Bay Area Rapid Transit breached the 200,000 daily rider mark earlier this week for the first time since the pre-pandemic era, partly boosted by fans of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, according to the transit agency. BART's rider count on Tuesday was 204,265, including 7,286 riders who left the Coliseum station, according to a transit official. “We've been getting closer to the 200,000 mark on weekdays every week this month, and now we've finally broken through,” BART spokesperson Alicia Trost said in a statement.

The BART Silicon Valley project will create 75,000 jobs construction that will help build the 6-mile, four-station extension of BART into downtown San Jose and ending in Santa Clara.

VTA now projects the cost of the final phase of extending BART into downtown San Jose and Santa Clara will be more than 30% higher, and take three years longer, to 2036, to complete.

Without additional revenue from fares, new taxes or some other source, BART is on track to run out of pandemic-era emergency relief funding by mid-2025.

The VTA board authorized the purchase of a high-tech tunnel boring machine for a massive underground train line under downtown from Berryessa to Diridon Station.

Select students at San Jose State University, San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as all students at Santa Rosa Junior College will have access to the new BayPass transit program.

The pilot will later expand to include residents of at least three housing developments run by MidPen Housing, transit officials said.

The VTA had said in February that it would not update its anticipated cost and schedule for the project until it awards four major contracts, including one for tunneling and trackwork slated to be finalized this summer.

The transit agency's ridership has hovered around 10% of pre-pandemic levels since the Covid-19 pandemic began last year.

Perhaps more than any other part of the country, California stands to benefit from the $2.2 trillion proposal by Joe Biden.

Nuria Fernandez, former G.M. for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is now Federal Transit Administration's senior official.

As the COVID-19 case count slowly ticks upward, the actual number of people infected with the coronavirus is many times greater.

Is this finally San Jose’s moment for downtown to realize its potential as a vital and beautiful urban community?

San Jose Inside takes a look at the cost and impact of BART’s long-awaited extension into Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley prides itself on innovation, but the industry’s growth in the Bay Area perpetuates suburban sprawl and drawn-out commutes.