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2009-10-29 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

5000 lbs of metal break off of Bay Bridge during rush hour

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Posted by lotp 2009-10-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#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|| 2009-10-29 08:44|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-10-29 09:18|| Front Page Top

#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">Frank G 2009-10-29 11:11|| 2009-10-29 11:11|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-10-29 17:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-10-29 18:57|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-10-29 19:54|| Front Page Top

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