The state Caltrans transportation agency is mourning their lost of a friendly coworker because of a vehicle crashed into the Bay Area toll booths over the weekend. The fatal crash damaged four toll booths of San Francisco Bay Bridge and three have been reopened for services thereafter repairs. The vehicle accident killed one of Caltrans toll taker, Si Si Han, and coworkers are feeling the pain of their loss.

The SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) is planning to ban personal cars on Market Street in The City for pedestrians and transit safety elements. The SFMTA staffing will start outreaching to local communities and businesses regarding therein plan for safety reasoning. The business loading zones will become limited on Market Street and may use other alternative locations. It seems other business merchants have been using side streets for trucks to unload and may work permanently.

The SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) will have concrete islands on Taraval Street when approved by Board of Directors. The SFMTA implemented a pilot project for therein street and it appears the project didn't work to fully protect local pedestrians. The SFMTA activated therein pilot project during early part of this year including visual street safety signs warning cars, to caution and/or to stop for pedestrians when boarding the railway train.

The AC transit services agency is having their free-ride Holiday Bus throughout the month of December 2017 to kickoff the holiday season. The theme for this year is "Warm Holiday Wishes" for passengers along with seasonal decorations and holiday colors. The Holiday Bus will appear at various service area locations and passengers can get onboard for a free ride including a 2018 yearly calendar. The Holiday Bus will operate throughout December and gifting calendar includes pictures of Warriors Championship victorious parade in Oakland.

The San Francisco Bay Area transit agencies are kicking off this holiday season during the weekend with local fun activities for families and children. The SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) is having a Holiday Block Party at Dogpatch neighborhood on Saturday, December 2, 2017 from 10 AM - 6 PM including Caltrain Holiday Train toys drive for children. Including San Francisco Veterans Film Festival at Civic Center/Main Public Library with various times and muni buses/trains will provide transportation.

The Alameda CTC (County Transportation Commission) has approved $107 million for Highway I-680 improvement project to hopefully ease traffic in San Francisco Bay Area. The highway Express Lane improvement project is a partnership between Caltrans and Alameda County for construction to begin during early 2018. The project construction will be along Highway I-680 in northern Sunol regional area, and it will widen the existing freeway with express lanes. Including upgrades and modifications for controlled accessibility similar to the other project on Highway I-580 express lanes.

The Lucid Motors announced moving its headquarters across the Bay Area from Menlo Park, California to Newark across Dumbarton Bridge. Because of its growth within San Francisco Bay Area and needs more space of operation to enable more collaborative designing and engineering developments. The new Lucid Motors headquarter location is not far from Tesla's autonomous competitor factory in the Bay Area. The new headquarters paperwork process is happening and will have more space for lab, design and engineering including office personnel.

The VTA (Valley Transportation Authority) improvement project for Rapid 523 transit services will complete the majority of bus stop construction during next month. The new bus routing rapid service is aiming to begin next year during June 2018, and upgraded repairs along bus stops in San Jose and Santa Clara. The progressive development of therein rapid services improvement project will include construction, at the intersection of Stevens Creek Boulevard and Wolfe Road in Cupertino.

The SamTrans transit services in San Mateo County is having "Stuff-A-Bus" event on Friday, December 1, 2017 to collect toys for boys and girls in the Bay Area. The event will be at Serramonte Shopping Center, 3 Serramonte Center, Daly City 94015 from 11 AM to 2 PM in front of Jamba Juice next to Target. It's a partnership by SamTrans and KOIT 96.5 with Freska bringing holiday season in San Francisco Bay Area. People can join and bring an unwrapped holiday gift to stuff the holiday bus for therein toy drive for boys and girls.

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.