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> SF Weekend Events To Affect Buses, Traffic ... April 18/08
For those attempting to enjoy their weekends in the city, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency announced event-related traffic and transit impacts that could effect residents and visitors. Beginning at 10 p.m. Friday night, Bay Bridge construction will cause Second Street between Bryant and Harrison streets to be closed to traffic, Muni officials said. The street will reopen Sunday at 1:30 p.m. and the 10-Townsend bus line will be affected... cont...

> Suspect flees police on i-80, attempts carjacking ... April 16/08
A San Francisco man who fled police on a stolen motorcycle Monday in Fairfield and later attempted a carjacking was soon arrested, police said, the bike recovered and a loaded firearm seized. Curtis Johnson, 23, was booked into Solano County Jail on suspicion of felony evasion, grand theft auto, possession of a loaded concealed handgun and resisting arrest. Around 11:50 a.m., California Highway Patrol officers saw the speeding biker on Interstate 80 near American Canyon Road and attempted to pull him over, police said. But he fled, and a chase began... cont...

> Road rage runs rampant on Bay Area highways ... April 14/08
As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, a man driving on Interstate Highway 280 was shot from a passing car. The man who died, Luis Solari, died in front of his kids in the car. His offense: He cut someone off. The worst part is that this wasn't the first on Bay Area freeways this month. A woman was shot and killed April 3 on Interstate Highway 80 near Pinole, and a man was shot along the same stretch of freeway April 1. An arrest has been made in the former incident... cont...

> New Bay Bridge approach opens ... April 12/08
After a half-decade of frustrating twists, turns and closures on the western approaches to the Bay Bridge, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stood atop the more earthquake-worthy structure Friday to announce that it would be completed seven months early. The act signals the opening early today of the stretch of Interstate 80 that feeds traffic onto and off of the Bay Bridge, perhaps the busiest traffic link in the region after the MacArthur Maze in Oakland. The project began in 2003... cont...

> Voter-Approved Bonds to Provide $825 Million For Northern California Freight Projects ... April 11/08
The $3 billion slate of highway, rail and seaport improvements approved for funding today by the California Transportation Commission includes $825 million for 14 projects in Northern California. Six of the 14 Northern California goods-movement projects approved by the CTC are in the Bay Area. These include improvements at the Port of Oakland, relocation of the Interstate 80 Cordelia truck scales and the addition of an eastbound truck-climbing lane on Interstate 580 over the Altamont Pass. A complete list of TCIF projects is available on the CTC Web site at www.catc.ca.gov ... cont...

> Motorist shot, killed on Interstate 280 ... April 10/08
For the second time in less than a week, a motorist on a Bay Area freeway was shot and killed. On Wednesday night, a man driving a burgundy Honda with two children in the back seat was fired upon by a person riding in another car on Interstate 280 in San Francisco. The children were not injured. The 6 p.m. shooting occurred in the southbound lanes between the Alemany and Monterey boulevards exits. Last Thursday, a woman driving a car on Interstate 80 in Pinole was shot and killed... cont...

> New west link for Bay Bridge up this weekend ... April 9/08
Motorists tired of the snaky freeway approach from downtown San Francisco to the Bay Bridge will be alleviated of the muddling traffic route this weekend when a newly repaired permanent structure of the bridge’s west approach is opened. The approach, a one-mile stretch of Interstate 80 connecting Fifth Street to the Bay Bridge’s west anchorage at Beale Street, had been substituted with a temporary structure since March 2007, Caltrans spokesman Bart Ney said. Construction workers had been repairing the original edifice as part of the bridge’s seismic retrofit project.The repaired approach will officially open to traffic sometime late Friday night or early Saturday morning... cont...

> Police seek motive in slaying of woman on I-80 ... April 5/08
Rhonda White had hoped to go bowling with her boyfriend and three of their friends in Pinole. But when they found that some of them had forgotten to bring socks, they drove to her home in Richmond to get some. They never made it. As White, 25, drove west on Interstate 80 around 9:15 p.m. Thursday, someone pulled up alongside her car and opened fire, killing her. Her boyfriend, Donnaray Allison, 24, of Richmond, was critically wounded. No arrests have been made. Police are trying to determine whether someone in White's car was the target of the gunfire, the second such incident on that freeway this week... cont...

> One dead, one critically injured in Richmond freeway shooting ... April 3/08
A woman is dead and a man is critically injured after they were hit by gunfire in a car-to-car shooting on a busy freeway in the San Francisco Bay area. The shooting around 9 p.m. tonight has closed down all lanes of westbound Interstate 80 in Richmond, where the victims' car came to a stop against the center median. It's unclear when the freeway will be reopened. California Highway Patrol spokesman Sam Morgan says the victims were in a car with three other people when someone in another car opened fire on them... cont...