The recent Napa earthquake damaged and destroyed historical buildings in the City of Napa, including damages along freeways and roadways within Napa County geographical areas. The Napa quake provided people and reviewing committee with assessment information, on how the new bay bridge would withstand earthquakes within the San Francisco Bay Area. MTC (Metropolitan Transportation Commission) and Authority Oversight Committee gave high review marks for the new bay bridge during the recent Napa earthquake, although it raised concerns with defective bolts on the new bay bridge.

The California Department of Transportation has been trying to repair state roadways and freeways, making it safer for commuters and ensuring healthy issues, considering traffic fuel emission levels for cars traveling on state freeways. The latest report by Washington research group and advocacy indicates the annual repair cost for freeways and roadways will be $44 billion, and this will be additional to the state budget amount for transportation every year.

The BART system has been getting crowded with more passengers and needs maintenance repairs including fixtures on cars train wheels, and lately it shows how the transportation system needs improvement in certain areas. During August 27, 2014 the BART system was broken down within Middle Transbay, and September 9, 2014 a person was hit and struck by a train car at BART Bay Fair station. Some BART train cars lost wheels while in operation endangering passengers during their traveling trip, and BART administration is looking into taking care of defective wheels ensuring passengers safety.

Traveling within San Francisco Bay Area is essentially critical for people during daily activities, and transportation can be dangerous for our healthy environment and leading into unhealthy medical issues for people. That's exactly why state legislation is in place to protect our environment from all types of transportation, including all types of vehicles traveling on our freeways and roadways to have appropriate fuel emission levels while in operation.

The recent study by NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) released a report showing more pilots are tested using legal or illegal drugs, and 6,700 pilots killed in crashes from 1990 to 2012 shows positive involvement with toxicology substance. Reflecting the new trends of legal and illegal drugs in America, and the board has investigated which impairment from drugs seems to be the factor to some crashing accidents. The board is concerned about legal and illegal drugs driving the force within transportation.

The recent BART contract negotiations for union members and administration started in April 2013 and broke down several times, due to negotiation delays and contract denial issues regarding pension, working conditions, and pay increases. A conflict resolution report by Washington Consultancy Agreement Dynamics indicates "distrustful relationships" between union members and BART management, and needs a reforming process for improvement benefiting both sides during future negotiations.

The EV (Electric Vehicles) Advocacy group has made a milestone of reporting California is the first state to have 100,000 electric cars and plug-in hybrids on the road. The advocacy group reporting indicates in 2012 electric cars sales are accelerating and offering rebates to customers who purchase electric plug-in and hybrid cars. Car dealers in California are happy to sell hybrid and electric plug-in cars with an effort to save the air, and our environment according to reporting elements.

Airline pilots have developed flying airplanes a professional way of transporting people with optimal training, and required amount of flying hours to be successful as well as neutral relationships with passengers. Sometimes retired pilots take on flying airplanes as a form of hobby and ongoing skill development, and having fun at the same time. Unfortunately, sometimes having fun in the air and flying airplanes can be dangerous, even if the pilot is very skillful with experience, because anything can happen and pilots have to be prepared for challenges at all times during a flight.

The Southwest Airlines have a new physical look and generating more flights in the future, and one of the major airlines force in San Francisco Bay Area with departing and arrival flights in major airports. The airline administrators had 100 plus people working on this project for the past 15 months, and developing the new airline look little-by-little and emerging to a complete new visual look for Southwest Airlines. The whole focus is to have excellent customer services as a priority from the heart since day one, and iconic airline colors are still part of the new look.

The traffic congestion in Bayview District this morning was created by a man hit by the muni railway train on Third Street around 5 AM, and injured man was transported to San Francisco General Hospital for his facial and head injuries. The traffic delayed for more than two hours and one passenger was on the railway train during the incident, and traffic was cleared around 7:30 AM for normal flow of traffic within the area. "The one passenger traveling aboard the train at the time was not injured," said Paul Rose, SFMTA Spokesperson.