San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

Canadian Astronaut Mistakes Bay Bridge for Golden Gate Bridge

In space, no one can hear you scream. It follows, then, that no one can hear you when you scream that an astronaut has apparently misidentified San Francisco's most famous bridge. In his Twitter feed, Canadian spaceman Commander Chris Hadfield sends along a breathtaking photo of the Bay Area. "The G ... More >>

ABC7's Dan Noyes Gets Cursed Out by Bar Pilot During Interview in San Francisco (Video)

ABC7's Investigative Team hit the pavement again yesterday, trying to get some answers about bar pilot Guy Kleess, the guy who slammed an oil tanker into the Bay Bridge earlier this week. And let's just say, the final product was the perfect combination of news and entertainment. As you will see in ... More >>

Pilot of Tanker that Hit Bay Bridge Was Involved in Three Other Accidents Since 2009

The pilot operating the tanker that hit the Bay Bridge yesterday morning had been in three other accidents since 2009, the Associated Press reported. Guy Kleess, who has been licensed to handle big vessels in Northern California waters since 2005, was found responsible for two of those accidents. T ... More >>

Oil Tanker Hits Bay Bridge, No Signs of Spilled Oil So Far

At 11:37 a.m today, an oil tanker hit the Bay Bridge's eastern tower. The tanker was empty and emergency crews said that they have not seen spilled oil in the water, the Chronicle reported. Still, officials from the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife established a nearby command post and sent ... More >>

Watch This Fearless Pup Drive Through San Francisco

In the same way we enjoyed the smoking Scrub Jay in Bernal Heights not too long ago, here's another amusing image of an animal acting like a destructive human. In this video, posted by YouTube user thedrivingdogs, you will see Porter the pup speeding across the Bay Bridge and through the streets of ... More >>

Heavy Rains Put a Damper on Your Friday Morning Commute, Major Muni Delays

Update 9:30 a.m. Those of you relying on public transit this morning aren't faring much better than drivers on the wet roadways. Muni is reporting "significant delays" for all inbound trains after a mechanical issue on a train at the Forrest Hill station essentially brought service to a screeching h ... More >>

Play SF Weekly's Hardly Strictly Bingo

This weekend, as you traverse the city to attend one of the many events, you are guaranteed to be stuck ... in Bay Bridge traffic, stuck waiting for the next Muni train, or perhaps you are stuck on BART -- and it's not moving. No matter how you plan to get where you are going, it's going to suck.So ... More >>

Labor Day Traffic Forecast: Your Roadtrip Won't Be That Congested

If ever there was a silver lining to high gas prices, this just might be it: No traffic. Well, okay, that might be hyperbolic, but we can at least assure you that this Labor Day Weekend the roads won't be any more clogged than what you've grown accustomed to in San Francisco. While San Francisco has ... More >>

Behold Epic Roasthouse's Explosion Burger

Epic Roasthouse reintroduced limited lunch service (Wednesdays through Fridays from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.) last week after a hiatus of a few years. We dropped in yesterday to give it a try and gravitated toward chef Jan Birnbaum's Explosion Burger ($20), which is also now Epic's only burger and av ... More >>

Antonio Roberson Created Bay Bridge Traffic Jam Yesterday, Police Say

Police now have a little more information about yesterday's shooting that closed down the lower deck of the Bay Bridge for most of the morning, ruining your commute to work. Antonio Roberson, 29, was taken into custody yesterday morning after his car crashed near the S-Curve as police chased him acr ... More >>

Bay Bridge Reopened After Shooting

Update (12 p.m.): All lanes of the eastbound span of the Bay Bridge are open again to traffic, however, media outlets are reporting traffic is still sluggish for San Francisco drivers headed to the East Bay. Calls to the CHP have not yet been returned, however, press reports say nobody was injured i ... More >>

Town's End Brunch: Sweet Beginnings by the Bay

Town's End Restaurant & Bakery, as its name suggests, is tucked into a corner just off the Embarcadero steps away from the San Francisco Bay. It makes for good people watching, as the city's lively inhabitants pour into AT&T Park, cars zoom over the Bay Bridge and you play tourist for a day, ... More >>

Elderly Woman Carjacked in Financial District, Two Arrested

Two men led police on a high-speed chase across the Bay Bridge after carjacking an elderly woman in the city's Financial District. Officer Albie Esparza says the 83-year-old woman was parked in her van on the corner of Battery and Washington streets at about 1:40 a.m. when two men approached her and ... More >>

