The California State University Maritime Academy in joint partnership with Chevron Refinery has opened its safety training center facility last week in City of Richmond, California. Lately the State of California has been overwhelm with fire fighting activities in local forest areas, residential and commercial buildings, transportation vehicles and transit, including personal vehicles. The fire fighters and other first responding people have been busy trying to keep people safe from fire within local areas in California.

The national Highway Trust Fund is looming to end for transportation in San Francisco Bay Area, and bay area elected officials with local leaders are gearing for advocacy efforts. The Federal Transportation fund is expiring on May 31, 2015 exhausting financial support for local San Francisco Bay Area roadways and freeways. This past Thursday, April 9, 2015 was National Infrastructure Day for transportation and local leaders will contact their congressional and senate representatives for support.

Associated reports indicate people trespassing and crossing over security systems during the past decade at major national airports is tremendously alarming. SFO (San Francisco International Airport) has the highest breaching number of 37 and San Jose International Airport has 18, considering the recent stow-away teen passenger that illegally traveled on a flight from San Jose to Hawaii.

Traffic congestion in San Francisco Bay Area is getting worse and people are encouraged to ride public transportation including Caltrain along the Peninsula from San Jose. However, negative activities happening on public transportation can and will discourage people from riding public transportation. The southbound Caltrain 366 was stopped at the Hillsdale station to let two passengers off due to some negative argument activities on the train around 5:05 PM.

Traveling with responsible and accessible transportation is a necessity for people in San Francisco Bay Area especially for working class people. Using a bicycle can be that responsible means of transportation for people and it can be healthy for people during their way to work everyday. The Bike Share program announced last week an expansion bike project in the east-bay of San Francisco Bay Area within Oakland, Berkeley, and Emeryville.

Latest transportation reports indicate San Francisco Bay Area roadways and freeways need retrofitting work for improvement saving people from any major natural disasters. Recently Caltrain completed improvement projects on Highway 280 in San Francisco and other roadway projects are currently happening as part of the plan. Including structural improvement work on San Mateo Bridge Highway 92 to replace expansion joints and electrical cable system. Caltrain is planning to close the bridge on some weekends for improvement project work starting sometime in May for 2 or 3 weekends.

A Bike Share program was launched August 2013 encouraging people to ride a bicycle to work and/or school to help save our environment and making it healthy for people. MTC (Metropolitan Transportation Commission) has been support of such effort and contributed financial support, and Bay Area Bicycle Coalition advocated for bike lanes in San Francisco and some geographical areas within San Francisco Bay Area.

The San Francisco MTA (Municipal Transportation Agency) has been criticized for lack of muni buses on timely scheduling for passengers. The SFMTA muni bus system will start its new "Muni Forward" upgrading system on April 25, 2015 with new service line displaying features as well as renaming other bus lines. This upgrading effort is to make it more responsive for passengers and avoiding crowded buses within the city muni bus line system. The muni routing map will be completely redesigned including rapid bus line networking system display in various colors.

The tracks for BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) in San Francisco Bay Area started improvement repairs yesterday and closed the tracks between Fruitvale and Coliseum stations. The BART track repairs will operate on Saturdays at 7 PM throughout all day on Sundays for some weekends, and repairs should be completed sometime in August 2015 for full train system operation. Some passengers understand and accept improvement changes for the BART tracks and some passengers feel the traveling hardship for them because of scheduling changes.

The Caltrain expansion capacity for passengers have been moving forward to purchase and refurbish railway trains because of increasing number of passengers onboard. Caltrain spent $5.6 million to purchase 16 railway train cars from Southern California at Metrolink, and hopefully will appropriately handle the increase ridership passengers onboard. The new purchased train cars will provide an extra train car to the current Caltrain cars with more seating capacity for passengers. The longer train cars will provide Caltrain with enough passenger capacity for at least 20% capacity increase.