# Isn't San Francisco (CA) part of a peninsula? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 7, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-san-francisco-ca-part-of-a-peninsula/498969 "2009-06-07T01:36:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-san-francisco-ca-part-of-a-peninsula/498969/41 "2009-06-08T17:38:09Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > We have Cal State East Bay, formerly Cal State Hayward, but the traffic reports for the East Bay never cover south of Oakland. (On KCBS, at least.) Since I’m a traffic junkie, that is where my definition comes from. OK, then in what region do the traffic reports for I-880 between Fremont and Hayward belong, according to KCBS? I’m sure they don’t ignore them completely – there’s a backup before the 92 interchange just about every day. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-san-francisco-ca-part-of-a-peninsula/498969/42 "2009-06-08T18:22:23Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > OK, then in what region do the traffic reports for I-880 between Fremont and Hayward belong, according to KCBS? I’m sure they don’t ignore them completely – there’s a backup before the 92 interchange just about every day. They call it the Corridor, or just the Nimitz. They don’t give it a location per se. Of course they mostly ignore it - anything short of Godzilla attacking cars gets no mention, but if someone throws a tissue out of his car at the Bay Bridge toll plaza, Sky One will pick it right up. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![JCorre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@JCorre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCorre)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-san-francisco-ca-part-of-a-peninsula/498969/43 "2009-06-08T18:46:22Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > They call it the Corridor, or just the Nimitz. They don’t give it a location per se. Of course they mostly ignore it - anything short of Godzilla attacking cars gets no mention, but if someone throws a tissue out of his car at the Bay Bridge toll plaza, Sky One will pick it right up. :mad: I’ve lived in the Bay Area my whole life and grew up in Hayward. I’ve never heard it referred to as “The Corridor” The freeway (880) is indeed “The Nimitz” but it stretches from San Jose up to the Bay Bridge. I hear almost daily traffic reports about snarls on 880 right at the 92 and Tennyson exits and all of them refer to them as the ‘East Bay’ ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-san-francisco-ca-part-of-a-peninsula/498969/44 "2009-06-08T20:09:22Z")
> [@JCorre](#): > > I’ve lived in the Bay Area my whole life and grew up in Hayward. I’ve never heard it referred to as “The Corridor” The freeway (880) is indeed “The Nimitz” but it stretches from San Jose up to the Bay Bridge. > > I hear almost daily traffic reports about snarls on 880 right at the 92 and Tennyson exits and all of them refer to them as the ‘East Bay’ The Corridor actually refers to the part from Fremont to Milpitas, which is the part I drive every day. KCBS uses that term all the time. They use the Nimitz for your part, and they cover it a lot better. Back before they finished widening 880 at Mission, it backed up every day, and almost never got mentioned. They are a bit better about the bridges. I used to listen to KLIV, a San Jose station, but now they just read the [traffic.com](http://traffic.com) website. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-san-francisco-ca-part-of-a-peninsula/498969/45 "2009-06-08T21:34:08Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Of course they mostly ignore it - anything short of Godzilla attacking cars gets no mention, but if someone throws a tissue out of his car at the Bay Bridge toll plaza, Sky One will pick it right up. :mad: Same with South Bay traffic, I have to listen to a San Jose local AM station to get any mention of local traffic. What’s worse, the SF stations use lots of local lingo like “hospital curve” and “the maze” none of which are on any maps. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-san-francisco-ca-part-of-a-peninsula/498969/46 "2009-06-08T21:46:06Z")
Life in the 'burbs, eh. We can’t say we don’t ask for it. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-san-francisco-ca-part-of-a-peninsula/498969/47 "2009-06-08T23:28:20Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Same with South Bay traffic, I have to listen to a San Jose local AM station to get any mention of local traffic. What’s worse, the SF stations use lots of local lingo like “hospital curve” and “the maze” none of which are on any maps. I think there was a Mr. Roadshow article a while back decoding this. My worst is “The Cats” on 17, which I always hear as the Katz, like the deli in New York. I think the place has closed (I didn’t notice any cats on my last trips across 17) which makes it like the direction: turn left at the red barn which was torn down five years ago. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-san-francisco-ca-part-of-a-peninsula/498969/48 "2009-06-08T23:57:33Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > I think there was a Mr. Roadshow article a while back decoding this. My worst is “The Cats” on 17, which I always hear as the Katz, like the deli in New York. I think the place has closed (I didn’t notice any cats on my last trips across 17) which makes it like the direction: turn left at the red barn which was torn down five years ago. The Cats is supposed to reopen this summer: [http://catssmokehouse.com/](http://catssmokehouse.com/) I’ll grant that the place is a well-known local landmark. And it didn’t look much different shut down than it did open. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-san-francisco-ca-part-of-a-peninsula/498969/49 "2009-06-09T06:57:29Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > I think there was a Mr. Roadshow article a while back decoding this. My worst is “The Cats” on 17, which I always hear as the Katz, like the deli in New York. I think the place has closed (I didn’t notice any cats on my last trips across 17) which makes it like the direction: turn left at the red barn which was torn down five years ago. There was, but I can’t remember what “hospital curve” was. _The Cats_ has indeed closed. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-san-francisco-ca-part-of-a-peninsula/498969/50 "2009-06-09T07:16:20Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > I think there was a Mr. Roadshow article a while back decoding this. My worst is “The Cats” on 17, which I always hear as the Katz, like the deli in New York. I think the place has closed (I didn’t notice any cats on my last trips across 17) which makes it like the direction: turn left at the red barn which was torn down five years ago. The business may have closed, but [the cats](http://www.metroactive.com/metro/10.17.07/coverstory-0742.html) are still there. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-san-francisco-ca-part-of-a-peninsula/498969/51 "2009-06-09T08:32:44Z")
> [@ruadh](#): > > When I was around 18 I spent a lot of time in the San Jose area and can confirm that everyone there referred to SF as “the city”. In fact the term is used as far away as Santa Cruz, or at least it was then. Agreed. I lived in San Jose from the age of 8 until I was 33 (four years ago). I, and everyone else I knew, usually referred to San Francisco as “the city.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-san-francisco-ca-part-of-a-peninsula/498969.md?page=2)