SF News Your Commute: On Fire. Seriously There was an evacuation of trains on the Fremont and Dublin-Pleasanton BART lines after a fire at a substation knocked out power to part of the system. The fire started at about 10:
SF News Your Commute: Fight! We can't decide if we're sorry we missed this, or if we're extremely grateful that we take BART to work in the mornings. So around 7:30 a.m. this morning, an SUV
SF News Your Commute: Sucky We've also had reports that MUNI was having problems downtown this morning. Best part of a problem downtown is that it affects every MUNI train so everybody is screwed. Nothing like shared misery.
SF News Your Commute: Onwards and Upwards to Phase II MOLRP is a two-year project to replace the overhead electrical lines in the subways. Phase I fixed the electrical lines in the underground from the Embarcadero to the Church Station and Phase 2
SF News Your Commute: One If By Land, Two If By Sea If you were planning on taking the Oakland/Alameda Ferry, officials are recommending you take the Alameda Harbor Bay Ferry which obviously goes to Alameda. Thus the name.
SF News Your Commute: You're Bumming if You're Going Home on the Bay Bridge... Traffic was stopped to make way for ambulances and other emergency related cars. Bay Bridge commuters, we feel for you.
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Riding The T Third The T-Third is running in beta from now until April 1-- it's only running on weekends and every twenty minutes (though we waited about 45 minutes), but it's free if you get on
Arts & Entertainment There's Going To Be Some Protesting Tonight Downtown is looking a little shut down today as those wacky Trotskyites broadly-arrayed leftists at A.N.S.W.E.R. are giving their answer to the Bush Surge (hey, that sounds like
SF News Your Commute: One Dollar More While the extra money will go to retrofitting, the new snazzy Bay Bridge suspension bridge redesign is what triggered the increase in the first place -- you may recall that when Schwarzenegger tried
SF News Delays: Not Just For BART Anymore The other MUNI rail-line to experience trouble was the J which this morning also went down. The trouble there was not wind related, but an issue with the "pantograph." The pantograph is not
SF News Your Commute: BART Gets Off the Good Foot Anyways, the cause was actually a cover board, the metal that covers the third rail, came lose at the West Oakland station around 7:15 so they could only run one train at
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 Your Commute: Unflappable Look how disappointed this YouTube poster is that no one paid attention to him sitting on the ceiling of the BART. (3:06, but half of the clip is just the same footage
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 This Week In Your Commute News First we turn to the water where an expected eight ferry terminals are to be built in the coming years to service all of those commuters who've moved far, far away from San
SF News Your Commute: Eighty-Sixing the 880 The problem was that a large steel plate placed on the highway was moved off of where it was placed. Naturally, the repair work was to move the steel plate back to where
SF News Bad Weekend for MUNI Between our really bad hangover and our fantasy football loses we thought we had a bad weekend but MUNI? They had a really bad weekend. After an attempt was made to replace some
SF News Your Commute: Look Out Below! The bus driver, driving towards the Castro, was tooling up the steep Noe Street hill between 29th and Valley when the electric bus was blocked by the offending garbage truck. The truck driver
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 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 SF Cable Cars: Not Climbing Halfway to the Stars Today Tourists looking for that oh so wonderul, oh so expensive cable car ride today were disappointed to discover that the Hyde Street and Mason Street cable cars were down this morning and still
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 BART Comes Up With a Great Idea Why do we like this idea? Because usually when a transit system or government says they need to find new ways for funding, they form a committe and hire a bunch of consultants
