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California Department of Transportation

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Judge Sides with Tree Huggers Over Highway-Widening Project

    The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) must reassess how its planned road-expansion project along Highway 101 could truly harm the surrounding redwood trees, a judge ruled.Environmental groups filed a lawsuit last week in San Francisco, hoping to stop Caltrans from widening the two- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Bay Bridge Back Open

    ​The upper deck of the Bay Bridge is back open this morning, 24 hours ahead of schedule. This is newsworthy if for no other reason than the fact that Caltrans never does anything on time, much less ahead of schedule. But Caltrans says it was the good weather that motivated the speedy construction ... More >>

  • News

    November 30, 2011

    The Old Gray Mare: At 75, the Bay Bridge Remains Hardworking and Overlooked

    ​The upper deck of the Bay Bridge is back open this morning, 24 hours ahead of schedule. This is newsworthy if for no other reason than the fact that Caltrans never does anything on time, much less ahead of schedule. But Caltrans says it was the good weather that motivated the speedy construction ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    "Emperor Norton Bridge" Turns 75

    The man, the bridge, the resolution...​Other than partially collapsing, falling apart, and swelling into a costly boondoggle, San Franciscans don't think much about the Bay Bridge. For 75 years now it's been an ugly duckling and an afterthought. So most of us probably don't remember that our Board ... More >>

  • News

    July 27, 2011

    Caltrain's Draconian Clipper Enforcement Leaves Riders Stranded

    The man, the bridge, the resolution...​Other than partially collapsing, falling apart, and swelling into a costly boondoggle, San Franciscans don't think much about the Bay Bridge. For 75 years now it's been an ugly duckling and an afterthought. So most of us probably don't remember that our Board ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    Caltrain Conductor Accused of Soliciting Sexual Favors From Minor

    Conductor Busted​Ricardo Arias Cano, a conductor who worked on Caltrain, was arrested recently on suspicion of propositioning two female passengers for sex, one who was a minor. The 60-year-old South San Francisco man has since been banned from Caltrain property. According to Steve Fein, who works ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    Doyle Drive Privatization Deal Approved by Judge

    http://woodrowwilson.xanga.comIs this Caltrans' next big expenditure? ​Caltrans today rushed to sign a contract to fund a section of a new Golden Gate Bridge off-ramp in the Presidio with the help of foreign investors. The move came immediately after a judge lifted a restraining order blocking the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    Caltrain Joins Twitter -- @Caltrain Handle Already Taken

    Look! An @Caltrain ... er, @CTWkendBullets!​In hopes of pulling riders off the internet and onto a baby bullet, Caltrain has broken out Twitter and Facebook accounts. Sadly for the rail service, however, the train has already left the station when it comes to snatching up the Twitter handle @Caltr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    Caltrain Suffering a Slow Monday Morning

    ​ "Dead in the water" isn't a term one often hears in reference to a train, but it did come up this morning with regard to Caltrain. A southbound train broke down in Menlo Park, forcing its passengers to stumble off and hop the train behind it, says Caltrain spokeswoman Christine Dunn. The switcho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    AC Transit Approves Massive Service Cuts

    LesnovetNow you see it ... soon you won't ​Hefty service cuts is the order of the day in Bay Area transit circles, sadly. Muni came up with some one-time monetary influxes to undo some -- but not all -- of its service cuts. Caltrain may cut its service by half.  And, yesterday, AC Transit fol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2010

    Baylinks: Arson, Lake Tahoe, Momblock

    Welcome to Berkeley. The times, they are a-changin'!​Tenants believe apartment fire was an act of revenge [Mission Mission]U.C. Berkeley ranked among most "military friendly" schools. No spitting. [U.C. Berkeley News Center]Restoration of Lake Tahoe is flowing smoothly [SF Gate]

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    Manure Truck Dumps 20 Tons of You-Know-What on I-580

    Peeee-eeeew...​What do you call 20 tons of manure dumped in Livermore? An improvement. Sorry, it's a variation of a joke one year older than God's parents. But, on the serious side, traffic along the I-580, well, stinks after a big rig flipped over and dumped its load of organic fertilizer and bar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2010

    Franciscan Manzanita, Once Thought Extinct, On Way to Becoming 'Endangered'

    © California Academy of SciencesThe Franciscan Manzanita: Once 'extinct,' now 'endangered'? ​Usually, a species has to be endangered before it goes extinct. Not the Franciscan Manzanita. It went extinct -- and now it may become endangered. Readers may recall the discovery last year of a Francisca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Baylinks: Jerry Brown, Caltrain, Bocce Ball

    http://glenparknews.wordpress.com​Jerry Brown saves the children from cookies n' cream one cigarette at a time [SF Citizen]Caltrain looking to make more room for bicyclists [Streetsblog SF]Feds take a whiff of Oakland's new pot ordinance [Bay Citizen]

