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Thursday, December 21, 2023

And y'all thought I was bullshitting about the Bay Bridge being jacked up


 

22 comments:

  1. Why... why would you live there?

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    1. why would anyone be willing to live with yankees and snow and ice?

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    2. The pay is good. Firemen in Oakland and S.F. can make $300,000 a year working 8 days a month.

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  2. Good Grief! If I don't get through a light on one cycle I call that horrible traffic.
    Nice bridge ya got there..
    And a whole bunch of trouble if something happened to it.

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    1. In Arizona a motorcycle can run the light (safely, of course) after the second cycle. I usually don't wait that long.

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    2. It's not the traffic, it's the assholes whose face drop to their phones everytime they stop and won't get going again till someone honks at them.

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  3. I counted 10 lanes funneling into 2. You'd best be prepared to wait awhile.

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  4. That's a picture of the old bridge. They added a whole new bridge.

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    1. No, that's the new one. The old one was had two cantilever sections just before the tunnel. This photo is of the new cable stayed suspension section.

      They didn't add a new bridge, they replaced the one that had partially collapsed in the '89 Loma Prieta earthquake.

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    2. Both the old and new bridges are nothing but a distant memory for me. Heh.

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    3. It's been 50+ years since I crossed that part of the Bay. Haven't missed it a bit.

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  5. Bardelys the MagnificentDecember 21, 2023 at 6:34 AM

    Sorry boys, I'm calling photoshop on that one.

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    1. You've obviously never been across the old Bay Bridge before.

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    2. If you posted a picture of the sunrise someone would claim it was photoshop.

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    3. And they're thinking of hiking tolls by $1.50. This was back in June. https://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/2023/06/26/1-50-bridge-toll-hike-bay-area-drivers-could-be-on-the-hook-to-help-bail-out-bart-and-other-transit-2/

      OOH!! LOOK!! More PS pictures in the article!!!!

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  6. No, that’s the new bridge and it’s not photoshopped. I just drove across it the other night, w/o traffic. And yes, it sucks to have to commute across it. No question about it.

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  7. They have the BART (train that runs under the bay) so working in the city does not mean that you HAVE to deal with that mess...but it doesn't go everywhere.

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  8. I once drove into San Francisco from Sacramento for a meeting. I was planning to change into my suit when I arrived. I ended up changing in my car during the forty-five minutes it took to get from Richmond to the toll plaza (roughly 5 miles).

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    1. Before I left California I heard that once you have the Bay Bridge in sight from Oakland, you still have another hour to go before you're actually on it.

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  9. My #2 son only has to make a trip halfway across the bay-- Oakland to Treasure Island. His business operates out of one of the stalls at the old Hobby Shop Garage.
    '81-'84 I had to make a commute from Moffett Field to the east side of San Jose when most of it was still two lanes in both directions.

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