• Bay Area freeway traffic has become an all-day, every weekday nuisance, thanks to hybrid schedules. There are certain peak times, but car-driving has rebounded and now appears to exceed pre-pandemic levels, with fewer people opting for transit. [Chronicle]
• There is still no VTA light-rail service in the South Bay, as inspections and repairs continue on 40 miles of track following widespread copper-wire thefts during the transit workers' strike. [KRON4]
• BART trains were running slower Monday morning due to wet conditions. [KRON4]
• One adult was killed and a minor was injured in a solo car crash on I-580 near Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood Sunday afternoon, after the car struck a tree. [NBC Bay Area]
• The A's have their home opener today at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento — the first time in 57 years that the team isn't playing at the Oakland Coliseum. [KRON4]
• 'Tis the season for Velella velella, or 'by-the-wind sailors,' the weird, blue jellyfish-like creatures that occasionally crash onto Bay Area beaches in a storm, as thousands of them did early Sunday on Bolinas Beach. [Chronicle]
• It's Cesar Chavez Day, which means a day off for schoolkids and some workers in California, and KQED has a primer on the life of the labor leader.

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