Vidal Sassoon: Hairdresser and Philosopher

Hair snobs everywhere are mourning the death today of Vidal Sassoon, the British guru who was best known for his wash 'n wear hairstyles. We were delighted that a quick search in the SF Weekly archives revealed a random Q&A with Sassoon shortly after then-Mayor Willie Brown signed a proclamation ... More >>

Span of Knowledge

Manufacturing Group Calls Bay Bridge an "Icon of Embarrassment"

​As a tourist, you might refer to the Bay Bridge as a spectacular sight; as a local, you will probably call it congested. But embarrassing? Now that's one adjective that doesn't come to mind when you stare at one of the city's prized landmarks.However, a group of American manufacturers are calling ... More >>

DRINK 2012 Promises Boozy Tastings and Cocktail Competitions

​ This Saturday, come watch some of San Francisco's best bartenders work at DRINK, SF Weekly's second annual celebration of all that is alcoholic. Taste your way through dozens of cocktail components like Carpano Antica, Templeton Rye, Fever Tree tonic, Zacapa Tequila, and St. George's new botani ... More >>

They Built This City

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 >>

President's Day Weekend: Another Carmaggedon?

Closed for business​What better way to celebrate the Great Emancipator than with hair-pulling traffic and even more of a clusterfuck than usual for Bay Area commuters? The westbound deck of the Bay Bridge heading into San Francisco will be closed at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17, until 5 a.m. on Tues ... More >>

Bay Bridge Bus Crash Clogs Morning Commute, Injuries 1

Well, this is what it feels like​Traffic headed into San Francisco is backed up on the Bay Bridge after an early morning crash shutdown a lane.The far left westbound lane is closed after an AC Transit bus collided with three other vehicles shortly after 6 a.m. According to media reports, the bus d ... More >>

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

"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 >>

Love Letter to a Big Metal Workhorse

Pizza and Belly Dancing, Taking on a Curse While Making Fresh Tofu, and More

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Last week we mentioned two pizza places eyeing S.F., the opening of Pachino, and the shutdown of PizzaHacker. Just in case that wasn't enough pizza news, Fisherman's Wharf is getting ready to welcome a ne ... More >>

Dubstep Takes Over the Fillmore District This Saturday, Rest of the World Soon After

Irie Cartel is one of the DJ groups performing at the free Fillmore Dub Music Festival on Saturday.​If you're reading this blog, you've probably already heard of it -- it's heavy, it wobbles, and it's not the Bay Bridge. A fast-growing electronica genre with roots in reggae and dub music, du ... More >>

Bay Bridge Explorer App Lets You Drive on New Bridge

​The ever-changing shape of the San Francisco Bay Bridge is about shift again over Memorial Day weekend as part of a larger effort to retrofit one of the world's busiest bridges. And as you might recall, drivers don't adapt well to the  abrupt changes. Remember the confusion and crashes on th ... More >>

In Case You Were Wondering, Jello Biafra Hates S.F.'s High-Tech Geeks and "Shitty Indie-Pop Bands"

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine​Jello Biafra, the former high-pitched voice of the Dead Kennedys, isn't known for holding his tongue. Whether he's helming a punk rock band, running his Alternative Tentacles label, or even just speaking onstage, the guy always has something - ... More >>

Cosco Busan Operators Agree to Pay San Francisco Fishermen $3.65 Million

The hull of the Cosco Busan following its 2007 accident​Two international shipping companies have agreed to pay San Francisco's commercial fishermen $3.65 million in damages for an oil spill that occurred after the Cosco Busan container ship crashed into the Bay Bridge in 2007.The settlement, anno ... More >>

What Music Fans Would Avoid If BART Ran Later

Yeah, we'd probably see some more of this.​Hey, club- and concert-goers: someday you may not have to leave weekend events early to get back to the side of the bay on which you live!By which we mean that BART is considering the possibility of running trains later on the weekends, partially for ... More >>

Craig Carlos-Valentino, Accused Bay Bridge Gunman, In Court Today

Accused Bay Bridge traffic-stopper Craig Carlos-Valentino​Yesterday, a rain-related six-car crash slowed Bay Bridge traffic to a crawl. Today it was fog. But on Nov. 11, it was something wholly other. Craig Carlos-Valentino is charged with pulling over his black SUV on the westbound upper deck dur ... More >>

