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Caltrain had more suicides in 2008 — 12 — than any year in its history. From the launch of Caltrain in 1992 through 2008, 62 percent of the railroad’s deaths were ruled to be suicides.
If Caltrain opts to build additional tracks near the California Avenue station, the train corridor would intrude into Peers Park and require property acquisitions in the northern part of this segment.
A train pulled into the Palo Alto Caltrain station. The 90 people killed along the Caltrain tracks in the past eight years include children, impatient drivers, joggers and suicides.
A beefed-up Caltrain service and a slimmed-down high-speed rail system could run between San Francisco and San Jose by sharing the existing rails, plus just a few miles of new passing tracks ...
For years, Palo Alto leaders have insisted that the city must come up with a plan to separate the railroad tracks from crossing streets to accommodate an expected surge in Caltrain riders. But as ...
It’s a Monday morning in the beginning of October and a man enters the Caltrain tracks from a street crossing in Burlingame. He takes a few hundred steps down the rail line, steps on the tracks ...
Caltrain is working on new methods of preventing vehicle crashes on its tracks in response to a sharp uptick this year, particularly in recent months, officials said Wednesday. Latest U.S.
Caltrain is warning people who live near its tracks that they may hear noises in the weeks ahead. That's because a big rail-grinding project started Wednesday. The work has to be done when there ...
SANTA CLARA (KRON) — The Caltrain tracks have reopened following a collision with a pedestrian near the Santa Clara station, but riders should expect continuing delays. A post on the agency’s ...
Caltrain, the commuter rail service that runs between Santa Clara County and San Francisco, doesn't lead the nation or even the state for suicides on its tracks, but the numbers are troubling enough.
Feds want to know why Caltrain's emergency prevention system failed ahead of crash that injured 13. Officials want to know why equipment, including a crane, was on the tracks at the time of the ...