Airline travelers within San Francisco Bay Area airports and nationwide will not be able to fly with their personal Samsung Galaxy Note-7 smartphones. Because U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) issued an emergency declaration for all passengers traveling on airplanes to ban carrying their smartphones effective this past weekend. The smartphones are banned and cannot be packed in passengers luggage and/or shipment air cargo because of safety reasoning.

More regional transportation planning for Plan Bay Area 2040 approach within the County of San Mateo, California. The effort is to help local regional residents, families and children, including working class people with reliable transportation. The County of San Mateo released a draft of their transportation plan aligned with MTC (Metropolitan Transportation Commission) Plan Bay Area 2040. Including possible funding to help with the county local traffic congestion, and making local transportation economically and environmentally safe and healthy.

The traffic congestion in San Francisco Bay Area on local highways and roadways continue to impact working class people commuting to work everyday. An option for ferry services has been approved by California PUC (Public Utilities Commission) for two ferry services agencies - Tideline and Prop. This provides commuting passengers optional ways to cross the bay from eastern regional areas to San Francisco avoiding vehicular traffic. This approach is considered "water taxi" using ferry boats and some water taxing services can reach Redwood City, California.

Transportation in San Francisco Bay Area is becoming more challenging especially for working class people and travelers on personal or business endeavors. The new Warm Spring BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station in southern part of Fremont, California is planning to open soon before upcoming elections in November. The new BART station projected costing amount is $890 million and hoping voters will approve a ballot bond measure for BART funding assistance.

The San Francisco Bay Area regional study report identifies various counties with traffic congestion areas. The MTC (Metropolitan Transportation Commission) released annual report identifies Santa Clara County with 4 major traffic congested highway arteries. The report also identifies nearly 30% of the Bay Area public transit systems have past their usefulness for people. The BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) system is 71% beyond it's useful for passengers and needs service improvement for the fleet.

The muni transportation system in San Francisco continues to investigate last Monday's bus accident for safety reasoning. The SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) provided information to city mayor's office regarding a computer error that may have caused the muni bus accident. The reports identifies a computer glitch error was malfunctioning during the muni bus operation, and created the bus breaks to not operate accordingly as necessary. The bus involved in the accident was one of an older aging bus constructed by Electric Transit Inc.

The Tesla Motors in Palo Alto, California is rebounding with more luxury cars during quarterly deliveries. It's reported that 70% of Tesla cars will be delivered during third quarter and vehicles have been improved. The production problems have been resolved and adding more cars to 24,500 to deliver since June including better lease deals for customers. The fall season usually brings new favorable car deals and prices, and getting ready for new expedited car deliveries.

Some local political leaders are considering public transit extension as traffic continues to get worse in San Francisco Bay Area. The traffic congestion along Interstate Highway 580 gets bad everyday during commuting hours for working class people in Central Valley. That's exactly why Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty is taking the lead to help Central Valley commuters and seeking to extend BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) services. He is proposing to extend BART services to Livermore, and connecting with other transit services between San Jose and Stockton.

The trains transporting passengers within San Francisco Bay Area should have a technology safety device installed. A federal law requires all passenger and freight railroad trains to have the PTC (Positive Train Control) mechanism onboard for safety. The PTC technology system is designed to prevent any train collisions and derailing them from railway tracks. The train brakes will automatically activate when the device captures a sense of possible train collision, and safely preventing train passengers onboard from any accidents.

The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) is launching a safety campaign effort to ensure pedestrians are safe, and drivers are safely driving within the city without accidents. As vehicular traffic is getting worse in San Francisco Bay Area, many local cities and counties are doing their best to ensure the safety of local residents. The San Francisco Police Department received $2 million from a state grant funding for the enforcement effort of drivers to slow down. The SFPD safety effort is aligned with the city's Vision Zero goals of eliminating traffic fatalities by 2024.