Transportation is a critical means of life support in San Francisco Bay Area and needs appropriate changes, especially for commuting working class people including families and children. The traffic congestion issues are becoming more and more headaches for drivers, including highways and roadways in the Peninsula regional areas from San Jose to San Francisco. State legislators are trying to seek solutions to ongoing traffic problems and research data is suggesting transportation issues of concerns will get worse.

According to generated data on deaths within San Francisco Bay Area by means of transportation, it shows 11 deaths related to workplace transportation activities. The other data shows 7 deaths during transportation task and 9 of the deaths involved people in transportation and lacking safety issues of concern. There 385 cases statewide regarding transportation since 2013 and data indicates 133 from transportation incidents, and 76 from violence and other injuries on the road.

The City of Petaluma in Sonoma County is undergoing some highway and roadway improvement projects, and creating hardship for traffic during regular working hours for commuters. Earlier this month in February 2015, temporary configurations were in place for northbound and southbound at Old Redwood Highway off-ramps interchanging lanes. All drivers should be aware of traffic and when exiting the freeway at Old Redwood Highway, immediately choose a left of right lane during the exiting process to avoid accidents.

The state legislators in California will possibly approve a legislative bill regulating responsible bicyclist adults to wear helmets while riding a bicycle. The bicycle helmet legislation is presently in effect only for under 18 years of age people, and this legislation will make it to include adults over 18 years of age for their safety. The legislative bill is introduced by Senator Carol Liu, D-La Canada Flintridge as a form of preventing head injuries for bicyclists riding to work and/or pleasure on a daily basis.

The Golden State Warriors basketball team administrators are working closely with San Francisco administrative officials to make it work for transportation when the arena opens in 2018. The Warriors team administrative representative provided a transportation plan for Mission Bay Advisory Committee review in San Francisco, and looking at all possibilities to avoid traffic issues during Warrior home games.

The California Department of General Services spent $540,000 for state legislators new hybrid cars to use for business use only on a leasing basis for legislative officials. The new hybrid eco-friendly cars will replace older car models aligned with Governor Jerry Brown's encouraging instructions, for legislators to use clean fuel cars to save our natural green environment. Some people are not happy about expenditures for new hybrid cars because people are trying to make it in California with high cost of living among everything else.

The traffic transportation issues in San Francisco Bay Area has been analytically reviewed by various experts, and MTC (Metropolitan Transportation Commission) recently released a report differentiating a myth versus reality. The commuting traffic in San Francisco Bay Area has been ranked as number one traffic congestion area nationwide, based on latest polling survey study as Philadelphia and Houston as number two and number three.

The regulated ordinance to ban e-cigarettes from BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) was finally approved by BART Board of Directors during their meeting yesterday. It means that e-cigarette smoking are officially banned at BART locations and on BART trains, and regular smoking cigarettes have already been banned the same way. BART police will enforce the ordinance to ensure compliance for commuters, and fines will be issued at $100 for first-time offenders and $200 for repeating offenders.

The measles disease virus outbreak at Disneyland recently spreads out within San Francisco Bay Area, and affecting some families and children in California including passengers on BART transportation in the bay area. The BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) officials are issuing a warning signal to all BART train passengers, to ensure they are prepared and not affected by any passengers riding BART trains. Some BART employees and passengers may have been exposed because an infected LinkedIn employee commutes on BART with measles.

A lawsuit is filed against the federal ruling by the Federal Surface Transportation Board regarding the high-speed railway pertaining environmental impacts in the railway development. The lawsuit has been filed in U.S. Ninth Circuit Appellate Courts in San Francisco, and hopefully overturning the federal board ruling and not disrupting the high-speed railway developmental process. Kings and Kern County attorneys including San Francisco Bay Area county agencies are participating in the petition filing process within the court of laws.