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BART considers stimulus funds to avoid layoffs

Since BART approved its budget - and won more than $100 million in savings from its labor unions - the budget deficit for the current year has grown from a projection of $22 million to an estimated $26 million. Officials blame larger-than-expected ...

From MICHAEL CABANATUAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Service Employees International Union

Muni tunnel open again after derailment

The derailment happened at 7:35 a.m. when the second car of an outbound two-car L-Taraval train came off the tracks in the tunnel between the Castro and Forest Hill stations, about a half-mile east of Castro, said agency spokesman Judson True. Muni ...

From MICHAEL CABANATUAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  17 Nov 2009

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Concrete dry, N-Judah back in business

(11-16) 17:41 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Muni's N-Judah light-rail line is back in full service after missing the morning commute because of slow-drying concrete on a construction project intended to improve service. Light-rail service, which ended at 22nd ...

From MICHAEL CABANATUAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  16 Nov 2009

CHP steps up patrols for Bay Bridge speeders

Late Wednesday, the CHP initiated an enforcement blitz on and around the S-curve - the site of at least 43 accidents, since it opened Sept. 8. The curve - a temporary detour that will be in place for four years - has been a problem since it opened. ...

From MICHAEL CABANATUAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: California Highway Patrol

Eyebar just one of Bay Bridge's many problems

The cracked eyebar forced the extension of a scheduled construction closure of the bridge over Labor Day weekend for emergency repairs. Then, when that repair failed on Oct. 27, flinging tons of steel onto the bridge during the evening commute, the ...

From MICHAEL CABANATUAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of California Berkeley

Little opposition at bridge toll hearing

Bay Bridge commuters can expect higher tolls in commute hours, carpoolers can look forward to paying for the first time to cross state-owned bridges, and truckers should prepare for huge hikes at the toll booths if the first public hearing on a toll ...

From MICHAEL CABANATUAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  5 Nov 2009

Bay Bridge may need another fix

Caltrans officials said this afternoon that the repairs they worked on meticulously for the past six days made the Bay Area's busiest toll bridge safe. But they're investigating a number of other long-term solutions that would require less monitoring ...

From MICHAEL CABANATUAN,HENRY K. LEE, San Francisco Chronicle,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: California Highway Patrol

New black eye for recently improved Caltrans

But, just as the agency's reputation was recovering came three setbacks in less than two months: a crack in an eyebar - a key structural piece - on the Bay Bridge that was found over Labor Day weekend, traffic headaches caused by the new "S" curve ...

From MICHAEL CABANATUAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Joe Simitian

Bridge closure later likely for permanent fix

The Bay Bridge is once again open to traffic - after six long days of emergency structural repairs and hellish commutes - but it will probably be shut down again in a few months for a permanent fix. Richard Land, Caltrans' chief engineer, said Monday ...

From MICHAEL CABANATUAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  3 Nov 2009

1,200 called to fight fire near Santa Cruz

About 85 residents were ordered to evacuate as the blaze, east of Highway 17 and west of Gilroy, showed that this year's fire season isn't yet over despite recent showers that were so heavy they caused mudslides in the same area now burning. By Sunday ...

From MICHAEL CABANATUAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Forest Service

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