Traffic early this morning was very bad on Highway 99 northbound because of a major accident killing 5 and injured several passengers. A charter bus was transporting 30 passengers from Mexico to the State of Washington, including several stops in Los Angeles, Livingston, and Sacramento, California. The bus was heading northbound on Highway 99 and crashed along the freeway by hitting a steel pole holding a freeway sign around 3:35 AM. The charter bus sliced through the steel pole of a freeway sign near Liberty Avenue in Livingston, California.

The Pokemon Go electronic game has been all over the nation and international downloads, and setting a record of the most Apple app store downloads. Guess what, Pokemon is riding along muni buses and trains in San Francisco as well, and SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) has provided tips on catching Pokemon within transit locations. That also means, if muni transit buses and trains are overloaded, maybe muni has another reason for oversize buses for passengers - Pokemon needs transportation too.

The BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) transportation system is going through many changes and repairs for service improvement ensuring passengers are safe. BART will start closing the transit system starting tomorrow between Glen Park, Balboa Park, and Daly City stations to begin critical repairs. The train tracking closures for repairs will be over 7 weekends and improvement repairs will begin this weekend. Improvement repairs will include installation of sound dampening equipment for passengers to have smooth rides while on BART trains.

The Uber San Francisco based ride-sharing company and Uber drivers, have been going through many recent challenges in San Francisco Bay Area and nationwide. This past weekend an Uber driver was arrested for sexual abuse and assault of a passenger after the pickup in Palo Alto. Other Uber drivers were arrested previously regarding passenger's safety and abusing situations during transporting activities. Uber company and drivers are continually going through legal challenges including safety concerns for traveling passengers.

The Palo Alto based car company has been constructing its battery manufacturing site in Sparks, Nevada with future optimism. The Gigafactory development site is officially open and costing amount of $5 billion for batteries to keep Tesla cars environmentally safe. The Tesla Motors and manufacturing partnerships will produce battery cells and lithiumion batteries with hopes to reduce the battery costing amounts in 2018. The factory is approximately 14% complete and about 10 million square feet thereafter full completion, and becoming one of the biggest building in the world.

The working people and commuters are encouraged to ride public transportation within San Francisco Bay Area, and now finding challenges with transportation qualified staffing. That is exactly what's happening with BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) transportation in San Francisco Bay Area with challenges to find engineering staff. BART offers $100,000 plus benefits annually for engineering and maintenance positions, considering many BART improvement projects currently happening to improve services.

The Facebook company is committed to provide funding to help with transportation along Dumbarton Bridge traffic study. The study outcomes will provide transportation assessment information for future projects to resolve traffic congestion issues surrounding Facebook. Menlo Park City Council approved the social media company to advance the west campus expansion project, and this means ways to prevent more traffic congestion within neighboring communities. Facebook will work closely with local transportation agencies and provide $3 million for Dumbarton Corridor traffic study.

The State of California transportation agency and local cities in San Francisco Bay Area have tried many ways to fight crime on highways and roadways. Including cameras on Highway-4 because of recent shootings and criminal activities within local cities effecting families and children. The highway cameras installation data and recordings are already providing positive results, because 6 criminals have been arrested and 4 cars recovered. The car owners were happy to receive their cars and criminals are processed through legal systems appropriately.

The Southwest Airlines had a computer glitch on Wednesday and leading into yesterday making things hard for traveling passengers. Including arrivals and departing flights out of San Francisco Bay Area with passengers making alternative flight plans because of flight delays and cancellation. Some passengers have to alter their connecting flights and rearrange their traveling flight plans. Passengers have to stand in longer airport check-in lines for TSA (Transportation Security Administration) clearance.

The self-driving cars conference in San Francisco is seeking more ways of ensuring safety elements are in place accordingly for autonomous vehicles. This is a major concern of people in San Francisco Bay Area and nationwide with self-driving cars considering recent fatality accidents including death. The USDOT (U.S. Department of Transportation) Secretary Anthony Foxx shared his remarks yesterday during the conference regarding more safety testing for self-driving cars.