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San Francisco bridge closes after cable snaps (Oops)
The Fresno Bee ^
| 10-27-09
| LISA LEFF and JOHN MARSHALL
Posted on 10/28/2009 9:27:43 AM PDT by Enterprise
Authorities on Tuesday closed a major bridge connecting San Francisco and Oakland after a cable on its upper deck snapped during the evening commute.
(Excerpt) Read more at fresnobee.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: bridge; cable; commuters; sanfrancisco
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"The bridge closure was expected to cause a traffic nightmare during the morning commute. The California Highway Patrol was alerting Bay Area transit operators about the closure so they could try to prepare for a crush of additional passengers Wednesday."
To: Enterprise
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posted on
10/28/2009 9:28:50 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: Enterprise
Other bridges are out too, including the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland, Champlain Bridge in Vermont and a few other i can’t immediately recall. what’s up with these bridges ???
To: Enterprise
Cable just installed last month according to news reports.
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posted on
10/28/2009 9:30:53 AM PDT
by
Carley
(OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
To: Perdogg
Well, they can start spending some of that shovel ready money now I guess.
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posted on
10/28/2009 9:30:53 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
To: Enterprise
No, no...obviously Bush’s fault.
And - of course - since it’s an engineering problem, completely beyond the Obamaloon administration capability to detect and fix.
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posted on
10/28/2009 9:31:17 AM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: Carley
I know. No doubt CAL TRANS and a couple of lawyers are taking a long hard look at this.
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posted on
10/28/2009 9:31:57 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
To: Da Coyote
Silly Coyote. It’s more important for the Obama administration to queer up elementary schools than it is to fix roads and bridges.
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posted on
10/28/2009 9:33:04 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
To: MissDairyGoodnessVT
what’s up with these bridges ???
Decades of infrastructure funding redirected to social programs, pork, and fraud.
I have a feeling that things will get a whole lot worse in the near future, and that's just what you can see.
Underground in most major cities, it's even worse.
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posted on
10/28/2009 9:33:34 AM PDT
by
chrisser
(Tweet not, lest ye a twit be.)
To: Da Coyote
If ACORN or SEIU can’t be given money to fix it then Obama doesn’t care. Obviously bridge engineering and fixing is for those evil rich people - the “rich” who don’t grease Obama’s palm.
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posted on
10/28/2009 9:33:58 AM PDT
by
Aria
( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
To: Enterprise
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posted on
10/28/2009 9:34:15 AM PDT
by
TChris
(There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
To: MissDairyGoodnessVT
Bridges require constant safety inspections. Even when engineers determine that fixes must be implemented, the politicians stall. It’s more important to have Medicare for illegal aliens and condoms for elementary school children than it to fix the infrastructure of America. One must have priorities.
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posted on
10/28/2009 9:35:19 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
To: Enterprise
“...a major bridge connecting San Francisco and Oakland”
“The bridge, a California landmark...”
“...a piece of metal roughly 3 feet long fell onto the bridge’s westbound lanes...”
“The bridge closure was expected to cause a traffic nightmare during the morning commute...”
Did anyone else notice that the article never identifies to which bridge they are referring? Leave it to the Fresno Bee!
I guess we can assume the Bay Bridge, but you know what they say about making an ASS(of)U(&)ME.
To: Perdogg
Hey, it’s part of the mess Our Messiah inherited. /sarc
To: Enterprise
Things have gotten so bad in San Francisco that now even the bridge is jumping off the bridge!
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posted on
10/28/2009 9:37:43 AM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(HARDCORE RRREDNECK! yip yip)
To: Enterprise
No matter the snide comments that arise on this thread, the response appears commensurate with the event. If the bridge is new, then the investigation should pinpoint whether the design was bad or the implementation was off. (Note: Failure to properly understand the loads due to rush hour traffic is a requirements/design issue.)
If the bridge is older, one would need to decide if the installation had been degraded by time and weather, as well.
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posted on
10/28/2009 9:40:18 AM PDT
by
MortMan
(Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
To: TChris
The cable is racist and homophobic!
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posted on
10/28/2009 9:40:21 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
To: Enterprise
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posted on
10/28/2009 9:41:17 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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posted on
10/28/2009 9:42:19 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
To: Enterprise
I wouldn’t worry too much. I hear that the bridge is too big to fail.
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posted on
10/28/2009 9:42:34 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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