SF News It's Official: San Francisco And Oakland Are The Worst Cities For Drivers There's another downside to living in the Bay Area. According to a study by WalletHub, San Francisco is now America's worst city for drivers and Oakland is the second worst. What does that
Arts & Entertainment Spelling Of 'DMV' Stumps Bay Area Drivers How do you spell "DMV"? Like so many Jeopardy questions in post-Who Wants to Be a Millionaire America, the answer is in the question! Yet when asked, several Bay Area residents who are
SF News As Bay Area Traffic Congestion Hits All-Time High, Here's A Ranking Of The Worst Commutes We all feel that traffic in the Bay Area are worse than ever, and now the Metropolitan Transportation Commission has the stats to prove it, with the release of their 2014 rankings of
SF News Toll Report: Commutes Getting Bad Even At Earliest Hours “The number of people on the move between 4 and 5 o’clock is up, and up strongly,” Metropolitan Transit Commission spokesman John Goodwin told KRON 4 last month. Echoing that statement — traffic
SF News Sheriff Mirkarimi Says No One Told Him His Driver's License Was Suspended The odd story broke late Monday: embattled first-term San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has been driving on an expired license since February, after an October collision, and didn't even realize it until a
SF News Video: Citizen's Quick Reflexes Prevent Red-Light-Running Muni Driver From Causing Terrible Accident Many of the collisions that San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency operators are involved in aren't Muni's fault: for example, this collision that left two injured after the driver of a car slammed into
SF News Honda Careens Through Macy's, Finally Stops In Men's Department Shoppers at a Bay Area Macy's were in for a shock Wednesday afternoon, when a Honda Fit driven by a woman suffering from a "medical episode" careened through the store, finally crashing in
SF News Police Worry Bike Lane Confusion Is Causing More Accidents It's no secret that, in my esteemed opinion, San Francisco harbors some of the worst drivers in California. (But I'm one too, folks, hence I refuse to own/drive a car!) Which is
SF News Driver Hits Cyclist While Making U-Turn On Market A cyclist was sent to the hospital after getting slammed by a truck driver making a U-turn on Market and Front Tuesday night. The happened a little after 10 p.m. at Market
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Stick This Camera Up Your Ass,' Driver Says To Stanley Roberts Has Elmo shirt guy met his match? Tagging along with Alameda police during a pedestrian and driver safety campaign this week, local treasure Stanley Roberts came face-to-face with a lady who wasn't having
SF News Driver Hits Pedestrian Near Telegraph Hill Another day, another pedestrian hit by a car. According to SF Appeal/BCN, a woman's leg was injured after she was hit by a car at Sansome and Vallejo. "The collision happened at
SF News Seventh & Brannan: Pedestrian Hit-Run In SoMa Here we go again. A car hit a pedestrian in the South of Market neighborhood this morning, and then fled the scene. SF Appeal notes, "The hit-and-run collision was reported shortly before 11
SF News Driver Kills Pedestrian At Potrero And 16th Sad news. Over at 16th and Potrero near the Safeway shopping plaza, a man was struck and killed by a car Saturday night. "The pedestrian, 62-year-old Han Cheng Li, was hit by a
SF News 68-Year-Old Man Crushed To Death On Nob Hill A 68-year-old Martinez man was crushed between two vehicles Friday afternoon on Pacific Street near Polk in San Francisco. He was loading or unloading a vehicle at the time, and a truck that
SF News Alleged Killer Driver ID'd, Posts Bail Jennie Zhu, 58, was arrested on Saturday for allegedly killing a 16-year-old boy and injuring five others after crashing her Mercedes into the rear end of a minivan at Pine and Gough on
SF News Another Car Attempts To Drive Into Muni Tunnel During last night's Pink Saturday festivities in the Castro, this car tried to do what so many others have tried before: drive into the Duboce Portal Muni tunnel. A gaggle of passersby helped
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Drive In San Francisco Without Being A Total Idiot Dear readers, it's time once again for Etiquette Week. Last year we brought you such rulebook gems as How to Conduct Yourself Like a Human in a Bar or Club and How to
SF News CHP Cracking Down on All 'Distracted Drivers' This Week What's that? You're phone's ringing while you're in the car and your headphones are all tangled up? Let it ring, friend. Let it ring. The cops are going to be out in force
SF News New Devil's Slide Tunnels Now Open For Traffic The death-defying stretch of Highway 1 connecting Pacifica with Montara is officially no longer open to thrill-seeking teenagers and disgruntled commuters. Beginning this morning, the new Tom Lantos Tunnels are ushering drivers safely
SF News Four Oakland Young Adults Killed In Car Crash A car crash on a remote Kern County highway resulted in the death of four Oakland teenagers. According to Oakland Tribune, "Kern County officials told The Bakersfield Californian that Malia Moa, David Moa,
SF News Now You Can Text Bad Drivers Using Their License Plate Number San Francisco's penchant for passive-aggressive confrontation got a boost after a new service allowing one to text bad parkers was revealed late last year. It's called CurbTXT and it works like this: drivers
SF News Reminder: Starting Sunday, SF Parking No Longer Free You want to park on Sundays? Well, parking costs. And right here is where you start paying ... in sweat. And in money. Just pay in money, actually. See, starting this Sunday, parking in
SF News Why Are California Gas Prices So Damn High? Californians, it seems, are paying very high prices for gasoline -- an average of $4.668 a gallon, the highest price in the nation, to be exact. But why? Well, that's what Senator
Arts & Entertainment Stanley Roberts Tackles Bad Drivers In The Sunset District Stanley Roberts is a local treasure. He needs his own 30-minute show. (We've said this before, but since no one seems to listen to our sparkling advice about local TV, we won't hold
Arts & Entertainment Please Do Not Drive To America's Cup World Series If you plan on going to the America's Cup World Series, which starts today, please do not drive there. You won't find parking. You just won't. Instead, "walk, bus, bike or take a
