After securing a bid 45% lower than originally estimated, the tunnel portion of Warm Springs extension has been given the go-ahead by BART. The tunnel will extend southeast from the existing Fremont BART station, underneath man-made Lake Elizabeth, before turning south to occupy the former Western Pacific rail right-of-way. The only station to be built [...]

This was the second walking tour put on by the City. Leading the way was SJRA’s Kip Harkness, along with several others from the City. The walk started out inside the station depot, where we were informed that the tour would take an hour. Bottled water was graciously provided (your tax dollars at work).We quickly [...]

A bunch of planning/ballpark-related activity is on tap for the next month+ in San Jose, including tonight’s Diridon site walking tour. The full list: Wednesday, August 19, 6 PM: Walking tour of development area at Diridon Station. Saturday, September 12, 9 AM-12 PM @ Parkside Hall, Room B (180 Park Ave., next to the Tech [...]

The Merc’s Elliott Almond interviewed Lew Wolff on the state of the Quakes stadium effort, and the news was not good. According to Wolff, the problem is sponsorship revenues. “You can’t do it out of magic,” Wolff said. “There’s no sense building a stadium unless you have some flow of revenue.” The club, Wolff said, [...]

Cooler heads seemingly have prevailed as BART and its unions came to a tentative agreement on a four-year CBA. It’s important to note that the agreement is indeed tentative as rank-and-file members have yet to vote on the deal later this week. Hopefully a done deal will make the following table little more than trivial:Not [...]

It’s a bad sign for the UFL when none of the Bay Area daily papers had a story from Tuesday’s unveiling of the San Francisco California franchise team name and colors. Just as well, though, since they would have been blinded by this:SF Weekly’s Joe Eskenazi was brave enough to potentially harm his own lenses [...]

Matier and Ross report that telecom giant Verizon may be in talks with the Coliseum Authority to do a short term naming rights deal at the stadium. It would be a “five-year, multimillion-dollar deal.” Yes, we had just gotten used to one season as the rightfully named Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, but the City of Oakland [...]

Why is it that stuff always happens during a Rangers series? A man with a long white beard (who apparently was a Rangers fan) was a bit too animated during last night’s game and was tased for his attitude.Just as told by Rob Riggle’s officer in The Hangover, the big boys need two shots – [...]