![]() ![]() ![]() In 2016, the Bay Area Council conducted a poll concluding most Bay Area denizens consider traffic to be constantly getting worse. In 2015 the San Francisco Chronicle found that Bay Bridge use was up 75 percent in only five years. This is the latest in a string of bad yet predictable news about daily commutes since the city’s economy rebounded in 2010. These were all the same three top offenders last year. And number three is the 101 between Shoreline and Oakland Road, at 8,290. The number two spot was the I-80 heading west from State Route 4 to Fremont Street, which eats away roughly 13,600 hours in delays each day. Bay Area freeway locations with most weekday traffic congestion, 2016 Map via MTC.gov In MTC’s rankings of the ten worst congested freeway routes in the region, the worst one was (once again) the 280 to the Treasure Island Tunnel, which eats up an estimated 14,120 hours of commute time each day due to delays. SAN FRANCISCO - A pair of spinning low-pressure systems rotating around a common center, parked off. MTC defines “congested delay” as the time spent in traffic moving at speeds of less than 35 mph.įor perspective, back in 2010 the relevant statistic was 1.9 minutes per commuter. Team Storm Coverage: Bay Bridge traffic nightmare, toppled trees, wind-driven outages 07:59. The news proved all too predictable for commuters: Congestion is up for the fourth year in a row.Īs MTC spokesperson John Goodwin wrote on the commission blog:Ĭongestion-related delays during weekday commute periods climbed 9 percent to a record average of 3.5 minutes per commuter in 2016 from 3.2 minutes a year earlier. Transportation officials approved the temporary fix last month and voted to open the bridge as originally planned around the Labor Day holiday weekend.The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)-a government body overseeing transit concerns across all nine Bay Area counties-released its annual report on freeway traffic Monday. Tuesday on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. The bridge will open with a temporary fix for the broken rods while the permanent repair, expected to be completed in December, is being installed. SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) A big-rig truck toppled on its side and snarled traffic just before 5 p.m. The discovery threatened to delay the bridge's opening by months. In March, more than two dozen rods used to anchor the roadway to important earthquake safety structures cracked after they were tightened. "California must do a better job going forward on all of our public works projects," he said. James Ghielmetti, a member of the California transportation commission, said at Monday's ceremony that the bridge should not have taken so long to go up. The new section of bridge has been under construction for almost a decade and follows years of political bickering, engineering challenges and cost overruns. ![]() Jerry Brown, who was closely involved in planning the bridge when he was mayor of Oakland, was out of town and unable to attend the ceremony, said his spokesman, Evan Westrup. Instead, after years of delays and cost overruns, the opening of one of the state's most expensive public works projects was marked with a relatively low-key event that did not even include the governor. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is the regions workhorse bridge, carrying more than a third of the traffic of all of the state-owned bridges combined. There was no public celebration with tens of thousands of pedestrians and fireworks as originally planned. Newsom, the former mayor of San Francisco, cut a chain with a blow torch to mark the opening after leading those gathered around the bridge's toll plaza in a countdown to the reopening. "I hope that the progress that's being represented at this moment is for a generation to dream big dreams and to do big things." "I hope this is more than just connecting two land masses," said lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom. The reopening came after the California highway patrol conducted a final security check and toll takers resumed their positions following a five-day closure as crews completed striping, railing and other final details on the new gleaming white span.Ĭars began lining up hours earlier in an attempt to be among the first on the new span, and CHP officers led a line of drivers across at about 10.15pm.Īt a modest inaugural ceremony, the new, self-anchored suspension bridge with its looming, single white tower was praised as a dramatic safety upgrade over its predecessor and a beautiful example of public art. "Despite the journey's length, it has been completed before the arrival of our next big earthquake," said Steve Heminger, executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. ![]()
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