Any TV interview that ends with an effeminate BMW driver in an Elmo t-shirt screaming "Call 1-800-GET-THIN chubby butt!" is a good one, so respect the San Francisco cameraman at KRON-TV for holding his own against this law-breaking driver on the Bay Bridge.
Bay Bridge Bomb Standoff Gives Amazing Stopped Traffic Shot
A man, distraught over his marriage, parked his Explorer on San Francisco's Bay Bridge claiming he filled it with explosives. He eventually turned himself in, but not before causing this insane traffic jam. [Sky1Ron via BusinessInsider]
Cable Snaps On Aging San Francisco Bay Bridge
The emergency Labor Day weekend repairs
San Francisco Bay Bridge Cable Failure
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Photo: Michael Macor / The Chronicle
Photo: Michael Macor / The Chronicle
Photo: Noah Berger / Special to The Chronicle
The Bay Bridge Repair That Didn't Make Headlines
When a broken link on the San Francisco Bay bridge was found over Labor Day weekend, the repair was a drama-filled race against time
Time-Lapse Video Of Bay Bridge Construction
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is six months older than the Golden Gate and is undergoing a long-term replacement. This weekend a new 7,000-ton steel section was dropped into place. Photos and a time-lapse video below.
Cush-Ride Suspension of Belief
Back when we lived Oakland work sometimes carried us over the Bay Bridge to Treasure Island to spray umber and ocher colored water about sets. Even though the island was only halfway across the bridge, getting there required paying the full bridge toll! While sitting in traffic the idea of a personal hovercraft was…
Question of the Day: What's the Worst Thing You've Done to Other Drivers?
Today's news of the Bay Bridge melting
The Mighty Bay Bridge
There's a photograph of the bridge abutment between the two suspension spans of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the liner notes of Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy that I've always loved. Because while the Golden Gate may be the most perfectly beautiful bridge ever built, it's also kind of crap. First of…
Eastbound is Down: Bay Area Traffic Not as Bad as Expected Due to…
For those of you who never did time in the Bay Area, we'll lay it straight out: when the Bay Bridge is closed, the normally bad traffic goes from indigestion to amoebic dysentery. And to demolish the old Western Approach to the hoary gray workhorse (and actually our favorite bridge anywhere (yes, we love you, too,