Craig Carlos-Valentino, Accused Bay Bridge Gunman, Facing Charges

Accused Bay Bridge traffic-stopper Craig Carlos-Valentino​Craig Carlos-Valentino, the 51-year-old Antioch driver accused of shutting down the Bay Bridge while he waved about a pistol and told authorities there were explosives in his SUV, will be arraigned in San Francisco Monday morning. Carlos-Va ... More >>

Bay Bridge Gunman Currently at San Francisco CHP Office

Sky1RonTraffic was halted this morning when a gunman acted out on the Bay Bridge​The gun-toting driver who halted westbound traffic on the Bay Bridge this morning with bomb threats is currently in custody at the San Francisco CHP office. "Obviously, we have a few questions for him," said Californi ... More >>

San Francycle: Where the Art Bikes Are

​ Last week, we asked, "where are all the art bikes?" And delightfully, you answered. And better yet, there's an opportunity to see a bunch this weekend. For nearly 25 years, a man named Slimm Buick has been crafting bikes into works of art. You can catch a glimpse of him in Automorphosis, H ... More >>

Transbay Terminal Closing Tonight -- Last Pics

The last bus will groan out of the creaky old Transbay Terminal at about fifteen past midnight on Saturday. The site of countless San Francisco arrivals and departures since 1939 will close down to the public for good and face the wrecking ball to make way for the Transbay Transit Center over the ne ... More >>

Golden State Warriors' Bay Bridge Logo Arriving This Week From China

For the bridge, it's a great time out...​How overdue is the erection of the eastern span of the Bay Bridge? Well, the Golden State Warriors couldn't wait for the span to actually exist before adopting it as their new logo. With portions of the signature tower sections set to arrive in Oakland tomo ... More >>

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

​Man-oh-Manischewitz, it was an interesting week. How interesting? This interesting: 1. Alleged gangster Charles "Cheese" Heard was found guilty of murdering and robbing a man of what unique pendant?A. A gold-coated scarab beetleB. An actual-sized Mercedes hubcapC. A bejeweled recreation of Bamm-B ... More >>

New Rule For Casual Carpoolers: Pony Up a Buck

​At the corner of Howard and Fremont this morning -- the first day of the $2.50 Bay Bridge carpool toll -- the casual carpoolers disembarked out of virtual strangers' vehicles just the same as they did yesterday and every other morning in past decades. Yet some were a dollar poorer.

The Bridge Isn't Built, But the Bike Path Might Be Moving

www.sfbike.org​​Today, the CA Assembly's Committee on Transportation approved a bill that would permit the SF Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) to use toll-generated funds to finance a bicycle-pedestrian-maintenance pathway on the West Span of the new Bay Bridge. The West Span refers to the bridge ... More >>

Golden State Warriors' New Logo Incorporates Yet-To-Be-Built Bay Bridge

​Let's get this out of the way: We like it. We hated Thunder and do not mourn his passing. The Golden State Warriors' new logo, clearly modeled after the yet-to-be-erected eastern span of the Bay Bridge, brings us a wave of nostalgia the team's play of late has not. Not only are the new-old (old-n ... More >>

Engineers Baffled By Claims Bay Bridge Suffering From 75-Year-Old Design Flaw

Amazing scenes were witnessed today...​A recent article in the Examiner trumpeted a claim that ought to make every San Francisco commuter of the past 75 years grateful he didn't end up unexpectedly swimming to work: "Bay Bridge Eyebar Woes Date To 1930s." But, reading the article, the premise appe ... More >>

Kev Choice’s song a day series gives Bay Area concerns a beat

List: Bridging the safety gap

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

Angry Indians! Angry girlfriends! Angry Unions! Angry NEWS QUIZ!A novel concept for slowing Bay Bridge traffic...​1. What was unusual about the murder charges filed this week against 34-year-old San Franciscan Kira Roueche? A. The body of her alleged victim has never been recovered B. Three other ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Bridge Expert: I'll Still Drive Bay Bridge -- But Break Is Baffling

​Whenever something goes wrong with a bridge here or elsewhere, one of the first people we call is Mark Ketchum -- one of the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California's designated experts on bridges. So, for what it's worth, Ketchum said he will unhesitatingly drive his car across t ... More >>

Picnic in the City

Forget the burgers and brats; we're packing roast beef sushi

Heartless Beauty

Chaya Brasserie