If this San Francisco woman is any kind of bellwether, Hillary Clinton will not win in San Francisco tomorrow....

Sounds like a mess down on 880 just north of Highway 84, where a big rig ran off the highway at around 1 a.m. this morning and spilled its cargo all over the highway. The cargo in question -- crushed cars. The driver suffered major injuries and was sent to the hospital; traffic is currently moving at about 20 mph and is expected to be snarled until 10 a.m. at the earliest, and CHP has......

So, obviously, SFist can't even pretend to be neutral when it comes to Prop A. We've been covering its progress for months, and now it's evolved into a smart, fair compromise that has just about everyone on board -- everyone except a local Republican group. Our local GOP is backing the loathsome Prop H, which would, no joke, replace bus stops, trees, and bike lanes with parking garages. Could this be any more like......

Was it just us, or did you also think, as soon as the Bay Bridge closed, that the only things you wanted to do over Labor Day Weekend were on the other side of the bay? Well, all those days are now nothing but a hazy memory, with the bridge reopening a full 11 hours earlier than planned (at around 6 p.m. last night) and traffic flowing relatively normally (i.e., jammed, but no more......

So the Chronicle says not that many people took advantage of free public transportation today for the first Spare The Air day of the season, but the BART train we were on was certainly pretty crowded. We love Spare The Air days, where all of a sudden the kids that everyone always says they never see in San Francisco materialize out of nowhere and ride the rails all day. (Or for today, until 1 p.m.,......

Just in time for the Friday commute -- a MUNI fire has closed the Embarcadero station. BART trains are going through without stopping, the Chron doesn't know what's going on with MUNI. The fire was electrical, and on the roof of a MUNI train. BART is experiencing 20-30 minute residual delays as we speak. More info (and possibly a picture) as we get it. (If you've got a picture, tag it SFist on Flickr and......

Well, first and most importantly! -- SFist MattyMatt's started a new job so he's been pretty busy at work and hasn't had time to post lately, for all folks asking about him in the SFist Tips column!. But he's still here, we promise! We miss him too! (Meanwhile, you guys can always check out his personal blog.) And second of all -- goodness, what a terrible day on the commutes. It's like when the sun,......

Wow, they work fast at BART! When we started this post, there were 30 minute delays to cross the Bay, and by the time we finished, BART updated its reports to announce that they've fixed the issue with the Transbay Tunnel and all trains are moving again. Turns out there was a crack in one of the tracks in the Transbay Tube (we thought the trains were running a little slow this morning!), so......

Bless the Chron's heart, they know kvetching about traffic is going to move a lot of papers on the newsstand -- so they go above the fold with their article about the twenty worst bottlenecks on the highway. As you'd've guessed, that horrendous interchange at Emeryville for 80/580/880 where you have to get over five lanes just to go south ranks high on the list. We did very much enjoy the descriptions of the worst......

Transformers.... more than meets the eye! Not only robots in disguise, but also the source of today's MUNI irritation. Curse you, Decepticons! A transformer explosion and subsequent electrical pole damage at San Jose and Ocean has rendered the following lines extremely delayed: the J, the 26 Valencia, the 36 Teresita, and the 49 Van Ness. Plan accordingly, Optimus Prime. We went with a picture from the 1986 Transformers animated movie rather than the live-action movie......

If you're headed to South Hayward or points beyond on the Fremont BART lines, there's delays due to a grass fire near the South Hayward BART station. The fire started around 4:19 p.m. and spread to some eucalyptus trees, so they stopped train service. The firefighters are in the station putting out the flames, and a bus is being set up to take Fremont-bound folks home. When we were on the BART at around 5:10......

We're reading on the Chron that unspecified "police action" between 25th and 30th Avenues in the Sunset has completely blocked the N Judah. MUNI is setting up buses between 19th and Sunset Blvd, and the buses will go down Kirkham. Any info on what's going on, readers? Is it Ed Jew again? Update!: It was a "suspicious package" on Judah and 30th that was ultimately deemed to be safe. Picture by awcole72 from Flickr.......

Say hello to your new next door neighbor: a parking garage. Petitioners are currently collecting signatures for a "build more parking" petition, but the terms are insane: it wouldn't just allow developers to install big garages, it would require that all new homes build on extra parking, at the expense of living space. Require! As in, the government says that you don't have a choice! More room for cars means less room to house......

The commute across the Bay Bridge is a little backed up because of a three-alarm fire burning on Treasure Island. The building in question is an abandoned warehouse, and started around 7 a.m. today. One firefighter's been injured, but not seriously, and since it's not posing a threat to anyone, crews are staying outside of the building, waiting for it to collapse, rather than going in and risking their safety. Seems like there's been a......

The envelope, please! Here's your list of the 10 worst commutes in the Bay Area, compiled by the Metropolitan Transit Commission. 1. I-80 W to the Bay Bridge, in the a.m. 2. E-580 from 680 to Dublin in the p.m. 3. 580 around Livermore in the a.m. 4. Marin 101 S from Napa/Sonoma to 580 in the a.m. 5. 101 into San Francisco to the Bay Bridge in the p.m. 6. 92 in Alameda......

