SF News Your Commute: More Accidents All but one lane of I-80 westbound are blocked, after a woman driving an infant lost control of her car and flipped over by the University Avenue exit this morning. The woman has
SF News Your Commute: And You Thought Your Job Was Bad Man, whose job do we not want this week? BART spokesman Linton Johnson's. Poor Linton had to do yet another round of ritual apologies after a massive computer failure crashed BART for about
SF News Your Commute: On The Bright Side, No Bomb Threats (Yet) Commuters cannot get a break -- it's enough to make you answer those ads you see tacked up on telephone poles, "earn money while working at home." Today's traffic woes included a fatal
SF News Your Commute: Are We SFist Jon Today? Are we SFist Jon today or what? Not only do we feel slightly cranky about this new Bonds on Bonds TV show (it should at least be Barry Bonds talking about low-risk investment
SF News Your Commute: TGIF Thank goodness it's Fridays, all you folks who don't work at home. Boy, it's been an almost comically-bad week for commuting: doesn't the Gitmo Montgomery shutdown seem like it happened ages ago? Well,
SF News Your Commute: Cows on the Highway It was, in a word, iyick. Also, in food related traffic jams, a traffic jam was caused on 880 yesterday when a truck carrying wine toppled near I-880, forcing a three hour closure
SF News Your Commute: Sucked Like It's Never Sucked Before We were about a hundred feet from the Millbrae station this morning when the train stopped. Then started to go back to the airport. The conductor announced over the loudspeaker that there was
SF News Your Commute: (No) BART Bomb For once, a BART delay not caused by "switching problems" at Millbrae -- those of you trying to cross the Bay this morning probably heard the repeated announcements about "police activity" at the
SF News Your Commute: Road Rage Kills Folks, you've just gotta learn to let it go: today's fourth-runner-up in the Great SFist Blotter Crime News Gathering (i.e., a frantic search of all the area news sites to find something
SF News Your Commute: On The Blotter Lots of death and transit events to report today: Did you hear the helicopters whirring overhead in the Mission last night? The SFPD came in full force after reports of a serious shooting
SF News Your Commute: Fire On The Bart , we thought, as we stared blankly out of our downtown office window this morning. That's an awful lot of cop cars speeding down the street. Then we got an email from SFist Karen,
SF News Your Commute: Time For New Shock Absorbers It's not just that you're bad drivers, folks! DPW says that over half of SF needs to be repaved and it's going to need $340 million to do it. DPW says per year,
SF News Your Commute: Runaway Train Caltrain 314 hit and killed a woman this morning, stopping train traffic in both directions for more than 90mn. We were on the train, and were allowed to leave at about 9am in
SF News Your Commute: A New Bart Stop Add 15 cents more to your BART card -- Bernal Heights, Baja Noe Valley (what a name), and Upper Mission neighborhood advocates are trying to get BART to revive its 2002 plan to
misc SFist Rants: A Modest Public Transportation Proposal While having to go through all the rigmarole of hopping on Caltrains and being at the least fifteen minutes late kind of sucks, what really chaps our hide is that we have a
SF News Your Commute: Bad Day For The VTA Man, today's not the VTA's day. The San Jose light rail was shut down for about an hour and a half to clear out the carcass of a truck making an illegal left
SF News Your Commute: Fastrak Lanes Caltrans is warning us in advance that it's going to open up two more Fastrak-only lanes on the Bay Bridge. Why the advance notice? Well, because only 1/3 of drivers have Fastraks,
SF News Your Commute: Train Meets Truck. Lying brochure: it went through with a big noise and a big thump at the impact which sent a sharp jolt through our herniated back. Then a cloud of sawdust, due to hitting
SF News Your Commute: Dum-Dum Sucker We've all thought about it -- but who knew someone had the Easter Eggs to actually go and ? CHP arrested a Petaluma man Wednesday on 101 in Marin for dressing up a dummy
SF News Your Commute: Bart Goes 24 Don't you hate that 2 a.m. feeling when you think, ? Well, for one brief shining weekend, you can! BART's going to be experimenting with 24-hour service next weekend, from the evening of
SF News Your Commute: The Triplets of Berkeley-ville Well, at least it wasn't in the Transbay Tube -- a woman went into labor on the steps of the Berkeley BART stop today. With triplets. Watch where you're walking this afternoon! People
SF News Your Commute: BART Makes a Boo-Boo So, to make up for it, they've decided to add service and add the numbers of trains put on each run. It won't be back like it was before and people not going
SF News Your Commute: Just Keeps Getting Worse As if a burning truck full of beer wasn't enough, the Bay Area's Metropolitan Transit Comission has just released numbers showing that local commutes are taking 4% longer than before, and ranked the
SF News What Goes Up, Sometimes Doesn't Come Down Of course, you could always not pay. To protest the fare increases, local activists have been calling for a fare strike. For the past several months, they've been handing out flyers, posting posters,
SF News Your Commute: We're Waiting.... ....and waiting.... and waiting.... and there's still no word on whether we're having a BART strike or not. Even getting bored of hitting "refresh" on the sfgate.com window, and as you guys
