What a pretty name for a barge, yes? Morning fog, it seems, has temporarily delayed the investigation into yesterday's Richmond-San Rafael Bridge fender bender. Last night, while being guided by tugboats, the Cascade smacked into the east piling of the western span of the bridge. This comes on the heels of the Cosco Busan oil spill, which happened after the container ship rammed into the Oakland Bay Bridge. Read more about yesterday's non-harrowing incident......

A salute to a stand up bridge ...

Huge Chunk of the Bay Bridge sitting on a beach in Half Moon Bay...

Update: all lanes are now open. It seems that "a box truck, from a business called 'Diet to Go'...drove directly into the back of the big rig," killing the box truck driver. Very sad. Sigh. According to SFGate, "three lanes of the upper deck of the Bay Bridge are blocked by a fatal accident, the California Highway Patrol says." Did you hear that? How awful. Just terrible. Three whole lanes of traffic have closed......

Photo of one of the dead birds killed by our oil spill...

Photos of the 2007 E-surance Icer Air event at the baseball park ...

As if it’s not enough that the re-building of the Bay Bridge has turned into huge spat fight over money and design another spat is possibly brewing over the most important part of the new & improved span- it’s name. This week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a vote saying that the bridge should be named after semi-legendary San Franciscan Emperor Norton, by an 8-2 margin. The resolution calls for officially changing......

SFist first brought this story to you last week...Bay Area bridge costs are way over budget. We aren't talking a few hundred or thousand dollars here. The San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge is "reportedly" $2.54 billion over budget. Yesterday, Governor Schwarzenegger said the Bay Area is to blame for the Bay Bridge costs, and that residents should foot the bill. This doesn't include any state money, even though the bridge IS part of the interstate highway......

Caltrans threw SFist for a loop this weekend. The Chronicle reported that retrofit costs for the bridges are soaring...even though Caltrans hasn't exactly been forthcoming with this information. The San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge is reportedly $2.54 billion over budget, and the Richmond-San Rafael bridge retrofit will cost an additional $249 million. Yes, you read that right. We echo the sentiments of state Senator Tom Torlakson (D-Antioch), of the Senate Transportation Committee. He says, "The......