  • News

    June 23, 2010

    SF Weekly Letters

    http://glenparknews.wordpress.com​Jerry Brown saves the children from cookies n' cream one cigarette at a time [SF Citizen]Caltrain looking to make more room for bicyclists [Streetsblog SF]Feds take a whiff of Oakland's new pot ordinance [Bay Citizen]

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Caltrans Sued Over Highway Project Through Redwood Forest

    ​Environmental activists are suing Caltrans over plans to expand and reroute a highway that passes through Richardson Grove State Park, the Humboldt County preserve that boasts some of California's oldest and tallest coast redwoods.The suit was filed yesterday in San Francisco Superior Court by th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Moving Franciscan Manzanita: Not Cheap

    © California Academy of SciencesThe most expensive bush since Reggie Bush? ​Readers may recall the irony of scientists discovering an "extinct" Franciscan Manzanita, a plant no one had seen for 60 years in the wild, right in the middle of land about to be leveled for a highway project. At the tim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Transit Experts: Caltrain's Future Grim

    Going, going, gone?​On April Fools' Day, the CEO of Caltrain made an announcement we wish was just a joke: The agency is beyond broke, and will move to cut half its service. And that's only if it's lucky enough to survive at all. That was the bad news. Here's the worse news: According to transit e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    Barry Zito Gets No Love on Caltrain

    Joe EskenaziBarry's Caltrain dis...​Sports fans -- and public rail enthusiasts -- may have heard how larger-than-life images of San Francisco Giants' stars are now gracing Caltrains' gallery cars. It remains to be seen if this will put more derrieres in AT&T Park's seats -- but it's a wonderfu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    Broke Caltrain Moves to Cut Half its Service

    You likely soon won't see one of these during non-commuter hours​Whenever your CEO prefaces his message to the board with "This is not an April Fools' joke," you're in for some bad news. And bad news is what Caltrain boss Mike Scanlon delivered yesterday: "There's a possibility this railroad could ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Collision at 4th and King Kills Pedestrian, Delays Muni

    View Larger MapA pickup truck and garbage truck collided at around 5 a.m. near the Caltrain station, reports KTVU. The pickup subsequently spun out, striking and killing a pedestrian -- and the driver of that vehicle has been detained by police following a sobriety test.The Medical Examiner told SF ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2010

    So, How Much Does it Cost to Care For an 'Extinct' Plant For 10 Years?

    © California Academy of SciencesWhich costs more: Nurturing a super-rare plant or sending a kid to college? ​Earlier this week, SF Weekly wrote about how amazingly well everything had gone in the hastily planned relocation of the Presidio's Franciscan Manzanita -- a plant no one had seen in the w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2009

    You, Too, Can Check Out Your Hood's Seedy Underbelly Online

    Do you like that warm feeling you get knowing that random acts of crime-ness are being committed around you every moment of the day? Well, if so, you're in luck.  The latest addition to the city's amalgam of crime-mapping web sites, www.crimemapping.com, lets you type in an address, tinker with ... More >>

  • News

    November 18, 2009

    List: Bridging the safety gap

    Do you like that warm feeling you get knowing that random acts of crime-ness are being committed around you every moment of the day? Well, if so, you're in luck.  The latest addition to the city's amalgam of crime-mapping web sites, www.crimemapping.com, lets you type in an address, tinker with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Drivers Still Going Too Fast On Bay Bridge? How About Putting Up Risqué Billboards?

    You can't see her if you don't survive the trip -- it's an incentive!​Over the past week it has evolved into something of a parlor game to come up with novel methods for making people drive at safe velocities on the Bay Bridge's precarious new S-Curve. We suggested stark signage noting that the pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    No One Has Driven Off Bay Bridge Today (Yet)

    A less problematic S-Curve​Following yesterday's terrifying plunge off the Bay Bridge by a speeding trucker, Caltrans wheeled out the surplus signage to inform drivers of what should have been all too obvious: The posted speed limit on the bridge isn't just a suggestion. Your humble narrator perso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2009

    Engineer: High Winds a Credible -- But Shocking -- Explanation For Bay Bridge Failure

    ​Jack Moehle -- a U.C. Berkeley engineering professor and one of the Bay Area's acknowledged experts on freeway and bridge failure -- said that Caltrans' initial claims that high winds contributed to yesterday's rupture on the Bay Bridge is "a credible explanation." Still, he's taken aback that th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    Whatever Happened to the Safeway Food That Spilled Onto the Bay Bridge? You May Be Eating It.

    truckspills.comIt's an amusing photo, but, technically, when food falls off the back of a truck, the general public has no right to purloin it​It turns out that the can of vegetables you serve for dinner in the near future may have a more interesting story to tell than you do. You've probably read ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2009

    Iron Cactus Taqueria Plans to Open Next Week Near Caltrain

    Once it starts spinning, you should probably grab your train.​An update on Iron Cactus (683 Fourth St. at Townsend), the SOMA taqueria adjacent to The Creamery (and from the same owners): The revised opening date is next Wednesday, Oct. 21. Iron Cactus' wagonwheel logo, an interior of repurpos ... More >>

