The San Francisco Bay Bridge is closed this coming weekend

Danny Tse
Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
edited September 2009 in The Clubhouse
Just in case one of you are coming to the Bay Area.

One of the busiest bridge in the country will be closed for 4 days, starting tonight

20 years after the 1989 earthquake and we still don't have a replacement eastern span finished. For the record, the entire Bay Bridge was build within 3 years back in the 30s. :rolleyes:
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited September 2009
    I live on the coast as well, I know all about the pain of closing bridges.
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited September 2009
    Given that a whole new section of the Bay Area will be in place on Tuesday morning, the work commute will be hellish.
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited September 2009
    I can only imagine. I live on the southside of 2 land masses that are connected by various bridge tunnel combinations.....Its never a good thing.
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited September 2009
    Btw, here's a pic of the old portion of the bridge (to replaced) with the newly constructed portion. Oakland (on the right side), Emeryville (home of Pixar), and Berkeley (on the left) are in the background.

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  • POIDOG
    POIDOG Posts: 391
    edited September 2009
    Danny Tse wrote: »
    Btw, here's a pic of the old portion of the bridge (to replaced) with the newly constructed portion.
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    Whoa, is that the Bridge to nowhere :confused:
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,714
    edited September 2009
    heh. I lived out there (in the South Bay) for Loma Prieta.
    I didn't realize they were finally rebuilding the Bay Bridge.
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited September 2009
    looks a lot nicer than the old one!

    Now this is the bridge to nowhere...this is the north end of the Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel looking south to Virginia Beach Va. I think its around 20 miles long. $9 one way.

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,714
    edited September 2009
    Actually the photo looks to me more like the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on US-50 connecting Annapolis (more or less) MD to Kent Island and the Eastern Shore... The two bridges were built about 25 years apart and aren't identical.

    Are there now parallel spans on the Bay Bridge Tunnel in VA?
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited September 2009
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Actually the photo looks to me more like the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on US-50 connecting Annapolis (more or less) MD to Kent Island and the Eastern Shore... The two bridges were built about 25 years apart and aren't identical.

    Are there now parallel spans on the Bay Bridge Tunnel in VA?

    Now I am getting homesick. I wonder if I can talk my father into moving into a retirement home, and I can move into his house on the Wye River. :rolleyes:
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  • Vdr1973
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    edited September 2009
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    heh. I lived out there (in the South Bay) for Loma Prieta.
    I didn't realize they were finally rebuilding the Bay Bridge.

    The bay Bridge was repaired and fully operational within a month of the
    earthquake. This is an entirely new Bridge.
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  • Knucklehead
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    edited September 2009
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Actually the photo looks to me more like the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on US-50 connecting Annapolis (more or less) MD to Kent Island and the Eastern Shore... The two bridges were built about 25 years apart and aren't identical.

    Are there now parallel spans on the Bay Bridge Tunnel in VA?

    From the website:

    For over 44 years, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel has captured worldwide attention as a modern engineering wonder and an important East Coast travel convenience. Crossing over and under open waters where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean, the Bridge-Tunnel provides a direct link between Southeastern Virginia and the Delmarva Peninsula (Delaware plus the Eastern Shore counties in Maryland and Virginia), and cuts 95 miles from the journey between Virginia Beach and points north of Wilmington, Delaware.

    Following its opening on April 15, 1964, the Bridge-Tunnel was selected "One of


    the Seven Engineering Wonders of the Modern World" in a worldwide
    competition that included more than one hundred major projects. In addition, in 1965, it was distinguished as "The Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement" by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

    To date, over 100 million commercial and passenger vehicles have crossed the Bridge-Tunnel. In order to meet future traffic demands and provide for a safer crossing, construction of a parallel crossing project began in summer 1995, and opened to four-lane traffic on April 19, 1999. No less challenging than construction of the original span, this project once again drew focus to a remarkable achievement in engineering and construction.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,714
    edited September 2009
    Vdr1973 wrote: »
    The bay Bridge was repaired and fully operational within a month of the
    earthquake. This is an entirely new Bridge.

    I see that; that's what I meant by rebuilding, sorry that wasn't clear.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,714
    edited September 2009
    Knucklehead wrote: »
    From the website:

    For over 44 years, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel has captured worldwide attention as a modern engineering wonder and an important East Coast travel convenience. Crossing over and under open waters where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean, the Bridge-Tunnel provides a direct link between Southeastern Virginia and the Delmarva Peninsula (Delaware plus the Eastern Shore counties in Maryland and Virginia), and cuts 95 miles from the journey between Virginia Beach and points north of Wilmington, Delaware.

    Following its opening on April 15, 1964, the Bridge-Tunnel was selected "One of


    the Seven Engineering Wonders of the Modern World" in a worldwide
    competition that included more than one hundred major projects. In addition, in 1965, it was distinguished as "The Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement" by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

    To date, over 100 million commercial and passenger vehicles have crossed the Bridge-Tunnel. In order to meet future traffic demands and provide for a safer crossing, construction of a parallel crossing project began in summer 1995, and opened to four-lane traffic on April 19, 1999. No less challenging than construction of the original span, this project once again drew focus to a remarkable achievement in engineering and construction.


    There's a nice photo on the inner sleeve of one of Bruce Hornsby's albums of a stretch of the Bay Bridge Tunnel (he's from somewhere down that way, yes?).

    I didn't know that the latter was a twin span now (it wasn't when originally built); thanks.
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  • Knucklehead
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    edited September 2009
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    There's a nice photo on the inner sleeve of one of Bruce Hornsby's albums of a stretch of the Bay Bridge Tunnel (he's from somewhere down that way, yes?).

    I didn't know that the latter was a twin span now (it wasn't when originally built); thanks.

    Yep, your right, I think he's from Williamsburg, awesome piano player, I saw him about 20 years ago at a local club just before he became popular, he was still playing Elton John and Billy Joel stuff.:p
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