SF News And Now For Some Bikes Have you been following the drama with the city's bike plan? It's BANANAS, and there's no end in sight. Basically: the city wants to paint bike lanes and allow bikes on trains and
SF News Your Commute: Cars There was a huge accident on eastbound I-80 today, near Pinole -- a five-car pileup. It originally started when a Civic spun out in the fast lane and was hit by a Camry.
SF News North Beach is Italian for Piazza Right now the problem with the piazza is... drum roll please... money. Or more like not knowing where it'll come from. Estimated price is somewhere around a half million, which doesn't sound like
SF News Crash Into Everywhere Today in San Francisco, there was a hit-and-run that left one dead and three hurt. This all occurred late last night, around 12:30 AM when a minivan traveling north on Laguna Street
SF News And Speaking of Accidents and MUNI... Anyways, the accident occurred at Fourth and Howard and at least one person was injured. According to reports, a utility truck broadsided somebody in a compact car and then one of the cars
SF News Crash Into Carpoolers The problem seems to be the speeds of the cars in each lane. In carpool lanes, traffic moves at slightly normal speed. That's the whole point of them. But cars looking to dodge
SF News BRT Not BART The plan, called BRT (couldn't they have chosen something slightly different from another mode of pub trans in the area? All this stuff is confusing enough without having to someday contemplate a BRT
SF News Your Commute: Bad Day On BART That wasn't all, though -- while the downtown trains were jerking their way eastward, the Millbrae trains were then hit with the dreaded . So basically, no one's going anywhere today. Interestingly, this is
SF News The Warriors: Opening night Dujuan Wagner, Adonal Foyle, and Zarko Cabarkapa are riding the pine in suits tonight. For the opposition Lakers, Kobe won't play, and Phil Jackson, Kwame Brown, and Aaron McKie, and Chris Mihm may
SF News Your Commute: Down on the Upside First up is MUNI which is now using the 1 California to test out a new system to ensure busses are on time. Why the 1 California? Because Gavin got in a tiff
SF News The Warriors: Lighten up Francis Easy, Nellie, easy baby. It's early yet. Tuesday night, the Warriors came from behind in the Oracle to beat the Portland Trailblazers relatively easily, 108-96. But in the post-game news conference coach Don
SF News Your Commute: Friday Woes Officer Cakebread is all over the news today -- earlier, he came to our attention when he was reporting that a sideswiped moving van flipped over on the westbound lanes of Highway 92
SF News Your Commute: Oracle Open World, Oracle Closed Streets Also, all the crosswalk lights have been extended an extra 10 seconds in all directions. Who knew you could pay the city to do that? We're going to take up a collection and
SF News We Said, Now We've Got Our Magic Bus The main component of the plan is to have a bus-only lane for the buses. Obviously, the thinking is that one of the main things that holds up buses is traffic and evil
SF News Odds and Ends Next up: Bush Ter Down! As promised, those wacky World Can't Wait kids tied up traffic on Market Street protesting the war. As our waggish commenters noted, it did indeed rain -- but
SF News Bush Ter Down! This is part of an international 190-city protest against the Iraq War (with 70 of the cities are in states that voted for Bush in 2004). They've been organizing on MySpace, and distributing
SF News Fire At Fifth And Harrison Tough few days in SoMa -- the mysterious power outage yesterday and today, a four-alarm fire above the Olympic restaurant at Fifth and Clara that's required the CHP to close down the Fifth
SF News Memo to Self: Avoid Bay Bridge this Weekend Anyways, two westbound lanes will be closed from the toll plaza to the middle of the suspension span between late tonight and tomorrow morning from 11 PM to 8 AM. The Sterling, 5th
SF News Blackout! We don't know much of the details as there doesn't seem to be a lot of news on it out there right now. We just know we were halfway through reading Deadspin when
SF News Pink Jam Because nothing says potent political protest like causing traffic, the gals at Code Pink marched along the Golden Gate Bridge today disrupting traffic. Of course, this is one of those things that turn
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Specs' So, um. We really want to like North Beach. It's got its fancy European panache, a tribe of passport-holding Italians and you can get a real cup of espresso, but sadly there are
SF News North Beach is Italian For Even Less Fun After cracking down on the North Beach Street Festival and the Jazz Fest, it looks like the Powers that Be are all set to crack down on North Beach itself. At issue is
SF News Your Commute: Tying Up Traffic There's a report that a MUNI bus managed to snarl all the traffic on 580 after getting in an accident with a big rig? Sure, we can believe a MUNI bus tied up
misc East Bay: Animals Gone Wild Contra Costa Times columnist, Sarah Jacobson, writes about a raccoon cocktail party on the front porch of her Pittsburg home in the wee hours of the morning.And while we would disagree with
SF News Step Lively, SF There's a totally fascinating article about this year's traffic deaths in San Francisco today, by the inimitable Rachel Gordon. At about the 2/3rd mark for the year, we've had 29 traffic collision
