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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- | |
| 5000 lbs of metal break off of Bay Bridge during rush hour | |
| 2009-10-29 | |
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| Posted by:lotp |
| #6 dam good thing this didn't happen up here in WA; after the Thanksgiving 2007 EMERGENCY parking af all 4 steel electric ferries after 'some' rust was found in their 80+year old hulls; Good Queen Chris (D-Stupid) would have taken this bridge out of service and replaced it with 2x12s and pallets ( the S/E @ 60+ cars each were replaced with 1 44 car only good in blue sky calm water weather. cut cross-sound commerce to less than 25% of prior). And don't get me started on the Seattle Viaduct mess....... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2009-10-29 19:54 |
| #5 I have this mental picture of Arnod holding the span in place and caling for supports, which he then jams in place with a free hand and teeth. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-10-29 18:57 |
| #4 I'm not sure why the Golden state should fix it. Seems to be a problem for San Francisco specifically. I'm really not sure why we haven't pushed for ten hour day/four day work weeks to cut down on traffic and stuff. Get those people off the bridges and out of traffic at least one day a week. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2009-10-29 17:12 |
| #3 there's been problems for quite some time as I understand it. The part that broke was a temp fix for the Labor Day steel beam failure/shutdown. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-10-29 11:11 |
| #2 If you'd stopped fining people for working to pay people to be idle "maybe" you'd have enough money for infrastructure maintenance.... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-10-29 09:18 |
| #1 Stim money for all sorts of pork and patronage, but not one red cent for America's infrastructure. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-10-29 08:44 |