

The SFO (San Francisco International Airport) has new landing rules because of a landing close-call with Air Canada during last month. The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) is changing landing rules at SFO to no longer have air traffic controllers allow pilots to make visual landing during night hours. This means when an airport runway is shut down at night, pilots have to use the instrument landing system or satellite-based systems for landing the airplane at SFO airport.

Some people in San Francisco Bay Area are great people with good human intentions, unfortunately, some people like to vandalize bicycles. Another Ford GoBike bicycle was vandalized in Oakland and set on fire, and other bicycles were disfigured, slashed tires, covered with paint, and thrown into the lake within the Bay Area. The Ford GoBike project effort is to help people with alternative transportation, and protecting our natural environment from car emission fumes.

The transit train serving Sonoma and Marin counties called SMART (Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit) is rolling out for full services on Friday, August 25, 2017. The new North Bay transit train is administered and managed by the SMART District including planning, services implementation, maintenance, and evaluation. The new SMART transportation system is ready for operation thereafter final approval from FRA (Federal Railroad Administration). The SMART railway trains will provide public transportation for local North Bay residents in San Francisco Bay Area.

The SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) Board of Directors approved $21 billion for the muni Capital Plan of future improvement projects. The SFMTA Capital Plan budget identified approximately $71 million for elevators and escalators repair services within coverage areas in San Francisco. Because elevators are out frequently within certain service areas and making it reliable for commuting passengers especially on Van Ness station. Some commuting passengers have to look for alternative accessible way especially passengers using wheelchairs.