Why are all the roads collapsing around here? A newly-installed piece of pavement on southbound 280 came loose at around 5 a.m. this morning, necessitating the closure of three lanes of traffic near Burlingame. Take 101 to work this morning, Ed Jew! (yes, we know, San Francisco is northbound.)) At its worst, traffic was backed up about 7 miles, all the way to Daly City, but things should be moving normally by now. Picture of......

There's been an awful lot of trucks spilling things lately. Today's overturn -- a truck carrying 60,000 pounds of turf on 580, near Livermore. Delays are expected to run about 4-5 hours. The truck driver suffered minor injuries, but a driver in the car next to the big rig suffered major ones. We're wishing him a speedy recovery. The most memorable Bay Area overturns we recall, off the top of our heads: The truck with......

The results are in! What local highway is the worst to commute on, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Committee? Congratulations, 880! You win! I-880 between Fremont and Oakland won the coveted "Most Unreliable Highway" award -- not only because massive traffic jams make the 22 mile road take about an hour to drive, but also because so many random things fall off people's cars into the highway and street sweepers driving (street sweepers sweep the......

You should not attempt to parallel park this vehicle, we say. How the f* did they manage to do that? And most importantly, how were they going to undo it last evening? See that giant red crane truck on the left? There's another one at the right as well. Lift them up?That's an idea: flying train cars! The front of the train is on the track that goes out of the SOMA caltrain yard onto......

Wow, almost everything we've posted today on SFist (except for SFist Tonight) is transportation-themed. Well, we're sorry to have to continue the trend with this news item: there's been a bad accident on 101 near Redwood City, involving a big rig that hit the center divide and burst into flames. What's going on with all these trucks combusting around here these days? One report said that the cab of the big rig exploded with the......

Looks like there's a stuck train blocking all inbound MUNI traffic from Civic Center on. We're still looking for info (and a sufficiently whimsical picture to illustrate this post) but figured we'd pass the info along for now. Update: Okay, now the story we originally found is gone, and we can't find anything about this. Any reports from the field, readers? (We did, however, find this gorgeous picture by Thomas Hawk.) Picture by Thomas......

Sorry this update is late -- we were stuck in the tunnel ourselves! Due to mechanical problems on an SFO/Millbrae bound train around 8 this morning, BART got about 30-45 minutes behind on the morning commute schedule in both directions. The jam should be cleared by now, anyways. We also learned a new word, from the notice alerts they flashed on the Now Arriving screens at our BART station of origin as we waited for......

Those of you who commute from Marin to 280, you may want to go down Van Ness today -- all southbound traffic has been stopped through Golden Gate Park just south of Fulton and down Park Presidio as the authorities clean up the mess (no story, but video clip on front page) from an overturned lumber truck. The driver is reported to be fine; the accident happened around 5:15 a.m. It sounds like the driver......

There seems to be a lot of car-related news in the Chron today. Remember how everyone was so upset because it turns out that SF doesn't collect on like 60% of parking meter money? Well, the second half of the study is in and it turns out the city makes up virtually all of that difference in parking meter fines. (Thanks, opera/parking blogger The Standing Room, for helping the city balance its budget!) By contrast......

Guess who's back talking about MUNI for the ABC 7 I-Team?????? (4:33 on the video). Since Gavin hasn't done anything outrageous lately, Dan Noyes turns his attention to the perennial favorite of complaining about MUNI -- this time discovering the name of the driver who's gotten the most citizen complaints (for ignoring a beating at the back of the bus, refusing to call the police on pickpockets, and swearing at passengers, to name a few.)......

It's the A-Race-Ing Maze! (and not related, but SFist Rain, how awesome that the finale of Amazing Race All-Stars was in SF?) As promised, Caltrans's work around the clock paid off handsomely, with a triumphant announcement yesterday evening (.pdf) that they were reopening the W 80-S 880 connection (the lower level of the collapse) as of 5 a.m. this morning. It took them about a week to get it working again! And apparently, traffic's......

So those stories out there saying the commute this morning wasn't so bad didn’t quite tell the whole story . Turns out there were some problem spots out there, just not throughout the entire maze and a blogger reports that BART was a lot more crowded than it was yesterday. ...

And how is the commute going after yesterday's maze meltdown? So far, so good. Reports are that traffic into the maze was light, as probably everyone who commutes over the Bay Bridge, their dogs, and their fish knows what happened. It's still early yet so we'll see what happens tonight and until the overpass gets fixed....

So, how's that commute going, subway riders? Any better today? More Muni-Meltdown, or less Muni-Meltdown? Above, we've embedded an animation of Metro activity yesterday afternoon; call us crazy, but is seems as though just maybe things are starting to smoothen out a bit, with the exception of the never-ending clustering around Embarcadero. Of course, as with online profiles, the view from the net can sometimes enjoy a vitality that's lacking in real life. The......

There was an evacuation of trains on the Fremont and Dublin-Pleasanton BART lines after a fire at a substation knocked out power to part of the system. The fire started at about 10:15 this morning near the Coliseum stop, eventually knocking out power between the Fruitvale and San Leandro stations....