Welcome to Traffic Tuesday, which is no where near as hip, fun or rewarding as Taco Tuesday, which will return next Tuesday if we manage to not blow it on the roads as badly next Monday as we did yesterday.

Monday was a tough and tragic one for Bay area commuters, as four major crashes — some fatal — crippled traffic flow along a few of the area's main arteries. Please don't mistake convenience for safety or impunity, folks. Your vehicle is not your Fortress of Solitude, your Iron Man suit or your excuse to act as if you've suddenly got diplomatic immunity.

Starting April 4, HART will be offering free wifi on all its fixed-route buses. This is great news, and probably deserves better than the predictable joke about binge-watching entire seasons of your favorite TV shows on your overlong public commute that I just made without actually making. Buses! They take forever, amirite?

And finally, the Grammys Grammy'd last night. How long before they just change the name of the show (and possibly the awards themselves) to Dead Folks, Obviously and The Sort-Of Edgy One?

This article appears in Feb 11-17, 2016.