Caltrain will temporarily suspend its Baby Bullet service, cut back on its limited-stop trains and reduce its overall weekday schedule by more than 33% for two weeks beginning Monday, the transit agency said.
The agency will also be running bus service instead of trains between Belmont and Mountain View on the weekends and will end train service early on both weekdays and weekends during that two-week period, it said inCaltrain is adjusting its schedule to accommodate work related to its electrification project, it said.
As part of its electrification project, Caltrain is replacing its diesel engines with electric ones and stringing electrical lines to power them. Begun in 2017, the project isOn weekdays during the two-week period, Caltrain will be running only two trains an hour — one local and one limited stop — in each direction. The agency had been running six Baby Bullets express trains each day in both directions during the week and as many as five trains an hour in one direction during peak periods.
Thanks in part to delays caused by the bus bridge, a trip from San Jose's Diridon station to the Caltrain San Francisco station will take 2 hours and 40 minutes, or about an hour longer than the typical weekend ride between the two.During the two-week construction period, the last train heading north each night will leave San Jose's Tamien station at 9:01 p.m. The final southbound train will head out of the line's terminus in San Francisco at 9:22 p.m.
Previously, the agency had been running trains as late as 11:05 p.m. heading north from Tamien and 12:05 a.m. going south from San Francisco.The Business Journal is looking for the most influential women in the Silicon Valley to honor in our prestigious special publication and event.
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