The Oakland mayor and city officials recently purchased a milling machine as part of the plan to repair local streets and sidewalks in East Bay. The repair milling machine cost $570,000 to help with pavement construction and street maintenance projects for repairing crew members. A local measure approval funding along with Alameda County Measure-BB funding is certainly helping with local transportation projects. The Oakland Department of Transportation reports $443 million of backlog street repairs and repaving construction work that needs to happen.

The San Francisco Bay Area Holiday Train running from San Francisco to San Jose along Caltrain railway tracking line is scheduled for the first weekend next month in December. The Holiday Train has been running for 15 years as part of the Bay Area holiday traditions with decorated festive lights. The Holiday Train will run on Saturday, December 2, 2017 and Sunday, December 3, 2017 making stops at nine Caltrain stations. The Holiday Train festive activities are presented and sponsored by Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and free entertainment will be at Caltrain stop locations.

The San Francisco Bay Ferry services will add new service time because of increase ridership and flexibility with East Bay ferry services. The new service time on weekday schedules will enhance services for ferry passengers from Alameda Harbor Bay to San Francisco Ferry building. The new 7 AM departure from East Bay to San Francisco will be effective Monday, December 4, 2017 from Alameda Harbor Bay terminal. The enhancement ferry services is funded by local transportation measures approved by Alameda County voters for transit improvement projects.

The SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) board decided not to have recreational marijuana advertisements on muni transit buses and trains. The mayor's office is strongly opposing therein pot cannabis ads on muni transit systems and under pressure from local neighboring communities. Some local people are saying, "marijuana makes people and teenagers mentally ill including other physical unhealthy symptoms.

The Uber company is going through another legal problem thereafter being fined by State of Colorado for allowing unsafe drivers transport passengers. The Colorado PUC (Public Utilities Commission) fined Uber $8.9 million for authorizing drivers with criminal, and/or motor vehicle offense backgrounds to transport passengers within state jurisdictions. Needless to say, reports identified Uber paid hackers $100,000 to delete all breaching information of customers and drivers as well as showing privacy violations.

The Tesla company is planning to add more charging stations at Hilton Hotels during new year 2018. The Hilton Hotels agreed with Tesla to install electric charging stations at 194 locations nationwide during 2015, and planning to add 86 more charging stations next year. The Silicon Valley regional area have dozens of charging destinations at other local hotels and restaurants. The Tesla company plans to add heavy duty mega-charging stations especially for upcoming new electric transporting semi-trucks to operate within a 400 mile range.

The Silicon Valley BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) extension project under Phase-II development is considering which tunneling design is suitable for passenger safety. The San Francisco Bay Area transit leaders are looking at options for therein BART tunnel, either single-bore and/or double-bore tunnels for BART trains. The VTA (Valley Transportation Authority) and BART officials formed a professional team called the "Peer Review Panel" to provide insight and analytical review of the project tunnels.

The new BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) trains are not ready for services in San Francisco Bay Area during Thanksgiving Day. The BART administration was hoping to have new trains prepared and ready for services on Thanksgiving, and unfortunately it failed a safety inspection test. The CPUC (California Public Utilities Commission) provides safety inspection for public transit trains before it operates to transport passengers. The BART new trains failed therein CPUC safety inspection earlier this month and delaying trains from operating.

The Walmart company is pre-ordering transporting semi-trucks from Tesla since they unveiled the testing prototype few days ago. The Walmart retail company is hoping to have 5 new electric semi-trucks for transporting within U.S. nationwide and 10 for transporting services in Canada. The Walmart retailers and other companies are counting on Tesla's new electric semi-trucks to transport their products to consumers and saving our natural environment.

The holiday season is here and San Francisco Bay Area airports and highways will be busy for upcoming Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. The Triple-A reports an estimate of 3.3% increase for holiday travelers this year nationwide from last year - highest Thanksgiving percentage since 2005. The SFO (San Francisco International Airport) is one of the busiest airport in the Bay Area and nationwide, considering many holiday travelers would be going through SFO airport.