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A 57-year-old driver as been arrested for DUI after getting hit by a SMART train in Santa Rosa. Late Wednesday morning, the crossing arms were lowered at the

The deadline to build a Santa Rosa pedestrian crossing across SMART tracks has been extended again. The California Public Utilities Commission approved Santa

May 24, 2021 Today SMART will be expanding service and significantly reducing fares. The agency will be adding four morning trips and six afternoon trips to its current weekday schedule starting today. Fares will also be slashed by 40 percent and these changes will last through May of 2022. This is being done in an effort to kickstart ridership as the North Bay starts to recover from the pandemic. At its peak in February of last year, ridership numbers were at about 3,000 weekday trips. Las...

Officials say a pedestrian is dead after being hit by a SMART train. The accident happened near West Robles Avenue in Santa Rosa yesterday afternoon. No further

February 17, 2021 State grant money along with private matching funds are enabling SMART to plan freight operation upgrades. The Press Democrat reports that SMART has secured $2.9 million for the upgrades which will be used to takeover freight operations from the region’s lone hauler, Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company. $400,000 will go towards repairing the Black Point Bridge along the Lower Petaluma River as well as adding federally-mandated safety equipment enhancements. The remaini...

January 21, 2021 It looks like the Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit will have some new leadership. Yesterday, Sonoma County Supervisor David Rabbitt was selected to lead the 12-member body for the North Bay’s rail line. Rabbitt, who has been a SMART director for eight years, was chosen in a 10-0 vote. He will have a two-year term as chair. Officials also voted to appoint Barbara Pahre for another term as vice chair. Quick Links

autoevolution 18 Jan 2021, 7:02 UTC · by 1 photo Deutsche Bahn has announced a digital rail project called Sensors4Rail whose purpose is to help test sensor-based train localization and environment recognition. While this might sound like rocket science at first, the idea behind this project is much simpler. The Germans want their trains to get smarter, so they’re installing sensors and other hardware that would help collect data and allow for two-way communications to improve the over...