Peninsula Rail 2000 is now BayRail Alliance

Current Caltrain schedule has 22 Baby Bullets

• Article in SF Chronicle, 8/2/05
• Article in San Mateo County Times, 8/2/05
• Article in SF Chronicle, 8/1/05
• Article in San Mateo Journal, 7/29/05
• Caltrain press release, 7/28/05

Baby Bullet received two MTC Awards in 2004

• 2004 Grand Award
• 2004 Legislative Award to State Senator Jackie Speier

Compared to Caltrain's regular service, the Baby Bullet express cuts travel times between San Jose and San Francisco from 90 minutes to 57 minutes, a savings of over 35% and a time competitive with the speed of driving between most of the station pairs. Baby Bullet Phase I construction was fully funded by the State of California. The total amount funded is $127 million.

In 2002 and 2003, Caltrain purchased 17 low-floor bi-level rail cars from Sound Transit (Sounder) in Seattle and five locomotives from MPI for the new service. The bi-level railcars were used for regular Caltrain service until the "Baby Bullet" express service commenced in June 2004.

The Baby Bullet makes four or five Peninsula stops between San Jose and San Francisco:

• San Francisco (Muni connection, including the 'N' Light Rail)
• 22nd Street, San Francisco (AM southbound, PM northbound only)
• Milbrae (BART-SFO connection)
• Hillsdale (Foster City shuttle)
• Palo Alto (Stanford and Palo Alto shuttles)
• Mountain View (VTA Light Rail)
• San Jose Diridon (SJ Downtown/DASH, SJ Arena/HP Pavilion, VTA Light Rail)

Effective August 1, 2005, some of the Bullets now serve five additional Caltrain stations:

• San Mateo
• Redwood City
• Menlo Park
• Sunnyvale
• Tamien (San Jose)

Caltrain's budget crisis prompted August service changes, two fare increases. See Caltrain's announcement from 4/25/05.