The SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) is upgrading North Point Street and The Embarcadero waterfront walkways and biking lanes. The new bicycle traffic signal and green colored lanes are installed for bicyclists safety turns easier when necessary. These upgrades are slowly coming along to ensure pedestrians and bicyclists are safe and consistent with the Vision Zero initiative. The SFMTA improvement projects are making safer streets in the Bay Area, and for everyone working and living within San Francisco.

The SamTrans and Caltrain transit systems in San Mateo County joined along with VTA (Valley Transportation Authority) to relief traffic congestion. Because today is national "Dump The Pump Day" spearheaded by APTA (American Public Transportation Association) throughout the country, local public transit agencies are joining teams to fight traffic congestion. The VTA transit system serving Santa Clara County works along with SamTrans and Caltrain to celebrate today's 12th Annual Dump The Pump Day in San Francisco Bay Area.

The VTA (Valley Transportation Authority) transit system has its 12th Annual Dump the Pump Day today to help resolve traffic congestion in the Bay Area. The VTA administration have this annual event to encourage drivers of "dumping the gas pump" and get onboard a VTA transit bus to help fight local traffic congestion. The VTA pledging effort is for people to get out of their cars and ride the transit buses and get rewards. The VTA representatives are available at 6 different transit stations within Santa Clara County giving people gift cards for riding the bus today.

The BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) train system is preparing for Golden State Warriors Championship parade tomorrow in Oakland. The BART officials are expecting bigger ridership for passengers tomorrow because of Warriors NBA (National Basketball Association) Championship parade. The last time Warriors won their NBA Championship in 2015 about 548,076 passengers were onboard BART trains in San Francisco Bay Area. The BART administration is expecting more passengers tomorrow on trains and possibly exceeding therein ridership numbers in 2015.

The SamTrans Transit District services for San Mateo County has been approved by Board of Directors for therein new Fiscal Year from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018. The new operating fiscal budget will be $147 million with a slight increase from last fiscal year based on functional expenditures. The new operating budget will allow SamTrans Transit District to advance its Five Year Strategic Plan along with efficient administrative practice. Including achievement and financial integrity for improvement projects for accountable transit services for San Mateo County.

The SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) is reducing speed limits on major streets along west side of the city. The speed limit will be reduced 5 miles less from 35 to 30 mph on sections of Fulton Street and Sunset Boulevard, and 30 to 25 mph street locations in South of Market. Including streets along Haight Ashbury, Parkmerced, Dogpatch and Westbound Highlands neighborhood streets, and it becomes part of Vision Zero project planning. The improvement plan is all part of pedestrian and bicyclist safety within the city communities.

The BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) transportation system police force in San Francisco Bay Area is turning on technology to fight crime. The BART police officers is making its crime data public to help fight crime issues in the Bay Area because of increasing crime rates. The robberies at BART stations and/or trains have increased to 45% from last year statistical data according to the agency reports. The BART station at Oakland Coliseum reports the highest crime with 13 robberies and Bay Fair station with 9 robberies.

A member of San Francisco Board of Supervisors want to charge Uber and/or Lyft ride-sharing companies a fee when picking up passengers. The SFO (San Francisco International Airport) administration makes Uber and Lyft pay $3.80 for each passenger ride at the airport. Therein costing amount is passed on to passengers to pay and SFO generates approximately $2 million a month as additional airport revenues. The approach is having control on local traffic congestion issues for The City with some resolutions, and charging ride-sharing companies will help resolve local traffic issues.

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced releasing funds to Caltrain for safety reasoning. The Caltrain transit will receive $21.68 million federal money for the implementation process of Positive Train Control (PTC) safety systems. The trains will be equipped with PTC safety control systems and aiming to complete the implementation process by December 31, 2018. The FRA and FTA federal grant funding money will be used to improve safety for passengers by installing PTC safety control systems on trains.

Congratulations, to MTC (Metropolitan Transportation Commission) for winning the 2017 Transportation Planning Excellence Award. The award is from Federal Highway Administration for the "Plan Bay Area and One Bay Area Grant Program" for excellence transportation planning. The Plan Bay Area is a long-range transportation and land use project throughout nine counties within San Francisco Bay Area. The One Bay Area Grant Program provides funding sources for the transportation planning to make it happen in regional areas.