Police stopped dozens of dirt bikers on the east side of the Bay Bridge on Sunday night, blocking all lanes and snarling traffic for nearly two hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Around 5:45 p.m., Oakland police and California Highway Patrol officers initiated traffic enforcement against a large group riding dirt bikes and all-terrain vehicles from San Francisco to Oakland, who had been \u201ccreating havoc,\u201d said Officer Mark Andrews, a spokesman for\u00a0CHP San Francisco.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Law enforcement briefly stopped all lanes of eastbound traffic on the bridge, before re-opening two lanes, Andrews said. The remaining lanes had been expected to re-open around 7:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Andrews said the riders abandoned their dirt bikes and fled on foot. Oakland police arrested two people.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officials impounded 50 to 60 dirt bikes and ATVs, Andrews said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was a necessary step to hopefully have the individuals learn that this is improper behavior and we will not tolerate it on our roadways,\u201d Andrews said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As the incident unfolded, cars\u00a0heading from San Francisco to Oakland on the Bay Bridge encountered a massive traffic back-up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Google Maps suggested drivers route over the Richmond bridge.<\/p>\n
A livestreamed traffic camera from ABC7 at 7:40 p.m. showed traffic flowing normally westbound, while eastbound traffic on the lower deck of the western span still appeared largely stalled, with tail and brake lights glowing.<\/p>\n
Numerous drivers reported being stuck on the bridge on social media.<\/p>\n
This story is developing. Check back for updates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police stopped dozens of dirt bikers on the east side of the Bay Bridge on Sunday night, blocking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[184,7,332,143,145,144,101,3766],"class_list":["post-298632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-east-bay","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}