14 hours ago by Mark Pritchard

Last night’s big rig plunge off the Bay Bridge, which happened at 3:30 a.m. when a semi with a load of pears hit the infamous S-curve too fast, was only the latest of more than forty accidents on the suddenly jinxed bridge, the CHP said, as reported by KTVU TV’s website. The truck hit the curve at 5 ...

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14 hours ago by SF Metblogs

Last night’s big rig plunge off the Bay Bridge, which happened at 3:30 a.m. when a semi with a load of pears hit the infamous S-curve too fast, was only the latest of more than forty accidents on the suddenly jinxed bridge, the CHP said, as reported by KTVU TV’s website. The truck hit the curve [... ...

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2 days ago by traffman

I’m not good at surprising people. I tried to surprise my significant other this week by buying him a Kindle (now available outside the US – yay!). Problem is, I forgot to delete the confirmation email from Amazon, and he stumbled across it when doing some techie repairs. Oops. Which is why I was im ...

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2 days ago by dcuff

The Bay Bridge has had nearly an accident a day on the new S-curve that opened after Labor Day modifications of the span. There was another crash there Friday even though Caltrans added new safety measures on the curve during the recent six-day closure of the bridge. Caltrans took advantage of that ...

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3 days ago by Your Boulevardier

Progress continues on the Highway 580 / Redwood Road interchange. For a long time the work seemed largely confined to the south side of the freeway, but in the last few weeks crews have taken out trees, built a retaining wall, and carved off a portion of the Spencer Mortuary parking lot for the west ...

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3 days ago by Nick

Plug In America Plug In America, PIA has kept busy the last few months with a successful AASHTO meet in Palm Springs, California as well as the result of its bumper sticker game. AASHTO What? AASHTO, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials works to preserve the nation’ ...

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5 days ago by Adrian Glick Kudler

There is a giant wooden fork--painted to look like stainless steel one--on a Caltrans-owned median in Pasadena that is confusing the hell out of city and Caltrans officials. The Pasadena Star-News dug up the story--the guerilla art piece was erected as a birthday present for comedy club-owner Bob St ...

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5 days ago by dcuff

Caltrans will close two of the four lanes on southbound Interstate 680 in Alamo for three or four hours today - starting at 10 a.m - to repair a hole in the pavement. A major rehabilitation of the entire freeway in the San Ramon Valley is being planned for summer of 2010. This is one beat up freeway ...

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7 days ago

California is drowning in red ink. With thousands of state workers facing furloughs, the state is spending your money to send dozens of Caltrans workers, and lot of heavy equipment, to a luxury hotel resort in the desert for a convention. Read more: Caltrans Under Fire For Going To SoCal Junket – KP ...

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7 days ago by dcuff

We invite our readers to post comments below about how the Bay Bridge closure affected them during the five and a half days the span was out of service. Did the closure change your travel plans? Did the closure try your patience? Was it understandable Caltrans took so long to fix a Labor Day repair ...

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