Fire Stymies BART — No Transbay Service

Commuters are abandoning East Bay BART stations in favor of finding alternative transport into San Francisco Thursday morning after a fire in West Oakland damaged the BART line there.

There is no transbay BART service from Oakland to San Francisco, though lines are running normally in the East Bay and Peninsula.

The commuter is in a pinch. A van-motorcycle crash on southbound Highway 680 was clogging traffic just before North Main Street, Walnut Creek, Thursday morning, KCBS reported.

Bus bridges have been unable to accommodate thousands of commuters stacking up in Oakland after BART officials announced that service into San Francisco was truncated.

The shutdown pushed commuters onto the roadways -- and promptly caused a huge backup at the Bay Bridge toll plaza. Ferry service is running at peak capacity and commuters are throwing in to "rent" taxis to take them to work -- only to find themselves caught in traffic.

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