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Filed under: Photo of the Day This picture taken by jrodmanjr of a fireworks display in San Francisco really caught my eye. Notice how the bright lights coming from the Bay Bridge create a bit of a vignette around the picture. The low light makes it tough to get a super crisp shot in these situations, but jrodmanjr did a nice job with this one.

The replacement of the Hoan Bridge and its associated freeway ramps with a grade level route offers many opportunities but will also require the rerouting of a portion of the 40,000 motorists that travel over the Hoan Bridge each day.

Tomorrow the toll to cross the Golden Gate Bridge goes to $6 cash, $5 for FasTrak. Don’t get caught short. The Golden Gate Bridge District, which is not managed by the Calif. Dept. of Transportation or CalTrans, sets its own tolls. The fare to cross CalTrans bridges in the Bay Area, including the Bay Bridge, remains at $4.

Just in time for the Labor Day holiday, and after days of warning people to avoid it, all lanes of the Bay Bridge are open today with normal traffic patterns. As WBAL Radio reports: State transportation officials decided suddenly, and without advanced notice to the media, to suspend work that closed one of the two eastbound lanes on the Bay Bridge on September 1.

I just drove back to town after a week in the suburbs of Portland. Driving down from 505 to I-80 to the Bay Bridge between 7:00 and 7:30 on a Saturday night, I expected the usual congestion in Berkeley and backup at the bridge toll plaza. Nothing! The drive was smooth as butter, with exactly 1 car in line in front of me at the tolls.

At the San Francisco Bay Bridge. Click to view full-sized on Flickr.

Here’s a good list of things to do in San Francisco. clipped from thingsyoushoulddo.com Websites: W Hotel San Francisco, Bliss Spa San Francisco, Yoshi’s San Francisco, Steve Tyrell, Lefty O’Douls, Frank O’Connor & The Ramp Restaurant Actually, it was only one night, but Stacey and I packed in all the fun you could possibly imagine in about 30 hours.

Don’t even thinking about trying to get over to Ocean City any time soon. Well, unless you go through Delaware and add hours of extra driving time on to your trip. Oh, but that’s if you travel at the new recommended time — after 10 p.m. Consider the Bay Bridge dead.

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Will not be posting over the next two-three days as we will be attempting to trek the NJ section of the Appalachian Trail. Meanwhile, a motley collection of pictures taken over the week...