SFist: Day Around The Bay

sfmike

Fri, 25 May 2007 09:59:51 -0800

The AP wire is running a story this morning which I found in "The Desert Sun," an online Palm Springs paper of all places, questioning the safety of the rebuilt Maze: Department of Transportation officials maintain the rebuilt structure, scheduled to be open in time for this morning's commute, is sound. "We have compromised nothing in terms of integrity, safety and reliability," said Kevin Thompson, Caltrans state bridge engineer. But civil engineering professor Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl is questioning that, saying it would have been better if the four supporting piers, which he said were also damaged during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, had been demolished and rebuilt. Astaneh-Asl a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has a $25,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the collapse, said he saw a crack inside one of the piers after a sample had been drilled out for testing. He said he needs more information before he can be convinced the structure can withstand a major earthquake. "I really am not going to cross that bridge unless Caltrans releases the information about how and why they decided that bridge is safe to open up," he said.

SFluxe

Fri, 25 May 2007 08:25:05 -0800

Where's the funny picture of Al Gore? Looks like his normal puffy-faced ponderous self to me.

Jerry Jarvis

Fri, 25 May 2007 01:36:00 -0800

A; Another day around the Bai Q:-Higher Co2 emitts -Go with EchoStar.I do -Supervisor Ed finds himself in a Stew -GOre Solar and store that energy in cells of lead -Hurrah for our MUNI blog thug team Matty and Greg.And they ain't done.Thanks Jamison. -Black is styll the down town hack.

Daniel

Thu, 24 May 2007 23:48:42 -0800

M y friend and I guess it is exciting that those people get to be the first people to drive on the highway.