The Tesla automotive company is restructuring and refreshing its national and international retail stores. The Silicon Valley Business Journal reports Tesla is emphasizing on its energy products, since the merging acquisition of Solar City for $2 billion last week. This will workout well with the holiday season for people to shop, including solar panels and Powerwall-2 residential battery package. Tesla Motors have 99 stores in United States nationwide with international store locations in Mexico, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

The Apple company officials met with McLaren Automotive executives without any propositions during meeting discussions. Other reports during September mentioned Apple was touring and scoping some auto technology companies for possible investments in self-driving cars. McLaren Automotive company started producing sports cars during 2011 at approximately $150,000 for each car with fewer than 2,000 cars per year. McLaren legendary heritage auto racing Formula-1 was founded in 1963, and competing with other car racing entities nationwide and international.

We recently posted about many holiday travelers going through San Francisco International Airport (SFO), and San Jose International Airport (SJC) is also showing the same increasing level of holiday travelers. The SJC airport in San Francisco Bay Area is expecting 15% increase of holiday traveling passengers, including additional airline flights from Thanksgiving 2015 last year. SJC airport officials are encouraging traveling passengers to print their boarding passes ahead of time, and reconfirm their flights before checking in at airport security for departing flights.

Recently we posted about California HSR (High Speed Rail) Authority filing for an exemption to purchase train parts from international companies. However, HSR administration has withdrawn its exemption attempt and decided to purchase within American made nationwide products aligned with the Federal Buy America Act provisions. The HSR Authority will proceed with train-set manufacturing process and compliance with the federal act requirements.

The latest report shows decreasing riders on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) transportation system in San Francisco Bay Area. It shows declining ridership during Summer time at 1/2 percent at approximately 2100 commuting riders a day. The weekends really have dropped ridership and showing 4.3% on Saturdays and 6% on Sundays with more available seats for passengers.

The progressively high speed train system administration in California has filed an exemption to purchase parts from international companies. The California HSR (High Speed Rail) Authority has filed procedural paperwork with FRA (Federal Railroad Administration) for the exemption process from the Buy American Act. The HSR agency 2016 business plan estimates the costing amount for trains would be approximately $3.4 billion and opening doors for international trade groups.

The holiday season is here and friends, families and children are planning holiday trips across the globe - national and international. The SFO (San Francisco International Airport) officials shared various tips and amenities during holiday traveling, to ease the process and making it easier for traveling passengers. SFO officials shared 5.7% more traveling passengers this year increase from last year, and offering ways and means of support for passengers during holiday season.

The City of San Jose and Sharks hockey team parent agency have reached a proposed lawsuit settlement on environmental issues of concern. The Sharks Sports and Entertainment filed a lawsuit challenging the City of San Jose because of a development project within the Diridon regional area. The development project impacts public parking for people when attending Sharks home hockey games and/or other events at SAP Center in San Jose. Approximately 800 public parking spaces will be taken away from people and Sharks hockey fans in San Francisco Bay Area.

Some airlines are increasing their flights within San Francisco Bay Area airports as the holiday season is near. Southwest Airlines launched its new flying routes out of San Jose International Airport (SJC) this week including transpacific routes. The flights have increased within national airports at Baltimore/Washington International (BWI) and Salt Lake City airports. United Airlines is increasing their routing flights capacity from San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand.

The election results for public transportation projects received positive supportive outcomes from San Francisco Bay Area voters yesterday. The BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Measure RR successfully passed yesterday with 70.86% for BART improvement projects for working class people. The people approved $3.5 billion bond measure funding for BART services within San Francisco Bay Area to be reliable with safe and healthy services. The 44 year old BART system needs improvement projects for dependable services serving Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco counties.