The recently approved state tax package legislation will allocate funding for transportation projects and San Mateo County will get $25 million annually. The recently approved SB1 (Senate Bill-1) legislation will start in January 1, 2018 to increase gas taxes and vehicle registration fees to raise anticipated $52 billion for 10 years. The MTC (Metropolitan Transportation Commission) is starting to allocate funding and San Francisco Bay Area will get monies for transit improvement projects.

The VTA (Valley Transportation Authority) agency have collected community input regarding transit services redesign. The VTA redesign service plan is catering more services for high-ridership areas and less services for low-ridership areas. These potential services plan will make it more useful and more viable for many travelers, and based on comments from community people. The VTA administration had community meetings in January and February regarding the Transit Services Plan for efficient services.

The Lucid Motors is seeking funding partnership and challenging Tesla Motors to become the greatest in autonomous vehicular markets. The Lucid Motors company is located in San Francisco Bay Area in Menlo Park, California, and successfully raised $131 Million. The company is planning to develop an electric car factory in Arizona within 3 phases reaching $700 million funding investment. Some of Lucid Motors executive staffing and engineers are former employees of Tesla, and expecting to employ 2,000 workers in Arizona manufacturing location.

The downtown developments in San Francisco is creating more traffic congestion and making it worse based on new data findings. The SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) worked closely with a research agency to develop traffic statistical data information. The booming high-rising building developments in The City comes with a cost of drivers sitting in traffic for longer time and cars moving in slow motion. The analysis of traffic arteries within construction areas showing more construction slowed traffic down for cars driving at 9 miles per hour.

The San Francisco Bay Area Tesla Motors company tops General Motors as highest market value and becomes the most valuable automaker nationwide. The Bloomberg published Tesla climbed 3.3% during the beginning of the week and capitalizing to $50.9 billion, and ended value at approximately $64 million over General Motors. It shows the extent of investors sharing their belief into Tesla's vision on electric cars ruling the road in the future. The Tesla company has been treated like an element of a technology stocking market and investors are buying into its ability.

The SamTrans transit services serving San Mateo County is planning public meetings to hear from people regarding transit services in Coastside and Half Moon Bay. The SamTrans staffing will introduce a Coastside Transit Study project regarding district-wide transportation planning efforts. Including the future of SamTrans transit services with a vision and ideas of providing improvement services. The first community meeting is scheduled for April 18, 2017 from 6 PM to 8 PM at Brews and Views in Half Moon Bay.

The SFO (San Francisco International Airport) officials released a statement to relief people's perceptive anxiety regarding airport safety systems. It indicates the License Plate Reader system is for tracking commercial vehicles entering the facility only and not personal vehicles. The cameras usage is expanded from last year to track commercial ground transportation to calculate airport usage fees. The Airport Commission approved to share data information with local law enforcement agencies only for safety protection and usage fees.

The SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) muni improvement project along Van Ness Avenue started yesterday. The project construction forecast will be from Sunday, April 9, 2017 to Friday, April 21, 2017 and scheduling is subject to change because of bad forecasting weather conditions. The construction crews will start removing the Overhead Contact System powering the muni buses from Market to Sutter streets. The local travelers within therein construction areas are advised to take alternative routes to avoid traffic problems.

The VTA (Valley Transportation Authority) Express Lanes Program is making progressive relief for traffic congestion in Silicon Valley. The VTA Express Lanes Program has been operating since March 2012, and more express lanes will be implemented within Santa Clara County. The five year program has been showing success for drivers time savings at 30% along highway State Route 237 (SR237) between North First Street in San Jose and Highway 880. The drivers without passengers can use express lanes and pay a fee while other carpool vehicular drivers can use it for free.

The AC Transit (Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District) has operated therein Flex Services pilot project for two weeks and showing excitement. The one-year pilot services project started Monday, March 27, 2017 and it's a dynamic reservation based transit services project. The Flex Services project is an alternative transportation for local residential passengers to eliminate waiting time for regular AC Transit buses. It operates during daytime from 6 AM to 8 PM Monday to Friday excluding holidays and designed for smaller 12 passengers seating shuttles.