When Bridges Attack: SF's Bay Bridge Closes Indefinitely
Where you perhaps planning on driving over to Oakland from San Francisco to check out why we named Oakland as one of the Five Cities With A Bad Rap worth visiting? It's too bad you'll be cut off from the goodness for who knows how long, after steel cables snapped last night, hitting three cars on the roadway below and stopping up traffic for over two hours.
There were no injuries when the bridge cracked its metal whip, but repairs and general safety issues will keep the region's busiest bridge shut down at least through tonight. Granted, the pieces that snapped were themselves an emergency repair made over Labor Day weekend, but now we're generally worried about bridge fatigue; perhaps we should be putting pennies into boxes for "Save The Steel Bridges" instead of Ronald McDonald House?
Public transporation options, after the jump.
But here at Jaunted, we like to look on the bright side: perhaps this bridge closure will help familiarize more car-dependent commuters with the public transportation system. The BART mobilized immediately after the incident, and during the closure it expects to run extra trains, using "every available piece of equipment" so that it's not the commute that changes, but the mode of transportation.
Expect Golden Gate Ferry to also be running extra ferries throughout the closure, so perhaps you'll get a nice boat ride with that daytrip to Oakland.
Related Stories:
· Bay Bridge closed after repair falls apart [SFGate]
· San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to Be Closed [AP]
· Five Cities With A Bad Rap: Oakland, 2 Legit 2 Quit [Jaunted]
· Bridges coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: Noah Berger/SFGate]
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