We posted last week about the joyful space tour rides for people using SpaceShipTwo rocket and this possibility has been set back due to the prototype rocket explosion. The Virgin Galactic rocket explosion is under investigation and what caused it, leading into death of one pilot with another pilot in serious injury conditions last Friday during testing flights. Federal investigators of NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) is spearheading this investigation and nothing has been determined yet, and it appears a device was automatically deployed during the aircraft testing flight.

Travelers to SFO (San Francisco International Airport) has been showing increase and United Airlines offered a traveling package called Economy Plus, and other airlines joined in to offer the same approach with extra charges. A new approach called Economy Minus is in the talking points process at this time, and a major airline may take a lead in this effort, providing less legrooms for passengers without reclining seats with less fees.

The bicyclist movement has come long ways to help save our environment and providing healthy standardized ways of commuting to and from work especially for working class people. The San Francisco Bay Area Bike Share program has been running for more than a year and completed it's visualization competition under MTC (Metropolitan Transportation Commission) sponsorship. It was hoping to get some revenue assistance from FTA (Federal Transportation Administration) through NACTO (National Association of City Transportation Officials) with support for local bicycle coalition programs.

People started hearing about space tourism in this new millennial century and many were interested in booking their tourism journeys in space, and SpaceShipTwo rocket was in the process of planning and development for future space tours. Branson Virgin Group owns Virgin Galactic developing the prototype passenger rocket for customers traveling into space for tours, and passengers will have to pay $250,000 a seat for the space journey tours.

The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) had a national conference in San Francisco recently, and provided assistance with bikeway lanes for bicycles and pedestrians in San Francisco. The advisory assistance was based on NACTO's urban street and urban bikeway design guidelines, and San Francisco ratified both street designs. The city Planning Department collaboration with NACTO to improve the streets plan infrastructure making San Francisco streets better for pedestrians and bicyclists.

The transportation system in San Francisco Bay Area including freeways and roadways for traveling, has been on the list for improvement as a priority before they deteriorate endangering traveling passengers. The MTC (Metropolitan Transportation Commission) released a report outlining 66 out of 100, as average PCI (Pavement Condition Index) score for bay area freeways and roadways. Three of major bay area cities like San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose have scored an average fair range, and commission members are looking to improve the transportation system for all communities.

The sporting cars ownership for transportation within San Francisco Bay Area has been elevated in many ways aligned with sporting activities involvement within the bay area. Some of sporting car ownership starts with various types of Ferrari models, and Associated Press is sharing the separation of Ferrari cars from Fiat Chrysler model cars. The spinoff separation is part of a merging plan for capital support and net income increase within a future timeline.

The San Francisco Bay Area BART transportation system has been searching for improvement and wants to hear input from the public including BART commuters. Improvement needs for San Francisco BART stations at Embarcadero and Montgomery to make it easier for passengers especially for health and safety reasoning including overcrowding BART trains. The BART transportation is looking to secure public input as an outreach approach and will prioritize all matters necessary for improvement from the outreach study.

The San Francisco BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) parking fees will begin today at the Concord BART station and leading into parking fees for all BART stations within San Francisco Bay Area. BART parking fees will be validated daily between 4 AM and 3 PM Monday to Friday especially for working class people, and daily fees can be paid by cash, clipper cards, and BART tickets. Another option is to purchase a monthly pass and you can log into www.bart.gov/parking to BART's parking payment system.

The San Francisco MTA (Municipal Transportation Agency) Board of Directors approved a bulb-out project to help streamline muni services along some routing streets. The following streets will be impacted by this planning project along San Bruno, Market, 11th Street, Bayshore Boulevard, Potrero Avenue, Oakdale Avenue, Cortland Avenue, and Harrison. This project intention is to make it easier for passengers during loading and unloading from bus services, and easier for muni transit buses during daily routing activities to be on time picking up passengers.