OAKLAND

Since the SF thread is about burritos right now, I'm totally obsessed with the Sinaloa taco truck in Fruitvale. So amazing.

Good to know, will check out.
Anyone know if the Lanesplitter by the lake is delivering yet? I heard there were take-out only...

is there more than one? i went to the one in temescal this past wknd, it was dece

There's one in Berkeley on San Pablo and they just opened a hole in the wall between Grand Ave. and Lakeshore sort of near the Serenader.

Le Val's recently moved/opened a location in Oakland ... I got a good fish sandwich there.

This is going to be fun:

http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2009/08/29/mn-baybridge30_p_0500529609.jpg

Woo hoo! Accidents!

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1681730592?bctid=36873198001

I'm taking the ferry back tonight; the BART is going to be a clusterfuck I bet.

Get to drive across one last time after work today (they let us out at 3 for the traffic) then tomorrow I'll find out how crowded BART is.

(My normal amazing system, for those who don't know, is to leave my car at the San Leandro BART station during the work week, then to BART back and forth with my car waiting for me in the East Bay to get to/from work/BART/lunch. I do the Bay Bridge twice a week, Monday morning and Friday night.)

ok between this and the LA fires i got the hell out of dodge just in time :/

but this is cool!

although I've wondered, what do Treasure Island residents do this weekend? They're closing both spans right?

never mind: "Vehicle access to Yerba Buena Island and Treasure Island for residents, employees
and visitors will be maintained via special permit from San Francisco."

If you were also wondering.

they haven't closed the bridge for almost exactly 20 years right?

no, they closed it a few years ago during the same weekend.

so glad I live AND work in the east bay now

guess I'm the only fan of infrastructure-repair-related traffic-and-transit-snarls then

also, 24 hour BART!

I would be a bigger fan if I didn't drive across that bridge so often.

I predict BART won't be that bad tomorrow on account of everyone saying 'fuck this, I'm not coming in'. At least, that seems to be the dominant paradigm at my place of employment.

I'm hoping all the SOMA eateries will be dead tomorrow from all the east bay commuters staying home. No lines!

I have a gig in SF tomorrow night, and will brave the San Mateo bridge ...

Lotsa luck. Realized I drove over that section of the Eastern span for the LAST TIME EVER last night. I seriously stressed out about playing some appropriately cool music while doing so.

They also seem to be doing a bunch of construction on 880 and 24.

Is it that center divider stuff on 880? That's been going on and annoying me for awhile. 880 is the worst freeway in the Bay Area, by the way.

280 is the best.

I spent several years commuting from Oakland to Hayward ... oh how I loathed 880.

downtown sf is a fucking ghosttown rn

would be an A+ night for critical mass

OOh boy, can't wait to take my early out at work here, hop on BART, have a couple beers and get rolling with the extended weekend in isolated SF!
(sorry this isn't all that Oakland related, but hey, since that's where the bridge closure came up...)

280 really is the best.

although there are stretches of heading right out of SF where people drive like maniacal assholes

"downtown sf is a fucking ghosttown rn"

My office is ridiculously empty even for a a Friday.

Sounds like the bridge may not re-open on time:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/06/california.bridge.closed/index.html

that would be great, because then my boss won't come to work, and I won't have to feel bad about not finishing this crap on time.

Time-lapse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTM6Ux8Viak

that's awesome

Mehserle trial being moved out of Alameda County

Jacobson said his "deepest concern" was the possibility that jurors would have to walk past protesters outside the courthouse each day of the trial demanding "justice for Oscar Grant."

He really thinks simply moving the trial will dissuade protesters? Or quell the anger that will ensue if Mehserle is found not guilty?

hey it worked for in Simi Valley lolz

er "those cops in" Simi Valley

I just think it's kinda fucked up that Oakland via OPD has ended up bearing so much expense of babysitting/handling protesters when it was BART's fuck-up that brought it about. Meanwhile BART from Oakland to SF costs 3 times as much as in 1997.

Yeah I couldn't help but think about that during the protests downtown. Of all the lousy situations for BART to drop on Oakland's doorstep.

for a while they were having protests weekly near City Hall on the same day I was working for a client in the Tribune Tower. I could tell they were running out of steam when for half an hour some guy was going on about the only way to prevent travesties like this is by an authentic Socialist Revolution.

god those international socialist party people are the worst

19th Street Station was covered in these this morning,

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/1940/barttp.jpg

lo....l?

whoa shit.

in other downtown oakland news, the lady at the NY deli on the corner of 14th and franklin insisted i and another customer pay her tomorrow instead of using card or a big bill to pay today. bad sign for a really great lunch place.

Why's the Bay Bridge falling down?

some repair fuckup from that crack they found during labour weekend. apparently a big cable or something came loose and crashed out on 3 cars. bridge expected to be closed for the next 24hrs.