But a couple non-essential things in the article don't seem to add up. As far as I know it was part of the WESTERN section of the bridge that collapsed during the quake and it was fairly quickly fixed. I'm not aware of quake damage to the eastern section. It was later that they decided to replace the entire cantilevered eastern section with a suspension bridge. That project took a long time and is which I believe this article is about. Not clear under those circumstances what the timing crisis was all about since the old cantilevered section was used until the new bridge was finished.
No, I believe it was the eastern section that had a deck collapse right where the bridge approached the truss section.
No. It was the eastern cantilever span that failed. The western suspension section did fine.