The high technological self-driving companies in San Francisco Bay Area is having a legal battle because of technology allegations. The Waymo legal associates filed a lawsuit yesterday in San Francisco federal courts against Uber ride-sharing company. The allegation is because a former top manager working for Google in the past, Anthony Levandowski, left and found a startup called Otto. The Otto company is building self-driving big rig trucks and Uber bought Otto for $680 million last year.

The federal grant for Caltrain's electrification project has been delayed by FTA (Federal Transit Administration). The delayed FTA funding will endanger the full $1.98 billion project for Silicon Valley and most importantly will delay the project. The $647 million federal grant was earmarked for Caltrain to start the railway electrification project and start hiring contracting workers. The project work is schedule to start on March 1, 2017 as the deadline including electric elements from the manufacturing company.

The Oakland A's baseball team is considering public transportation during their search for a new baseball field to make it easier for A's fans. The baseball is considering many different locations within Oakland, California and fans can ride BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) during home games. The team administration is trying to review many possible sites including transportation and environmental protection. Another considerable location is near Lake Merritt and traffic with parking issues are fully reviewed before a final decision for the new A's baseball field location.

The public transit agencies within San Francisco Bay Area are trying to encourage people to ride public transportation and many people don't want to because of unsafe and healthy issues. A passenger riding AC Transit in Richmond, California was arrested because of his misbehavior in the bus, thereafter the driver asked the passenger to behave properly and the passenger refused. The driver placed the passenger under citizen's arrest and called police officers for assistance and passenger was arrested.

The I-580 Richmond/San Rafael Bridge access improvement project is coming along, and latest bad weather condition is making it tougher as planned. The improvement project will ease traffic congestion accessible for vehicles and capacity on the bridge including new routes for non-motorized travelers. It's a long-term project scheduled through the Fall of 2017 and working times will continue, between 7 PM to 6 AM nighttime and daytime 5 AM to 2 PM Monday to Friday.

The highways and roadway bridges in San Francisco Bay Area needs ongoing repairs and maintenance for safety reasoning. The vehicular traffic congestion impact is making is worst and considering latest bad weather conditions, and hopefully will get federal infrastructure funding to help with repairing needs. The San Francisco Bay Area traffic congestion is rated number 4 as the worst in the world, and American Road & Transportation Builders Association estimates approximately 5% of the state bridges are structurally deficient.

The San Francisco police officers arrested a 29 year old man linking him to the shooting onboard a muni train in San Francisco. The police officers reviewed the surveillance video from the train and identified the man as Anthony Ray, and he injured a passenger with a bullet wound on the head. The police responded to the shooting onboard muni T-Line train within the Dogpatch neighborhood near 3rd and 22nd streets. The passenger victim was transported to San Francisco General Hospital for his head injury and expected to recover.

The transportation government agencies are hosting community forums to hear exactly from local communities regarding interstate highways in the Bay Area. The MTC (Metropolitan Transportation Commission) and TRB (Transportation Research Board) is planning to have the first community forum in San Francisco, on Thursday, February 23, 2017 from 9 AM to 5 PM at Bay Area Metro Center location. The second meeting is scheduled on Friday, February 24, 2017 from 9 AM to 12 Noon at the same location, 375 Beale Street, San Francisco, California.

The historical and crooked iconic Lombard Street in San Francisco is considering a toll system for visitors. The local legislatures are advocating for a study to possibly start charging people to take a stroll down the world's mostly crooked street. The local authority agencies are working closely with legislatures to study how the toll system would work for tourists and local residents. Because local residents are sharing their concerns about health issues with emission fumes from cars and ongoing traffic problems.

The state legislatures are well aware of long-term needs for road repairs, transportation improvement projects, etc. because of backlog on state transportation projects - $59 billion to upgrade state highways alone. The local motorist commuters are paying the price because of poor road conditions and local streets people use everyday to travel in San Francisco Bay Area. The California Department of Transportation report shows local streets and roadway repairing is even bigger with a backlog of $73 billion for upgrades.