From K-QED.

Mostly Friday Light, Berkeley traffic a little sluggish.

There's a crash reported.

It is problem in Livermore, 580 eastbound at the North Livermore-on-Ramp.

Freeway problem is that the Babbridge Toll Plaza, where it's starting to back up toward the maze, not quite, but westbound past the meter ring lights might be a new crash.

Joe McConnell for KQED.

If you listen to KQD radio in the mornings, chances are good you've heard Joe McConnell.

101 San Francisco before hospital curve north of

Caesar Chavez still of a crash.

The traffic reporter has been at it for 31 years,

delivering live traffic reports as often as six times an hour on KQED.

That's the public radio station where this podcast Bay Curious is made.

His reports reach millions of people in their cars and at work,

people like our question asker, Trish Taylor of Redwood City.

Trish is amazed at how it sounds like Joe is right there

on the side of the road, often describing whatever mundane object is blocking a lane.

Westbound San Pablo Dam Road, two right lanes, looks like a broken pallet, some boxes, and a whole bunch of nails.

Walna Creek Southbound 680, it looks like a bathtub in the right lanes near the

Vasca Road north of Livermore, not one, not two, but CHP trying to wrangle at least

a dozen cows in the lanes.

She wants to know how Joe and other traffic reporters stay on top of the traffic.

I'm Olivia Allen Price.

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