So, You're Not Taking the Bay Bridge to Work Today...And Maybe Not For a While
Categories: Breaking News, Public Transit
To reiterate what is certain to be plastered on every front page and uttered by every person on every oral and visual medium there is for quite some time, the Bay Bridge section speedily repaired during "Operation S-Curve" on Labor Day weekend crashed to the upper deck this evening.
No word yet on when life will return to normal (we called CalTrans spokesman Bart Ney several times -- but, apparently, so did everyone. His voice mail box was full).
CalTrans' Bay Bridge Twitter feed has never been so useful, by the way. Ferries and BART will do their best to shoulder the burden.
So will we. God knows we'll be writing more.
UPDATE, WEDNESDAY 8 A.M.: We've placed calls to a pair of engineers who are among the Bay Area's most prominent experts on bridges -- and why they fail. More when we hear more.
UPDATE, 9:30 A.M.: Engineer weighs in -- click here.
UPDATE, 11:20 A.M. Another Bay Area bridge had similar problems decades ago.
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