SF News Video: Caltrans Shows How The Old Bay Bridge Eastern Span Could Be Blown Up Caltrans wants to speed up their dismantling of the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, proposing to use explosive charges on one of the underwater foundations to implode it. In a kind-of-cool
SF News CHP Motorcycle Cop Crashes During Bay Bridge Traffic Stop Eastbound traffic on the Bay Bridge slowed to a crawl for about an hour Thursday afternoon, after a California Highway Patrol motorcycle cop wiped out as he was trying to pull over a
SF News CHP Cracking Down On Drivers Who Break Bay Bridge Carpool Rules Oh, the siren song of the carpool lane. There you are, stuck in traffic as you try to get on the Bay Bridge, while that lane sits there, practically empty. Should solo drivers
SF News Hot Cop Of The Bay Bridge: CHP Cruiser Explodes Near Treasure Island San Francisco Police Officer Chris Kohrs might have been dubbed the Hot Cop of the Castro last year, but now it's 2015 and we have a new hot cop — and this time, it's
Arts & Entertainment Bay Lights Backers Reach Funding Goal To Keep The Lights On After Next Year Fears that the Bay Lights might permanently go dark after March have been allayed, and the foundation behind the light sculpture, Illuminate the Arts, has announced that they've reached their $4 million fundraising
SF News Day Around The Bay: Santa Robs A Bank In what sounds like the plot to a heist film, a bank robber in a Santa suit used Santacon as the perfect cover. [Chronicle] Why do companies think we want our wallets disrupted?
Arts & Entertainment Chronicle Critic John King Hates The Bay Lights, Says They Should Go Away Already Maybe I should commend architecture critic John King for being brave and confident enough in his own aesthetic opinion to come out denouncing the Bay Lights as underwhelming and unworthy of future funding.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Reprieve For Inflatable Pleasanton Snowman The giant inflatable Pleasanton snowman will stay for Christmas after all. [CBS SF] Those expensive palm trees on the Bay Bridge? They're rotting and falling apart. [Chronicle] A USPS truck fire has damaged,
SF News CHP Officers Talk Man Out Of Jumping Off The Bay Bridge After a tense standoff Friday morning, California Highway Patrol officers successfully talked a man back over the railing of the Bay Bridge, and out of jumping to his injury or death. According to
SF News 60 Plus Days Of Bay Bridge Lane Closures To Begin Friday Get ready for significant holdups and delays if you're driving into San Francisco from the East Bay for the next ten weeks. A project to replace deteriorating joints in the upper deck of
SF News Video: The Bay Bridge's Eastern Span Replacement In A Four Minute Time-Lapse EarthCam, the folks who brought us the two-minute time-lapse of Levi's Stadium's construction, are at it again. Today, they sent over the below video of the entire Bay Bridge East Span Replacement, construction
SF News Drugged Out, Unlicensed Woman Allegedly Drives The Wrong Way Across The Bay Bridge There are like 20 fire & rescue vehicles completely blocking the Bay Bridge pic.twitter.com/fQzwt1KlIL— dan (@beverage_cart) November 9, 2014 A Vacaville woman who allegedly hurt three people as she
Arts & Entertainment The Bay Lights Will Disappear For Good In March Unless Backers Raise $4 Million As we reported back in June, the non-profit that's behind the installation and maintenance of the Bay Lights LED installation on the Bay Bridge are gunning to keep the lights up after their
SF News Yet Another Bay Bridge Problem: Potentially Corrosive Water by Eric Wuestewald After rusted suspension cables, critical engineering flaws, a million dollar repainting job, and a substantial bird population, you'd be justified in thinking nothing else could possibly go wrong with the
SF News The Bay Bridge's Bird Problem, By The Numbers State and federal laws intended to protect birds like the double-crested cormorant, which nests on the Bay Bridge, mean that Caltrans must use extreme care as they demolish the old eastern span. After
SF News Video: Idiots Drive 'GoCar' On The Bay Bridge After KRON4's Stanley "People Behaving Badly" Roberts posted video on his Facebook page of a guy riding a bike on the Bay Bridge, he was flooded with other clips of terrible Bay Bridge
SF News Video: Here's A Guy Riding A Bike On The Bay Bridge Sent to KRON4's Stanley Roberts by Gus Roldan, the video clip below appears to depict a cyclist who recently rode in eastbound Bay Bridge traffic, somewhere near the Treasure Island exit. And, yes,
SF News Day Around The Bay: More Bay Bridge Drama Caltrans allegedly silenced engineers who tried to expose cost overruns and construction defects on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, according to an investigative report released today by a state Senate
SF News One More Bay Bridge Flub: $1 Million Repainting Job Required Crews are hard at work blasting away and/or painting over little steel particles which are now causing rust stains on the bright white paint of the one-year-old eastern span of the Bay
SF News Bay Bridge Traffic Bad As Ever, Despite Peak-Hour Toll Hike That $6 toll for crossing the Bay Bridge during morning rush hour has done mostly nothing to lessen traffic congestion during the morning commute. As the mustache boys report, since it was implemented
SF News Another Day, Another Bay Bridge Engineering Flaw There's something else wrong with steel rods that could ultimately cause massive destruction and death on the new span of the Bay Bridge, and it's going to take a few more million dollars
SF News Fastrak Screws 33 People Per Day The imperfect system of photographing license plates and billing people apparently wrongly bills about 33 people per day, or one tenth of one percent of its billings. CBS is on the case, and
SF News Bay Bridge Looky-Loos Are Demolishing Your Commute According to ABC7 today, the rush hour traffic on the Bay Bridge is the worst it's been since the last BART strike. (Which seems like only yesterday.) But it's not an increase in
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Tearing Down The Old Bay Bridge Eastern Span If you've driven over the lovely (and not at all worrisome) new span of the Bay Bridge anytime int he past month or so, you may have noticed the old trestle span to
SF News Caltrans' Latest Bay Bridge Fix: Just Put Some Grease On It After much handwringing over (allegedly) shoddy construction and slip-ups on the new East Span of the Bay Bridge, Caltrans has started implementing a cartoonish-sounding plan to protect the nearly 2,000 rods and
