SF News Even Moving Around SF Is Costly: The Bay Area Has Some of the Most Expensive Commutes in the U.S. The Bay Area is setting records once again, but not for anything good. On a list of the ten cities in the United States with the most expensive commutes, half of the list is taken up by cities in California, and four of the ten are in the Bay Area.
SF News Exploded Minivan Causes Major Backup on Westbound Bay Bridge A vehicle on fire caused one of the first major traffic jams of the pandemic on the Bay Bridge Friday morning, with SF-bound congestion backed up all the way to Emeryville.
SF News BART's Mystery Voltage Problem Appears To Be Back, Snarls Friday Commute The mysterious electrical problem in which power surges were doing damage to BART's aging fleet of trains last year appears to have returned, and once again train cars were damaged Friday by surges
SF News Overcrowded BART Trains Likely Causing Drop In Ridership, Ironically Despite all the news about the BART system being strained at the seams by population growth and a crush of riders at peak commute hours, overall BART ridership has actually been declining since
SF News Major Mudslide Shuts Down I-80 Near Auburn In Both Directions A mudslide Friday morning caused the complete shutdown of eastbound and westbound I-80, leading to some serious delays and a detour for those who are Tahoe-bound. As ABC 7 reports, all truck traffic
SF News Fatality At Church Street Station Causes Major Muni Snarl At Rush Hour Lots of unhappy #sfmuni riders at WP. Inbound trains backed up to St Francis Cir. Outbound platform packed. @sfmta_muni #MuniMetro #munifail pic.twitter.com/WG1XuCEJm5— Paul Lanzi (@planzi) January 12, 2017 Around
SF News Downed Tree Blocks 19th Avenue Tunnel, Avoid Area For The Afternoon ALERT: SR-1/19th Ave blocked by fallen tree n/o MacArthur Tunnell. One lane open s/b, no lanes n/b. Expect delays. pic.twitter.com/9I2al43tEk— CHP Marin (@CHPMarin) December 19, 2016
SF News Early Morning Dakota Pipeline Protest Blocks Traffic In Civic Center, Mid-Market Marking a nationwide day of action to keep attention on the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline project, hundreds of protesters gathered outside City Hall early Tuesday and marched down Market Street calling
SF News One Woman's Shoe, Stuck In An Escalator, Causes Major Rush-Hour Clusterf**k At Embarcadero BART One woman's shoe, presumably a spiky heel, got stuck in a BART escalator Monday morning, leading a domino effect of platform crowding that forced rush-hour trains to skip Embarcadero Station. One imagines this
SF News BART Experiencing Systemwide Delays Due To Equipment Problems In Daly City And Richmond Blame it on the rain, maybe, but a power outage and subsequent equipment problem between Colma and Daly City stations is causing systemwide delays on the BART system. BART spokesperson Alicia Trost explains
SF News Report: Bay Area Traffic Up 70 Percent In 6 Years We get further confirmation today that traffic on Bay Area freeways has jumped a staggering 70 percent since 2010. A report released by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission brings us the unwelcome truth, along
SF News [Update] Suspicious Rice Cooker Shuts Down South Van Ness Causing Huge Commuter Headache Hearing S Van Ness is closed btw Mission and Market due to police activity. pic.twitter.com/cg4YxhMCfM— Alexis Smith (@AlexisABC7) September 22, 2016 The sound of a news chopper overheard in the
SF News Early Bird Gets The Smog: Traffic Now Worst On Bay Bridge Between 5 And 6 AM Drivers coming into the city from the East Bay have been pushing the peak of rush hour earlier and earlier according to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. CBS 5 reports that for years the
SF News Highway 101 Near SFO May Get Pay-To-Play Express Lane Officials are studying the potential impacts of adding a carpool lane on a notoriously congested section of Highway 101 on the Peninsula that would double as a toll lane for single drivers. As
SF News Desperate BART Riders Wrestle Broken Door Shut To Keep Friday Commute From Being Ruined During the already cramped, slow, and frustrating East Bay-bound commute Friday evening, several BART riders took matters into their own hands after a Pittsburg/Bay Point-bound train was about to be taken out
SF News BART Delays, Crowding To Go On Indefinitely As Mystery Voltage Spike Remains Unsolved The problem that began Wednesday when 50 BART cars were jolted out of service due to a voltage spike near the end of the Pittsburg/Bay Point line will not be solved quickly,
SF News SFPD Chases Suspect Through BART Tunnels Monday Night Causing Major Delays What Embarcadero #BART station looks like when there is a delay. Happy to be off the train. pic.twitter.com/4ObYTmpml7— Sally K (@Sally_K) March 10, 2015 Were you stuck on an
SF News [Update] Shooting On 580 In Oakland Shuts Down Two Eastbound Lanes, One Wounded Oakland: Shooting EB 580. 5 bullet holes in one car. Man wounded. 1 man in custody.#mapit pic.twitter.com/axXlejAEDQ— alan wang (@AlanWangABC7) March 5, 2015 A shooting this afternoon on eastbound
SF News BART Realizes Downtown Stations Are Rush-Hour Nightmares, Will Spend $400,000 Studying The Problem Since BART loves to spend money studying its problems, the transit agency is going to be spending $410,000 on a study to figure out what they can do about over-crowding in Embarcadero
SF News Getting On BART At Rush Hour A Tighter Squeeze Than Ever Have you been a sweatier, crankier, even more tightly packed sardine during your morning and evening BART commutes lately? Obviously, you're not alone, and part of the problem is BART's aging train fleet,
SF News Muni, BART Broken In Various Ways This Morning [Updated] You probably already know this if you are currently a) at work and extra-grumpy after an extra-slow commute, or b) late for work because of the extra-slow commute, but Muni broke in several
SF News San Francisco's Population Boom and How It Impacts You By some estimates, at least 30,000 extra people have moved into San Francisco since 2010. Where are we putting them all? That's still being worked out, clearly. But in the meantime, we
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 Unions Have Big Leverage If BART Strike Resumes BART workers are threatening an even longer strike if contract negotiations can't be settled by the early August extended deadline, and they've got a major piece of leverage in their back pocket, codified
SF News Foolish Big-Rig Driver Smashes Into Golden Gate Toll Plaza This is what the truck into Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza incident looked like this morning, per district spokeswoman pic.twitter.com/pCuxWDgAtg— Ted Goldberg (@TedrickG) July 2, 2013 The driver of a
