SF News SF Will Preemptively Close Roads and Reroute Some Muni Lines For Super Bowl Celebrations Caltrans will close some highway off-ramps in SF Sunday night, as well as reroute some buses ahead of expected Super Bowl celebrations in the Mission District.
SF News Get Ready For Crazy SF Traffic Sunday, With Highway Off-Ramp Closures and Bus Line Changes For The 49ers Game Streets around popular celebration spots in the Mission could close if the 49ers win, prompting Muni service shifts, and south SF freeway ramps could also close to reroute heavy traffic.
SF News Twenty Lake Tahoe-Area Bears Have Been Hit by Cars in the Last Month Alone A troublesome trend in Lake Tahoe, where “40 to 50” bears have been hit by cars this summer, with 20 of these collisions happening in just the last month.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Thursday Could Be a Real Cluster In SF, Traffic-Wise Thursday afternoon could bring a bunch of car traffic to two ends of San Francisco; Oakland's City Council has voted to end the eviction moratorium; and the NBA has suspended Draymond Green for Game 3.
SF News There Are New Express Toll Lanes On 101 Between San Bruno and Redwood City, Starting Today You can cruise through traffic in the new express lanes that opened Friday morning on U.S. 101, and it’s free for carpools of three or more people, but it’s a $500 fine if you’re in that lane without a FasTrak.
SF News Sunday’s 49ers Traffic In Santa Clara ‘Worse Than Any Time In Levi’s History’ Eight and a half years into the Levi’s Stadium era, Santa Clara and the 49ers seemingly still have not figured out the traffic situation near the stadium, and fans and sports media alike care calling Sunday’s game-day mess the “worst traffic jam in Levi’s Stadium history.”
SF News Hey, Whatever Happened to That Downtown SF Congestion Pricing Plan? ‘It’s Been Paused,’ SFMTA Says As the state of New York barrels ahead with congestion pricing to battle climate change, a similar plan for San Francisco has been shelved, likely to the relief of retailers and small business owners.
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 An Overturned Tractor Trailer Shut Down I-80 Monday Night, Caused Hours of Traffic Westbound I-80 is back open Tuesday morning after an overturned tractor trailer shut down all lanes near San Pablo Monday night for over an hour.
SF News Caltrans Researching Redesign Ideas for SR37, Ahead of Projected Climate Change Road Flooding If you’ve driven on State Route 37, you likely know how regularly the Bay Area commuter throughway experiences major traffic backup. Now, the State of California plans to revamp the Highway 37 corridor through projects expected to cost over a quarter-billion dollars.
SF News Brace For Intense Traffic Around SF This Weekend As Fleet Week Collides With the Giants Playoffs You may want to avoid getting in a car if at all possible in San Francisco this weekend — and you'll definitely want to avoid the Marina and downtown at all costs unless you yourself are going to a Giants game.
SF News Solo Crash On Bay Bridge Ties Up Westbound Traffic After Occupants Abandon Car Westbound traffic was backed up on the Bay Bridge Thursday afternoon after a grey Toyota crashed into a bridge railing and the occupants all got out and ran away to Treasure Island.
SF News Lombard Street Sucks Right Now Because of Caltrans Paving Work — Don't Use It Getting to or coming from the Golden Gate Bridge became a royal pain in the ass during daytime hours this week as Caltrans started its paving work on the section of Lombard Street between 101 and Van Ness. You should avoid this route at all costs.
SF News Bay Area Traffic Is Fully Back, and On One East Bay Bridge It's Worse Than Pre-COVID People have been saying it for a couple months now: Traffic around the Bay Area is pretty much back to pre-pandemic levels. But what transportation planners warned of last year appears to be coming to pass — it's going to be worse than before until BART use ramps back up.
SF News Two-Year Construction Traffic Nightmare to Begin Monday on 19th Avenue It’s real name is the 19th Avenue Combined City Project, but Sunset District residents and motorists will probably have other words for this water- and sewer-line overhaul slated to last until 2023.
SF News ‘Go Slow’ Protests For Breonna Taylor to Possibly Block Bay Bridge and Golden Gate as Word Spreads On Social Media Protesters were being encouraged to “pick a bridge” on Thursday and “go slow” in order to bring further attention to the lack of justice in the police killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville — and the Dumbarton Bridge is being targeted as well.
SF Politics SF Transportation Officials Are Talking About Downtown Congestion Pricing Again, Way Ahead of Traffic Returning Proposals to institute congestion pricing — essentially tolls — in downtown SF date back to at least 2008, and a new one is back on the table.
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 Study Predicts Post-Lockdown Traffic In Bay Area Will Be a Nightmare As everyone readjusts to leaving the house more often and perhaps going back to work, they may not feel safe riding public transit or carpooling for a while, which could make for some ugly commute experiences for months to come.
SF News Injury Accident Causes Severe Traffic on Northbound 280 in SF A collision involving an overturned vehicle and multiple injuries has shut down all northbound lanes of 280 near the 101 split in San Francisco Friday morning.
SF News ’Carmageddon’ Predicted To Snarl 101-Alemany Boulevard Area Much Of Next Summer When even Caltrans is referring to a construction event as “Carmageddon,” you can expect miles-long traffic jams, and this one’s scheduled to disrupt travel on the 101 around Portola next summer.
SF News Eastbound Bay Bridge Traffic Backed Up Into SF Following Rollover Crash If you're reverse-commuting to Oakland or otherwise need to get to the East Bay this morning, you may want to consider BART. Three of five eastbound lanes have been blocked since around 8 a.m.
SF News SFMTA To Refund Drivers For Overpaid, Double-Charged Traffic Citations And Tickets This is going to sound like one of those class-action lawsuit radio ads, but: have you paid the SFMTA for a parking, street cleaning, or traffic ticket recently? It's possible you could be
SF News Trifecta Of Fleet Week, Open World, Hardly Strictly Promises To Make SF Traffic Even More Of A Nightmare This Week A trio of events across the city will bring well over a million people to SF this week, making area traffic — a mess even on the best days — even worse than usual. Good
SF News AC Transit Bus Crash In SoMa Injures At Least Four @ktvu bus crash on fremont st. Not sure if there are injuries. pic.twitter.com/QcYm6zfVz3— Art Perrin (@Gimpsly) September 27, 2017 An AC Transit bus traveling on Fremont Street around 9:20
