Public hearings for AC transit services improvement have been in place from last month throughout the month of March 2015. After AC Transit hearings from the public experience and feedback on transit services, transit services will make changes for improvement starting Sunday, March 15, 2015. The changes in transit services is to make it accessible for people during weekend activities, either shopping, going to the park, movies, and other places. The transit line 72R will operate on Saturdays and Sundays as well as weekdays to help people traveling from Richmond to Oakland.

The roads in San Jose needs necessary repairs due to a recent audit report because of many potholes, and damaging people's cars in Silicon Valley especially working class people during commuting hours. An independent audit report indicates that during past few years 38% of local roads in San Jose will be marked poorly for drivers to use. The roadway potholes and cracks need repair attention quickly to avoid more tax payer monies going to waste and not using it appropriately as a preventative approach.

Menlo Park Councilman Ray Mueller and the city mayor held a community meeting discussion yesterday evening regarding the death of a recent driver on Caltrans railway tracks in the City of Menlo Park. Local residents, neighbors, workers, and community leaders participated in the meeting and shared some ideas of how to avoid these types of accidents. The city mayor opens the community meeting with appreciation of everyone showing their support to prevent these types of fatality accidental situations with a moment of silence.

The traffic congestion in southern San Francisco Bay Area is creating more concerns within cities along El Camino Real roadway because VTA (Valley Transportation Authority) is proposing lanes for buses only. The cities of Palo Alto and Mountain View with other cities are opposing the proposal by VTA to assign two lanes for buses only along El Camino Real. Some Palo Alto residents are saying, traffic congestion along El Camino Real is getting worse everyday at Charleston and Embarcadero Road, and assigning two lanes for VTA buses only will make it worse for drivers and pedestrians.

The parents of a student resident in San Carlos filed a lawsuit against Caltrans transportation because of highway repair negligence causing their son's car to eject him from the car, and killed him because of major car accident injuries. The accident location has a tree in a median island that the car hit and created an ejection motion causing student critical injuries in January 2014. It appears that Caltrans highway management crews have been talking about making changes at that particular location to avoid future car accidents.

The state Caltrans transportation department is advising drivers about highway construction at Presidio in San Francisco, impacting traffic on Highway 1 during next week in March due to roadway overnight closures. Northbound Highway 1 will be closed for Phase-II constructions from Lake Street to Doyle Drive in San Francisco, and Caltrans is encouraging drivers to seek for alternative routes. The overnight approved closing hours will be from 1 AM to 6 AM for Saturday-Sunday, 12 AM to 5 AM for Monday-Thursday, and 1 AM to 5 AM on Friday.

The traffic issues within San Francisco Bay Area is raising more and more concerns including local political leaders and offering to hear from the public regarding latest neighborhood Caltrain accident killing a driver. Menlo Park Councilman Ray Mueller is issuing special working hours for Monday, to discuss the accident that killed Jennifer Koo who was driving her SUV and struck by a Caltrain on the railway tracks.

The commuting BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) passengers on February 20, 2015 may have been exposed to measles riding the trains at approximately 4:20 PM based on a report from San Mateo County health officials. An infected passenger from San Mateo County boarded a BART train from Millbrae to San Francisco BART station at the civic center. This will be the fourth case of infected people in San Mateo County and a second case of passengers riding BART with this medical health infection.

The state legislators will be considering a regulated legislation to avoid future BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) strikes so people don't suffer from lack of transportation within San Francisco Bay Area. The legislative bill introduced by Assemblywoman Catharine Baker is to prevent anymore strikes by BART union members. It will provide both BART and union members with workable legal clauses, to help both sides come to a labor agreement without strikes.

Transportation in San Francisco Bay Area is essentially critical for a new office for VTA (Valley Transportation Authority) in San Jose within the heart of Silicon Valley. A new VTA headquarters office was open last week in southern part of San Francisco Bay Area on First Street in San Jose. The effort for transportation services innovation, optimal performance level, and to improve roads and infrastructure to ease traffic congestion.