Transportation

At Diridon Station, the 51-mile trip from San Jose to San Francisco aboard CalTrain becomes a trip back in history, in hopes of creating a better future. Once again, the songs, signs, and messages trumpet the annual “Celebration Train” marking the birth of Dr. King.

In addition to its regular weekend service, Caltrain will add a southbound express train before the game to the Mountain View Station. That express train departs from the San Francisco Station at 1:40 p.m. 

The closure is needed for worker and public safety during the inspections from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 27-30, the agency said.

East Bay bus carrier AC Transit will hear its resolution when it meets at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the district's second floor boardroom at 1600 Franklin St. in Oakland

The 14th richest person in the world took BART on Friday, heading from San Francisco to Oakland where he met with Mayor Libby Schaaf outside Beauty’s Bagel Shop on Franklin Street.

SamTrans buses are reportedly dropping off homeless people along San Francisco's Embarcadero at the end of the night. 

BART deployed a new team of officers on Monday to monitor trains and platforms as part of Chief Ed Alvarez's plan to reduce crime. 

San Francisco Fire Department paramedics responding to Bayshore Boulevard and Sunnydale Avenue at 1:32 a.m. pronounced the man dead at the scene.

The new feature, which had a soft launch in mid-December, allows riders to bypass ticket vending machines by using their mobile device to select the station they parked at, input their parking space number and pay for the ticket.

Oakland officials said the city will be Reveal's first market on the West Coast and the company's service area will cover the entire city.

The new system, to be installed over the next 11 years, will replace the current system installed in 1972.

Brim is scheduled to return to court on Monday for a mental competency hearing before another judge, Superior Court Judge Michael Gaffey.

He became the interim chief in May after the retirement on Carlos Rojas. 

Under consideration is whether to add 10 unarmed employees walking around the trains and platforms

BART says an unstable person on the tracks between two stations in the East Bay is causing major delays Wednesday evening.