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Due to a gasoline tanker truck accident -- which resulted in an eco-unfriendly dousing of over "26 gallons" (?) of gasoline, or so said CBS 5's Judge Judy breaking-news interruption -- all northbound and southbound lanes on Highway 101 in Redwood City are closed. That? Blows.
It seems that a 26,000 gallon gasoline tanker big rig overturned just north of Maple Street near Woodside. According to ABC 7, a "Coast Guard crew is heading to the scene to make sure no oil is leaking into drains in the center divide, which flow into San Francisco Bay."
Check your traffic here, here, and here before heading home, folks, and plan on spending time taking alternate routes.
UPDATE #1: The CHP claims it would be well after 5 p.m. before any closed lanes re-open.
UPDATE #2: "The CHP estimated that southbound lanes would reopen about 9:15 p.m., while northbound lanes likely wouldn't be cleared and until 11:30 p.m.," says CBS 5.
UPDATE #3: 15 hours after the crash, three northbound lanes are open. Southbound lanes are all open. Go nuts, people.
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2600 gallons!
Let me get this straight: the drains on the freeway drain directly into the bay?
Yes, the little blue crabs tell us all that we need to know. BTW that warm water off Pier 39 today was me taking a pee.
Storm drains aren't sewers.
That's what post-storm runoff pollution is. That's why water quality organizations tell you not to get in the water 72 hours after significant rainfall (divers, ocean swimmers, surfers).
That's why beach cleanup volunteers dislike cigarette smokers who toss butts into the street.
The ones on the freeways are no different than the ones in front of your house. Again, storm drains flow directly into the bay or ocean.
Don't go tossing garbage, cigarette butts, motor oil, etc. into gutters. Remember that any crack in the asphalt lets crap into the ballast and into the ground.
I work in S'vale off 101 and live in SF; today I left the office early and took 280 instead. It wasn't too bad, though there was a lot of slowdown and exit-lane backup around 92E, and the usual idiots who freak out and forget how to drive in the rain.
i've often thought we should ban cigarette smoking in cars just to get them to stop throwing their butts onto the freeway
why are smokers such pathetic losers?
"Pffshhhsh! What is this?"
"Gasoline. Hahahha"