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▲ 8 r/caltrain

Would Caltrain ever consider going back to the old holiday train format?

The format with the EMU’s is just objectively bad. Before there was entire performances & a completely lit up train. Now it’s just an EMU with some decals & decorations inside. Honestly would really rather they just decorate an MP36 and some BiLevels since all of the gallery cars that are still here are damaged. Realistically though it’s probably a case of “we realized how much easier it is once we tried it” and they’re never gonna switch back. Honestly they might as well just stop doing it all together because it’s basically a train ride with extra photos

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u/Planeandaquariumgeek — 12 hours ago
▲ 26 r/caltrain

Caltrain, fix the system map in the EMU bike cars

As a bike car regular these always bug me so much because they’re so out of date and in one case plain wrong:

Menlo Park & Tamien aren’t express stops anymore (and haven’t been since 2020), and South San Francisco now is an express stop but isn’t marked as such

The express is no longer branded as baby bullet, but rather simply express

Menlo Park never was weekends only, I think it’s a remnant from when Atherton was open but weekends only, but Atherton is now closed, but they didn’t remove the weekends only thingy so now it’s next to Menlo Park.

I found a post on here about these from almost 2 years ago, so these aren’t even remotely a new problem

u/Planeandaquariumgeek — 6 days ago
▲ 54 r/caltrain

Caltrain will probably increase service in the relatively near future if ridership keeps picking back up: here’s how they should do it in my opinion

Assuming Connect Bay Area passes Caltrain’s deficit will be closed, and that will probably open the door to service increases. They could maybe look something a bit like this:

Before Covid, Caltrain had set a goal of 168 trains per day for post-electrification, that fell through thanks to Covid but if ridership continues climbing and funding increases they might bring back this target. Here’s what I think service would perhaps look like:

No need to change anything with the locals (numbered 1xx on weekday timetables and 6xx on weekend timetables), every half hour is fine

Renumber the current limited pattern (express north of Redwood City, local south of Redwood City) to 3xx, keep it running hourly during rush hour (12 per day)

Introduce a new limited pattern numbered 4xx, it’ll run as a local train north of Redwood City and a express train south of Redwood City, run it hourly during rush hour (12 per day)

Increase express service and keep it numbered 5xx: go back to 24 trains per day (every half hour)

Introduce weekend express service (numbered 7xx, same pattern as weekday), run 4 trains per day

Add a 5th South County Connector in each direction, they have trackage rights to run up to 10 per day and might as well use them

What do you guys think?

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u/Planeandaquariumgeek — 6 days ago
▲ 66 r/SouthSanFrancisco

The Safeway on Chestnut is relocating to the corner of South Spruce & El Camino on 6/24

I hardly ever came here because it’s a ways away from me, but honestly kinda sad to see it go. It’s so small (and thus convenient) and also the non-updated decor gave it a nice vibe. R.I.P. Chestnut Safeway

u/Planeandaquariumgeek — 11 days ago
▲ 8 r/caltrain

Gallery trailer cars 3852-3865 and gallery cab cars 4021-4026 were built in 2000, and still had plenty of useful service life. They wouldn’t have been bad to supplement the BiLevel’s (especially now that a lot of those have been leased to Capitol Corridor) in South County service. Anyone have any insight on this?

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u/Planeandaquariumgeek — 21 days ago