Posted on 11/23/2016 7:36:08 AM PST by glasseye
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The Golden Gate Bridge is in need of some love and its corrosion in causing concerns.
While the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge regularly gets a paint job to prevent rust, the Golden Gate Bridge doesn’t receive the same attention.
The Caltrans bridge painters hunkered down on a wooden platform, suspended mid-air are painting and re-painting the western span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
You just know they will paint it rainbow with a little unicorn on top.
Anodes protect metal underwater. The water acts as part of the electrical circuit.
Lol
Anodes are used for above-ground structures and buried structures as well. you simply bury the anode and attach a conducting cable to the anode and the structure and you have an instant battery circuit.
It’s a Sanctuary City! They don’t need to get anywhere...Let the damn bridge fall into the bay.
I am surprised it’s only 7 bucks. Could be the cheapest bridge in the country. New York is almost 20 a bridge. A little less with ez pass.
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“After being stationed in Japan for several years, my folks and I sailed back to the US and under the Golden Gate Bridge into Oakland. The ship we sailed on was the MSTS General W. A. Mann. The trip took two weeks to cross...”
My family sailed from Fort Mason Pier in SF to Hawaii on the Mann in 1961. Took five days. Only entertainment was a tetherball on the quarterdeck, playing with a shortwave radio set-up off the “dining room,” and walking our pets on the fantail.
3 days into the trip me and a pal were playing with the tetherball when the rope parted and the ball sailed over the side into the Pacific. So much for that.
I remember tuning the short-wave one day and finding a Hawaiian radio station playing - you guessed it - Hawaiian music. The movie “Tora Tora Tora” has a scene where the Japanese sailors do the very same thing aboard their carrier on the way to bomb Pearl Harbor.
San Francisco, and Hawaii, were much, much different - and better - places in 1961 than they are today.
It probably does, since the main pilings are underwater. But even with that, the bridge is closing in on the century mark, and has had to withstand the salt-heavy climate of the Bay. I’m impressed that it’s lasted as long as it has.
What will be even more impressive is the construction project to replace it. Will they try to replace the various components of the bridge in-situ? Will they build a new one parallel to the original? If that, will they duplicate it or try for a new design?
My next band name.
Many of the old suspension bridges in the UK, designed by Thomas Telford, used wrought iron chains as the main cables. These chains, at the time of construction, were submerged in boiling linseed oil for two weeks.
Now, after more than 150 tears in service, the chains still exhibit no signs of corrosion.
Just drove across it two weeks ago. Flew into San Fran for the first time ever and had to drive up to Tiburon. Can you see/say MONEY???? Tiburon.....
go ahead,, Jump !
A bridge is falling apart … let me guess, could San Francisco possibly have a Democratic mayor?
I am beginning to see an increasing number of leftist communities listing their infrastructure needs in hopes Trump will send a bunch of money their way.
Amazing.
While my dad stayed in Sagamihara and later Yokohama, my mom and I sailed back and forth five times in the 1950s on various MSTS ships. Except for the Oakland arrival, which including a one day stop in Honolulu, all the trips were Seattle-Yokohama or Yokohama-Seattle.
That last trip was when I was 13 years old. Japan had begun building for the ‘64 Olympics and I think only then did real recovery and rebuilding begin.
“the bridge is closing in on the century mark”
I’m closing in on the half-century mark. A century really doesn’t seem very long now, and the longevity of major structures is surprisingly short.
“I thought they NEVER stopped painting the GG Bridge. At least that’s how it used to be. They start at one end and paint to the other, and then go back to the beginning and start over.”
Well, they are not doing an adequate job. Go drive the westernmost southbound lane and take a gander at the handrails that are rusting away to nothing. The problem with the GG Bridge is that it takes a much harder beating from the weather and it’s not painted, it’s top coat is a PRIMER. The Bridge District is run by people from SF and Marin Counties, and they have continually pi$$ed away toll money for Bus and Ferry Service, bike lanes, etc., so the painting suffers. They did replace the entire concrete roadbed 15 or 20 years ago.
Well, that’s alarming! I moved out of the Bay Area in CA in 1972. In those days the bridge and highway funds were loaded with money and they were looking for legal ways to spend it. The law said that gas tax money could only be used for streets and highways, and our neighborhood got some to re-pave our street and replace curbs and gutters. But, we had to buy our own street trees. Those sneaky politicians, however, have figured ways to divert that money to other purposes and then they wonder why the infrastructure is failing.
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