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What Happened To the Bay Bridge?

Posted by kdawson on from the span-in-the-works dept.

farnsworth writes "Tony Alfrey has put together a fascinating page with some history, analysis, and possible explanations for what ultimately went wrong with the recent emergency repair of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The bridge has been closed for days and is not scheduled to open for days to come, hugely inconveniencing more than 250,000 people a day. His analysis touches on possibly poor welding, a possibly flawed temporary fix, and the absence of a long-term fix or adequate follow-up by Caltrans, the agency responsible for the bridge. Slashdot is a great engineering community; what other insights do you have on the bridge situation?"

4 of 407 comments (clear)

  1. Re:still dead! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Developers are just engineers of software!

  2. Bridges?? Let me tell you about World of Warcraft! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dunno much about bridges, but I can tell you a lot about ramping elven fighter-mages up to 86th level in WoW!!!

  3. What happened to the Bay Bridge? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's simple, really. God has lifted his veil of protection over the city of San Francisco because He is angry about the needle drugs, the cannabis dispensaries, and the faggots running amok. San Francisco has been flouting God's laws for well over three decades. I mean faggots have PARADES there! It's disgusting, and it's evil.

  4. Re:Rushed by maxume · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Aren't you 15? Or are you 16 now?

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