That old bridge to the right was doing just fine but the mayors of Oakland and San Francisco, et al. had to have a billion dollar pretty bridge -- the problem now is to fix the $13-billion (includes interest on the loans) bridge before the next major earthquake.
The old bridge survived the one in 1989.
Hay wait a minute... Don't forget it was more than the two "Brown" mayors at each end of that abortion!!! Repellican Gubernatorial Dipstick Arnoiled Schwartzenrenegger was on that "band wagon" too!!!
I refuse to cross that corrupt, corroding, colossal monument to stupidity that even supersedes the Auburn Dam that was abandoned on the American River after being 2/3rds completed!!!
This is what a citizen/taxpayer gets when you replace demented Demonicrats with celebrity Repellicans. Trump is also exactly that!!!
a span dropped and killed a guy driving across. the photo made all the newspapers.
BZZZZT!!!! Wrongo! "That old bridge" had failed in a mere 6.9 earthquake with the epicenter fifty miles away. It lies immediately adjacent to the Hayward Fault, which is capable of a magnitude 8.0 or worse. You won't find an engineer anywhere who would have stood behind that cantilever span. It had to be replaced.
People died in that failure. both decks fell. If the cross links just below them had let go the whole span would have collapsed. It wouldn't have taken much more for that to happen.
I guess it depends upon what you call "survived."
No it didn’t A section of the top deck fell down on the lower deck and several pepole died driving into the hole.
Which bridge is that? I left CA in the mid 80’s and that has been built since then...
With the cracked (Chinese) bolts that thing is a death trap.