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San Francisco Chronicle

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Huge changes are coming to Bay Area bridges. But first, the tolls are going up again

Radical changes are afoot for drivers crossing Bay Area bridges, with a new round of toll hikes and tiered rate system.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA · 3d

CBS News

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Bay Area rain causes flooded roads, crashes and collapsed ceiling

San Francisco, CA · 1d

San Francisco Chronicle

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This Bay Area bridge will shut down to make way for a revolution in tolling. Here’s when

A weekend closure on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge will let Caltrans install tolling equipment as it prepares to replace toll booths with cameras and sensors.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA · 4d

SFGate

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Santa Rosa: Drivers Asked To Avoid Santa Rosa Avenue At Colgan Avenue

Drivers in Santa Rosa were asked to avoid Santa Rosa Avenue at Colgan Avenue Saturday afternoon following a collision. The collision occurred on northbound Santa Rosa Avenue, causing heavy traffic in the area, according to an advisory Saturday from the Santa Rosa Police Department. Article continues below this ad. Delays...

Santa Rosa, CA · 14h
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San Francisco Chronicle

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I-580 lanes closed after vehicle overturns in Richmond

A driver was injured Wednesday evening after overturning a vehicle on Interstate 580 in Richmond, closing a portion of the freeway, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Richmond, CA · 3d

SFGate

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Regional: Planned Closure Of State Route 4 East Of Discovery Bay Rescheduled For Nov. 22

The planned closure of State Route 4 east of Discovery Bay has been postponed due to a stormy weather forecast, Caltrans officials announced Thursday. The full closure was originally scheduled for Sunday and is now expected to happen on Nov. 22 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Article continues below...

Discovery Bay, CA · 1d

tiremeetsroad.com

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Pleasant Hill, CA: Doofus Refuses To Yield When Turning Onto Crescent Plaza Despite Multiple Left-Turn Yield-on-Green Signs

The impatient driver risked an accident and multiple tickets just to save a couple of seconds. A Contra Costa County-area driver and Redditor /u/Tibierius_Jim shared head-shaking dashcam footage from earlier in October (Oct 27, 2026) to the /r/IdiotsInCars subreddit, showing an impatient driver disregarding yield-on-green signage and risking an accident and multiple tickets to save a couple of seconds.

Pleasant Hill, CA · 1d

SFGate

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Alameda Co.: King Tides Could Force Closures Of Roads And Tunnels, Caltrans Warns

Drivers in Alameda and Oakland may face temporary road and tunnel closures over the coming months as unusually high tides raise the risk of coastal flooding, Caltrans warned Friday. The agency is monitoring conditions along state Route 61, also known as Doolittle Drive, and state Route 260, which includes the...

Oakland, CA · 21h

KTVU FOX 2

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Rain floods North Bay roads

Heavy rains impacted drivers across the Bay Area on Friday. In Marin County especially, roads were flooded, which caused multiple car crashes and street closures. Some residents put up sandbags around homes and businesses, bracing for the storms yet to come.

Marin County, CA · 1d

activenorcal.com

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First Major Sierra Storm Shuts I-80 Over Donner Summit and Buries Carson Pass in a Foot of Snow

Interstate 80 over Donner Summit spent much of Friday evening as a parking lot, shut down in both directions shortly after 4 p.m. when spinouts piled up faster than crews could clear them in the season’s first real snowstorm. The California Highway Patrol held eastbound traffic at Kingvale and...

California · 12h

KTVU FOX 2

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Bridge tolls increasing on January 1st

Bay Area bridge tolls will increase in the new year. John Goodwin from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission joins Sal to discuss where that money will be spent, and the work to remove the toll plaza at the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA · 2d

Streetsblog Capitol Hill

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ClimatePlan Offers Becerra a Roadmap for Rethinking Transportation Priorities

A new report from ClimatePlan, titled Getting There: A Governor’s Playbook for Making It Easier and More Affordable to Get Around and Live in California, outlines immediate steps the incoming Becerra Administration could take to improve the state’s air quality and prepare for the future by creating fundamental changes in how the state prioritizes transportation projects, distributes funding, and coordinates transportation and housing policy.

California · 1d

Newsweek

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New Images Show California High-Speed Rail Progress

Photographs of six new completed projects of the California high-speed rail project were released on Thursday.

California · 1d

CBS San Francisco

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Rain floods Bay Area roads, damages home and leaves drivers stranded

Heavy rain caused widespread problems across the Bay Area Friday, flooding roads, damaging vehicles and even bringing part of a San Francisco home's ceiling crashing down.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA · 23h

KQED

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Survivor: Bay Area. BART Gets a Sales Tax, but Still Forecasts a Budget Deficit

At the first BART Board of Directors meeting since voters approved a regional sales tax to prevent service cuts at major Bay Area transit agencies, Director Mark Foley wore a hat and sweatshirt emblazoned with the logo for Survivor. “The Bay Area has spoken, and we survived,” Foley said Thursday,...

San Francisco Bay Area, CA · 1d

The Fresno Bee

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CEO's gone; High-Speed Rail still plans to lay first tracks this year. Does it need the win?

The recent resignation of its CEO hasn’t changed the California High-Speed Rail Authority ’s plan to lay the project’s first tracks by the end of year, says the head of the agency’s board, a milestone that could improve the public image of the often-maligned project. The agency says it has already begun receiving the building materials it needs to begin that work in Kern County. “We’re moving forward,” board Chair Steve Kawa told The Fresno Bee. “We’re going to be getting track, and we’re going to be laying track in 2026.” The rail authority has spent most of the last two years promising the physical milestone by the end of this year — more than a decade after construction began in the Central Valley — so failing to begin that work could worsen the project’s already strained public image. Gov.-elect Xavier Becerra, a Democrat, has indicated he wants to reform high-speed rail, but he has provided few details about any potential plans. Jonathan Underland, Becerra’s spokesperson, did not respond to The Fresno Bee’s request for an interview with the governor-elect. If the agency succeeds in laying track in the next six weeks, it could take a late win in what

Kern County, CA · 2d

Guessing Headlights

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San Francisco Waymo Tries to Pass CHP Cars Holding Back Freeway Traffic

A traffic break on a San Francisco freeway gave one Waymo a problem to work out. While police held back the cars behind them, the driverless car tried to find a way around. Instagram user ... Read more

San Francisco, CA · 1d

SFGate

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Overnight Bay Bridge lane closures extended through mid-December

Drivers heading east across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge should expect overnight delays as lane closures for bridge painting and repair work continue through mid-December, Caltrans said Friday. Four eastbound lanes will close in stages between the San Francisco Anchorage near Rincon Hill and the Yerba Buena Island Tunnel, leaving...

San Francisco, CA · 22h

San José Spotlight

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Silicon Valley BART extension hits construction milestone

Transportation officials overseeing the multibillion-dollar Silicon Valley BART extension are celebrating an early construction milestone in bringing the rapid transit service to downtown San Jose and Santa Clara. Workers in recent weeks completed excavating and reinforcing an 83-foot-deep hole on a former rail yard property nearby PayPal Park. The shaft will serve as the launch... The post Silicon Valley BART extension hits construction milestone appeared first on San José Spotlight .

San Jose, CA · 2d

ksro.com

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Santa Rosa Plaza Drive Lane Plan Officially Dead

A controversial proposal to build a drive lane through the pedestrian plaza at Santa Rosa Plaza’s B Street entrance is officially dead. The Press Democrat reports city planning officials formally revoked the project’s permit on Thursday after mall operators requested to withdraw their application in September. The company...

Santa Rosa, CA · 1d