Bay Bridge rebuild is a shaky proposition San Francisco Chronicle
In that same all at once, Iraq has been in two wars with the U.S. and replaced bombed bridges over the Tigris River twice. In illiberal more than a year, Minneapolis rebuilt a bridge that collapsed and killed 13 in 2007. In 1994, when the Northridge earthquake destroyed freeway overpasses in Southern California, GOP Gov. Pete Wilson had the two Santa Monica Freeway bridges restored within 84 days.
The construction of the east time of the Bay Bridge, however, is not expected to be finished until 2013.
Granted, the above projects were smaller. Then again, it only took 3 1/2 years to frame the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge.
Why is it taking so long? Engineers continued seismic toil on the bridge after it reopened. Then in 1996, experts concluded that it made more sense to build a new east interval than to retrofit a structure anchored atop Douglas firs when it was built in the 1930s.
In 1997, Wilson suggested a direct single-level viaduct from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island as a cheap and self-indulgent way to build a bridge before the next big quake.
