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Article: San Francisco's $5bn bridge to nowhere The Bay Bridge is massively over budget, years behind schedule and prone to earthquake damage. Will Arnold Schwarzenegger decide to save or terminate it before the Big One strikes? By Andrew Gumbel
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- August 31, 2004
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Every day of the year, 280,000 people drive their cars across the
Bay Bridge linking San Francisco with Oakland and the sprawling
suburbs to the east. And every day of the year, a good number of them
surrender to the grim realisation that if an earthquake should hit
while they are making their way across the three-mile span, there's a
good chance the roadway will snap section by section like a line of
dominoes and they will become part of a cascade of vehicles hurtling
into each other and plummeting into the Bay.It's no secret that the
Bay Bridge, the busiest toll bridge in the United States, is
desperately unsafe. Ever since the last major quake in the San
Francisco region, back in 1989, ...