The San Francisco Controller's Office released are report last month with therein muni transportation findings. The report was compared with 16 other cities, and showing the average 8.1 miles per hour for muni buses. The muni railway trolley buses speed at 6.3 miles per hour, and 10.8 miles per hour for light rail trains. The average muni coach buses bench-marking rank around 8 miles per hour during 2014.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is not sure about releasing funding to assist HSR (High Speed Rail) project in downtown. The FTA (Federal Transit Administration) is putting Caltrain electrification project funding on hold, and therein electrifying project can help bring trains to downtown San Francisco. The Transbay Transit Center in downtown is planning terminals for HSR train systems, and Caltrain electrification project can be helpful. The San Francisco Transportation Authority is scheduled to allocate approximately $6.7 million local sales tax to assist with HSR project.

The AC Transit agency is zeroing-in to operate their buses using zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell electric systems to save our natural environment. Therein approach is because of CCI (California Climate Investments) funding grant received by AC Transit through the statewide program. Their goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and local tailpipe emissions, to improve the environment and healthy issues for mostly disadvantaged communities. The CTE (Center for Transportation and Environment) will provide oversight review and management elements for the project.

The Palo Alto city council is advocating for Caltrain federal funding and requesting Stanford University administrators to join them in Washington D.C. The $647 million federal grant for Caltrain transit agency is on hold by FTA (Federal Transit Administration) and Palo Alto council members are planning a lobbying team. The city council members shared their remarks during the council meeting last night, and Stanford University was sharing updating information on use permits.

The nationwide governors are having a conference in Washington D.C. and California Governor Brown sent a letter to President Trump regarding transportation infrastructure projects. The letter requests 10 infrastructure improvement projects in San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the State of California. Including San Jose to San Joaquin Valley railway stretch for HSR (High Speed Rail) and traffic lanes along Highway-101 within San Mateo County. The traffic lanes along Highway-101 will help relief traffic congestion and will be managed to direct traffic accordingly.

The Caltrain transit agency has released the engineering contractor scheduled to work on an improvement project. The PTG (Parsons Transportation Group) contractor was hired to install PTC (Positive Train Control) systems on Caltrain transit cars, and is fired because of further project delays since 2015. The Caltrain PTC safety systems were supposed to be installed and operating in 2015, and delayed to 2016 and rescheduled to 2017 for completion. The Caltrain administrators are hoping to have the improvement project completed by December 31, 2018 deadline.

The latest bad weather conditions added more damage to San Francisco Bay Area local roads and highways, and costing more money for repairs. Some of local Bay Area roads remain closed until repair crews cleanup mudslides and fallen rocks on roadways, and some will need repairs on the roadway surface potholes. The Caltrans reporting damages will cost approximately $600 million for repairs because of bad weather conditions. The bad Winter stormy weather condition is doubling the state's budget for emergency and roadway repairs.

The vehicular traffic congestion continues to get worst in San Francisco Bay Area, and traffic in San Francisco is ranked at #2 as worst nationwide. The Traffic Index research study identifies traffic congestion at southern Bay Area in San Jose and Silicon Valley at #5 as worst traffic nationwide. The working class people commuting on local freeways and roadways everyday spent 144 hours in 2016, and showing increase from 24 minutes in 2015 to 38 minutes in 2016. The commuting hours in the morning and evenings get even worst in the eastern Bay Area and throughout San Francisco Bay Area.

The high technological self-driving companies in San Francisco Bay Area is having a legal battle because of technology allegations. The Waymo legal associates filed a lawsuit yesterday in San Francisco federal courts against Uber ride-sharing company. The allegation is because a former top manager working for Google in the past, Anthony Levandowski, left and found a startup called Otto. The Otto company is building self-driving big rig trucks and Uber bought Otto for $680 million last year.

The federal grant for Caltrain's electrification project has been delayed by FTA (Federal Transit Administration). The delayed FTA funding will endanger the full $1.98 billion project for Silicon Valley and most importantly will delay the project. The $647 million federal grant was earmarked for Caltrain to start the railway electrification project and start hiring contracting workers. The project work is schedule to start on March 1, 2017 as the deadline including electric elements from the manufacturing company.