Transportation and housing with health and safety measures are part of the Plan Bay Area 2040 initiative and requesting public input during open house public meetings. The ongoing public meetings have been in place since last week in April 2015 within nine San Francisco Bay Area counties. The last public meeting will be Thursday, May 28, 2015 at Marin County Civic Center, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, California from 5 PM to 7 PM. These public meetings will provide people with updates and planning information for transportation in the future within San Francisco Bay Area.

The upcoming San Francisco 49ers home games will cost more for transit transportation to transport fans to Levi Stadium at San Francisco Bay Area. The Santa Clara County VTA (Valley Transportation Agency) has been assessing the costing impact for fans transit transportation, and VTA officials mentioned it would cost them more than $3 million a year for 30 events at Levi Stadium. The VTA officials are considering transit fee increases for 49er fans riding to Levi Stadium and approached City of Santa Clara, California for financial expense assistance.

The Star Princess cruise-ship docked in San Francisco at Pier-27 yesterday due to a norovirus outbreak making people sick onboard. The CDC (Center for Disease Control) personnel and medical officials started assessing passengers for norovirus screening symptoms. CDC personnel and medical officials met with the cruise-ship crew members and collected evaluation elements for assessing norovirus disease while docking in San Francisco. Including crew members cleaning the cruise-ship and sanitizing all appropriate areas and advised passengers to not touch anything and wash hands before eating.

The San Francisco International Airport (SFO) airplanes traffic within San Francisco Bay Area is becoming an issue within local peninsula cities. The City of Palo Alto residents are complaining about the noise of SFO airplanes flying over their homes and disrupting family sleeping patterns. Some local residents are saying airplanes are flying into SFO with lower altitudes and residents can actually see the airline logo from ground level.

Biking to work is another way of people commuting to and from work today throughout San Francisco Bay Area sharing ways to protect our natural environment and making it healthy for people. The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition with a number of sponsors organized the "Bike To Work Day" with energize stations for cyclists within nine San Francisco Bay Area counties. Cyclists are expecting to ride their personal bikes or a bike from bicycle stations regardless of potential rain in the bay area and participating numbers are expecting to increase.

The eastern span of San Francisco Bay Bridge continues with problematic issues and oversight committee approved funding for more research study. The Toll Bridge Oversight Committee approved $4 million on Monday to study for problematic issues on bridge towers questioning the safety of drivers on the bay bridge. The bridge tower failed an assessment test when salt was found on the bridge anchor rod pending damages and showing more corrosion problems. More people are questioning the safety of driving on the bay bridge and ongoing problematic findings and spending more tax payer monies.

Transportation necessities in San Francisco Bay Area is becoming more than ever including ways and means of support for our natural environment. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is floating a possible Caltrain redevelopment tunnel in San Francisco and it means more financial support. The mayor's goal is freeing real estate within Mission District for redevelopment linkage into the Muni-Caltrain station in Mission Bay area. The project plan would likely do without Caltrain's present location on Fourth and King Streets in San Francisco, California.

The American Lung Association released a State Of The Air 2015 annual report sharing air quality within San Francisco Bay Area showing cleanest and polluted areas nationwide. The report indicates a continual progressive effort within San Francisco Bay Area cleaning the air by reducing ozone and particles within metropolitan areas. The Solano County continues to improve in many ways and rating air quality levels dropped from 2.0 to 0.7 within 2011 to 2013, and lower transportation emission levels really helps with local areas in the bay area.

The reports indicate four Google self-driving cars were involved in accidents on California roadways since September after receiving testing permits from the state. Any collision accidents should be reported to state DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) and agency mentioned it's confidential accident information. Google and supplier company mention accidental incidents were minor and not at fault of any vehicular damages. Top priority for self-driving cars should be for public safety as well as sensors and reacting to potential operational accidents. accidents.

The new Caltrain cars purchased from MetroLink in Southern California will be in operation during next week for passengers because of increasing ridership. The 16 train cars were delivered recently to Caltrain station for repairs and refurbishing to ensure they are suitable for passengers. The demand for new train cars at Caltrain is essentially important for people to have enough seating capacity and storage for bicycles. Starting this coming Monday a newly refurbished train car will added to Caltrain within the Peninsula area of San Francisco Bay Area.