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	<title>The Capricious Commuter &#187; Bridges</title>
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	<description>Getting around the Bay Area with Denis Cuff and the Queen of the Road</description>
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		<title>Two Caltrans workers fired from inspection unit had stolen gov construction materials, fed probe finds</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/11/27/two-caltrans-workers-fired-from-inspection-unit-had-stolen-gov-construction-materials-fed-probe-finds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/11/27/two-caltrans-workers-fired-from-inspection-unit-had-stolen-gov-construction-materials-fed-probe-finds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bay Area Toll Authority]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just two weeks after disclosures that a Caltrans technician had falsified inspection data on agency construction projects, a federal report says that the worker and his boss stole goverment construction materials for a project at the supervisor&#8217;s personal property. The new report, disclosed by the Sacramento Bee, is fueling an East Bay lawmaker&#8217;s suspicions that there is a problem in the culture of a Caltrans section that does tests to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>License to cheat: Trucker resorts to James Bond trick trying to avoid NY bridge toll</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/10/15/license-to-cheat-trucker-resorts-to-james-bond-trick-trying-to-avoid-ny-bridge-toll/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/10/15/license-to-cheat-trucker-resorts-to-james-bond-trick-trying-to-avoid-ny-bridge-toll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems everywhere with bridge tolls has toll cheats. No wonder then that a trucker made headlines with his ruse to hook up a cable to flip over his license plate over to avoid an electronically collected $65 toll on the George Washington Bridge entering New York. Read about it here. The Virginia trucker failed to get away with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gov. signs BART safety bill, vetoes red light camera, bike safety bills</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/10/07/gov-signs-bart-safety-bill-vetoes-red-light-camera-bike-safety-bills/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/10/07/gov-signs-bart-safety-bill-vetoes-red-light-camera-bike-safety-bills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 02:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BART]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[California bike safety advocates and critics of cameras that catch red-light runners were disappointed by the governor&#8217;s vetoes, but BART officials are pleased he signed a transit safety bill. Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed SB 29 that would have restricted government use of cameras to ticket drivers who  run red lights. State Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, got the idea for the bill from a constituent responding to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who took biggest hit from 6-day Bay Bridge closure?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/11/06/who-took-biggest-hit-from-6-day-bay-bridge-closure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/11/06/who-took-biggest-hit-from-6-day-bay-bridge-closure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BART]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bay Bridge]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/?p=833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t put a price on the aggravation of being stuck in traffic. That comment from a Bay Area transportation official become the theme of my story today about the toll on the region from a six-day closure of the Bay Bridge for emergency repairs. And much as that statement is true, we at the newspaper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How did the Bay Bridge closure affect you?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/11/02/how-did-the-bay-bridge-closure-affect-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/11/02/how-did-the-bay-bridge-closure-affect-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bay Bridge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We invite our readers to post comments below about how the Bay Bridge closure affected them during the five and a half days the span was out of service.  Did the closure change your travel plans? Did the closure try your patience? Was it understandable Caltrans took so long to fix a Labor Day repair that failed Tuesday? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing the fix; when will the Bay Bridge reopen?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/28/fixing-the-fix-when-will-the-bay-bridge-reopen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/28/fixing-the-fix-when-will-the-bay-bridge-reopen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a deja vu experience for news reporters and motorists last night as the Bay Bridge was closed indefinitely to shore up a cracked bridge piece called an eyebar. It turns out that parts of the the Labor Day weekend fix &#8211; a giant metal splint - failed and crashed onto the bridge. Caltrans said this morning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A chance to chime in before bridge tolls are raised</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/27/a-chance-to-chime-in-before-bridge-tolls-are-raised/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/27/a-chance-to-chime-in-before-bridge-tolls-are-raised/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bay Bridge]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Retrofitting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tolls]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/?p=829</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bay Area bridge operators have scheduled three public hearings on a proposed toll increase on seven state bridges. While bridge operators appear determined to raise tolls, they have many details to figure out. Members of the Bay Area Toll Authority are wrestling with how to revamp tolls to do two new things: collecting tolls from car pools during rush hour periods on all seven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the toll on bridge drivers be too big a toll?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/14/will-the-toll-on-bridge-drivers-be-too-big-a-toll/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/14/will-the-toll-on-bridge-drivers-be-too-big-a-toll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BART]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who take car pools across seven Bay Area bridges may be in for an unpleasant change next year: the end of free rides for car pools during rush-hour periods. And on the Bay Bridge, regular drivers not in car pools also may in for a shock: higher tolls during peak commute periods than at other times. Proposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bay Bridge: How will it do when the Big One hits?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/13/bay-bridge-how-will-it-do-when-the-big-one-hits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/13/bay-bridge-how-will-it-do-when-the-big-one-hits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/?p=823</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We all remember the scary images of a section of the Bay Bridge upper deck collapsing like a trap door 20 years ago when the Loma Prieta earthquake shook the Bay Area. Now we can see how the new East Span of the Bay Bridge is expected to perform in a big earthquake. Caltrans has posted a computer animated video on its Web [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paddle kayak or Web surf? Best way to view Bay Bridge work</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/09/04/paddle-kayak-or-web-surf-best-way-to-view-bay-bridge-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/09/04/paddle-kayak-or-web-surf-best-way-to-view-bay-bridge-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo of new Bay Bridge eastern span under construction by Flickr user ToastyKen used under Creative Commons attribution license. It&#8217;s the best show in town this Labor Day weekend, but the replacement of a 300-foot-long section of the Bay Bridge above Yerba Buena Island is very hard to see in person unless you&#8217;re a contractor, [...]]]></description>
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