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Overnight high speed chase across Bay Bridge ends in SF... Nov
30/07
An overnight high speed chase had police racing
across the bay overnight. The chase started when police tried to pull
a driver over a driver in Pinole just before 2:00 am - the driver took
off. The CHP ultimately chased the driver across the Bay Bridge into
San Francisco at speeds topping 100 miles an hour. Officers finally
ended the chase by forcing the car to spin out and crash into a parked
car at 22nd and Wisconsin Streets...
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Bay Bridge FasTrak only 10% faster... Nov
28/07
It turns out the highly touted speedup of Bay
Bridge metering lights to accommodate frustrated FasTrak commuters
really hasn't been that speedy after all. In fact, the "speedup" has
only amounted to about a 10 percent improvement for FasTrak drivers...
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Bay Area to get $840M for cargo improvement... Nov
28/07
The California Transportation Commission
approved a funding formula Tuesday that would allocate as much as $840
million to improve freight transportation corridors serving the Bay
Area and Northern California...
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Accident on Golden Gate Bridge stalls traffic... Nov
27/07
Traffic this morning on the Golden Gate Bridge
is heavy following a two-vehicle accident on the southbound side of
the bridge, Sgt. D. Gomez of the Golden Gate Bridge said. An accident
between a black sport utility vehicle and a truck occurred at 6:54
a.m., Gomez said. Emergency crews had to close both sides of the
bridge to transport one of the parties to the hospital, Gomez said...
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Developers, preservationists work together on prewar Richmond site... Nov
24/07
The white frames and glass panels of the
tumbledown greenhouses can just be glimpsed by drivers whizzing south
through Richmond on Interstate 80. At street level, wedged between the
freeway and the BART tracks, more than three dozen old greenhouses,
the former Sakai, Oishi and Endo family nurseries, occupy 14 acres in
a corner of a down-at-the-heels residential neighborhood. Now
derelict, with windows shattered and paint peeling, the nurseries are
a last fragment of a centurylong chapter of Japanese American history
in the East Bay...
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BART Expecting Record Traffic For Holiday... Nov
21/07
Holiday travelers flocking to San Francisco
International and Oakland International airports are expected to board
Bay Area Rapid Transit trains in record-setting numbers this
Thanksgiving Day weekend, BART officials announced Tuesday. Officials
expect 50,000 people to ride BART to and from SFO between today and
Monday, which will mark an 8 percent increase from the same period in
2006....
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Fishermen file class-action lawsuit over oil spill... Nov
21/07
Two fishermen — one based at Fisherman's Wharf
in San Francisco and the other at Pillar Point Harbor — filed a
class-action lawsuit Tuesday against the owners and operators of a
container ship that spilled 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel Nov. 7 after
colliding with the Bay Bridge...
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Different bridge fender design might have averted bay oil spill... Nov
19/07
Five years ago, a tanker carrying more than 11
million gallons of No. 6 oil - the same gooey substance the Cosco
Busan spilled into San Francisco Bay - smacked head-on into the Casco
Bay Bridge in Portland, Maine. The accident in Portland's harbor
caused no damage to the bridge or the tanker, and unlike the Cosco
Busan's crash into the Bay Bridge, not a drop of oil was spilled. The
reason, transportation officials say, was a state-of-the-art fender
system designed to protect ships as well as the bridge....
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Consequences Continue To Grow In Bay Area Fuel Spill... Nov
18/07
The economic, environmental, and political
consequences of the Hanjin container ship Cosco Busan hitting the San
Francisco Bay Bridge continued to mount last week as cleanup crews hit
the beaches to sop up as much of the 58,000 gallons of spilled bunker
fuel as possible...
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Coast Guard monitors didn't warn ship's crew... Nov
15/07
Coast Guard workers who monitor ship traffic in
San Francisco Bay did not warn the crew of the Cosco Busan that it was
about to sideswipe the base of a Bay Bridge tower last week, or even
that the ship was near the obstacle, federal investigators said
Thursday...
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Road work to close lanes on Bay Bridge... Nov
15/07
Caltrans will be performing road work on the
eastbound direction of the Bay Bridge through the morning and early
afternoon, intermittently closing lanes during that time, the
department said. The work will be done between Fourth Street in San
Francisco and the Oakland side Interstate 80. Various lanes will be
shut down as the work progresses, Caltrans said....
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Pair of motorcycle crashes slow bay bridge commute... Nov
14/07
A pair of motorcycle crashes occurring within a
mile of each other near the San Francisco end of the bay bridge has
slowed westbound traffic...
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Bay Bridge Tower Vulnerable to Another Collision... Nov
13/07
The Bay Bridge support tower struck by a
container ship last week could suffer damage if hit again. The fender
structure that protects the actual bridge ripped apart when the Cosco
Busan scraped the bridge, and has yet to be replaced. The accident
still seems incredible to some in the Coast Guard. "These days with
GPS, with electronic chart plotters, with all the electronic
navigation technology we have...
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Traffic to keep flowing as Nimitz rebuilt... Nov
11/07
It seemed improbable: Caltrans sought to
replace the hulking viaducts and offramp tentacles of the Bay Bridge
western approach without shutting down the bridge for long periods. In
the past few years, engineers have proven that it could be done.
Building a temporary bypass here, cutting a slice of viaduct off
there, in carefully planned stages, construction crews have been able
to demolish and rebuild in cramped San Francisco as traffic snaked
past them....
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Traffic moving slowly past I-80 crash in Richmond... Nov
8/07
Commuters heading to the Bay Bridge toward San
Francisco have been slowed by a two-car crash this morning, the
California Highway Patrol said. A Honda Civic and sedan collided
around 7:55 a.m. east of Cutting Boulevard on westbound Interstate 80,
the CHP said. The crash initially blocked the right lane but has since
been cleared to the shoulder....
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SF man: setting kids on fire was an accident... Nov
7/07
A San Francisco man accused of setting his
former girlfriend and her two children on fire in 2003 testified today
that he was in love with the children and had never even imagined
killing them. Mark Fregia, 39, has been charged with two counts of
murder and one count each of attempted murder, arson causing great
bodily injury, aggravated mayhem, kidnapping and carjacking in
connection with the Dec. 18, 2003, fire on Interstate Highway 80...
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Changes Take Effect Tuesday At Bay Bridge Toll Plaza... Nov
5/07
Get ready for a major change coming to the Bay
Bridge Tuesday as the median lights get overhauled to help FasTrak
users. Already this morning, you can see brand new dividers in place
-- separating the FasTrak 'have's' and the 'have not's'. The real test
is going to come Tuesday morning, when roughly 42,000 commuters come
across the Bay Bridge toll plaza...
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Bay Bridge tinkering with FasTrak lanes to speed up commute... Nov
3/07
FasTrak users will get the green light faster
at the Bay Bridge beginning next week as bridge officials continue
their campaign to drive more motorists to pay their tolls
electronically. In an experiment to see if morning backups in the
FasTrack lanes can be alleviated, bridge officials will speed up the
metering lights serving dedicated FasTrak lanes starting Tuesday....
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