  • News

    September 16, 2009

    Obama's stimulus money will increase traffic, but not bridge safety

    Once it starts spinning, you should probably grab your train.​An update on Iron Cactus (683 Fourth St. at Townsend), the SOMA taqueria adjacent to The Creamery (and from the same owners): The revised opening date is next Wednesday, Oct. 21. Iron Cactus' wagonwheel logo, an interior of repurpos ... More >>

  • News

    June 17, 2009

    SF Weekly Letters

    Once it starts spinning, you should probably grab your train.​An update on Iron Cactus (683 Fourth St. at Townsend), the SOMA taqueria adjacent to The Creamery (and from the same owners): The revised opening date is next Wednesday, Oct. 21. Iron Cactus' wagonwheel logo, an interior of repurpos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Again? Gunn High School Students' Moth-Like Attraction to Caltrain Tracks Has Grown Surreal

    We're living through the "interesting times" of the apocryphal malevolent Chinese proverb when folks' first reaction to hearing that Caltrain plans on raising fees while cutting services is "thank God!" The fewer trains running on the tracks, the fewer Gunn High students can end their brief lives be ... More >>

  • News

    May 20, 2009

    Web Extra — Bonus Best Of

    We're living through the "interesting times" of the apocryphal malevolent Chinese proverb when folks' first reaction to hearing that Caltrain plans on raising fees while cutting services is "thank God!" The fewer trains running on the tracks, the fewer Gunn High students can end their brief lives be ... More >>

  • News

    March 25, 2009

    Trainiquette

    A commuter's demands from Caltrain.

  • News

    March 25, 2009

    Transit Spotting

    A transportation activist points to inefficient and costly projects like the Central Subway.

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2009

    Penzeys Now in Bay Area

    Some of Penzeys' spices are sufficiently superior that they're worth the extra trouble.

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2008

    SF Weekly Ticket Giveaway: KPFA Crafts & Music Fair

    Attention all you artsy-crafty All Shook Downers and mid-December X-mas shoppers: We've got four pairs of tickets to the KPFA (94.1 FM) Crafts and Music Fair at the Concourse for either Dec.13 or 14 (one day, your choice). Here are some cut-and-paste details (click the above link for more): "Dis ... More >>

  • News

    July 2, 2008

    Caltrain allows drinks - see seat stains for proof

    Attention all you artsy-crafty All Shook Downers and mid-December X-mas shoppers: We've got four pairs of tickets to the KPFA (94.1 FM) Crafts and Music Fair at the Concourse for either Dec.13 or 14 (one day, your choice). Here are some cut-and-paste details (click the above link for more): "Dis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2008

    Person Struck and Killed by Caltrain Sunday

    Attention all you artsy-crafty All Shook Downers and mid-December X-mas shoppers: We've got four pairs of tickets to the KPFA (94.1 FM) Crafts and Music Fair at the Concourse for either Dec.13 or 14 (one day, your choice). Here are some cut-and-paste details (click the above link for more): "Dis ... More >>

  • News

    February 20, 2008

    Chron Watch's #1 Star - Caltrans Director Bijan Sartipi

    Attention all you artsy-crafty All Shook Downers and mid-December X-mas shoppers: We've got four pairs of tickets to the KPFA (94.1 FM) Crafts and Music Fair at the Concourse for either Dec.13 or 14 (one day, your choice). Here are some cut-and-paste details (click the above link for more): "Dis ... More >>

  • Dining

    January 9, 2008

    South Food & Wine Bar's Australian Food Overthought, Overwrought

    Mixed messages from the first outpost of contemporary Aussie cooking in S.F.

  • News

    November 21, 2007

    Bones of Discontent - Andrew Galvan carves a unique, controversial role in relocating Native American skeletons

    Mixed messages from the first outpost of contemporary Aussie cooking in S.F.

  • News

    August 16, 2006

    Spinning Our Wheels

    The summer has brought a bevy of frustrations, delays, and smoggy afternoons to Bay Area drivers. Do you manage to look the other way?

  • News

    January 26, 2005

    A Bridge Too Far

    Is it your fault that the seismic retrofit of the Bay Bridge will be years late, billions over budget, and uglier than ever? Maybe.

  • Calendar

    January 12, 2005

    Got MLK?

    A day to remember

  • News

    March 17, 2004

    A Bridge Too Weak?

    A UC Berkeley professor believes the unique new Bay Bridge design is fatally flawed

  • Calendar

    August 13, 2003

    Butterfat on Wheels

    A rolling ice cream social

  • News

    March 21, 2001

    Sweat, Steel, and Stealth

    Retrofitting the Bay Bridge will take five years, hundreds of workers, a million bolts, and 19 million pounds of iron. The hardest part? Making sure no one notices.

  • News

    January 10, 2001

    Dog Bites

    Board of Supervisors; Population Growth; Dot-com Layoffs

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