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Trucker Dies As Big-Rig Plummets Off San Francisco Bridge

AP | SUDHIN THANAWALA | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

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SAN FRANCISCO — An accident-plagued stretch of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge saw its first fatality Monday when the driver of a speeding ...

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The San Francisco Bay Bridge And an Ethics Revolution

Leslie Griffith | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media

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Leslie Griffith

Amazingly, the only thing I learned from the media coverage of the Bay Bridge accident was that Caltrans and reporters get along swimmingly. It's time journalists ask some real questions.

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Helmsman sentenced to 10 months for SF oil spill

AP | Posted 08.17.2009 | Home

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The helmsman of a cargo ship that set off an environmental disaster in the San Francisco Bay has been sentenced to 10 months in prison.

U.S District Court Judge Susan Illston sentenced John Cota to the maximum sentence Friday for two misdemeanor environmental crimes of illegally discharging oil in the bay and killing thousands of birds.

He pleaded guilty to the charges in March.

Cota was the pilot of the 901-foot Cosco Busan when it slammed into the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on the foggy morning of Nov. 7, 2007.

Cota's lawyer argued that a poorly trained Chinese crew, language barriers and others factors beyond his control contributed the accident.

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Bridging the Transportation Gap

Louise Nelson Dyble | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

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Louise Nelson Dyble

When the government agency overseeing mass transit and the government agency building highways are distinct and uncoordinated, they compete for money, and the public loses.

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Casual Carpooling -- With Strangers -- Booming In San Francisco

good.is | Posted 03.12.2009 | Green

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Every weekday, between 6:00 and 9:30 in the morning, a stream of cars and a line of pedestrian commuters converge at a Safeway supermarket in the Rock...

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California's Jerry Brown Sues Over 2007 San Francisco Bay Oil Spill

AP | Posted 02.07.2009 | Green

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SAN FRANCISCO — California Attorney General Jerry Brown has filed a lawsuit seeking millions of dollars to recover the clean-up cost of the mass...

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