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Good news! The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will reopen by 9 a.m. today. Although it was initially reported that the bridge will remain closed during this morning's commute -- and, for the most part, it has -- it will open.
SFGate reports, "Tests conducted overnight and this morning on an altered version of that repair job showed that the fix was holding, Caltrans spokesman Bart Ney said."
News helicopters are circling the bridge right now (8:30) in anticipation of the big news.
The bridge, if you recall, closed six days ago when, after a less than successful repair job, a cable snapped on the eastern span during Tuesday's commute, smacking several cars. After Caltrans repaired the tie-rods and other fancy bridge mechanisms, "work crews performed a stress test Saturday evening on the repairs to see if the metal parts continued to scrape against each other and weaken the overall assembly."
Also, anti-slip measures, signs, and speed bumps have been added to certain parts of the bridge, KRON 4 Morning News reports.
Update: With a CHP escort on both ends, the Bay Bridge is once again open for business.
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"...the fix was holding..." for some reason doesn't sound like the most convincing statement. Maybe "...it still isn't falling..." would have been better?
They added fucking speed bumps!? God fucking damnit
Um, no, this is good. If these are rumble strip style things before the S-curve, they will reduce accidents.
9AM, just in time for everyone to have already taken BART to work
yep, on shortened trains and extremely crowded, no less.
why not have 10 car trains running at 830am when the bridge is not re-opened yet BART? wtf is wrong with you?