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Article: San Francisco ponders lessons of road collapse
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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The accident hit the San Francisco Bay area at perhaps its most
sensitive point - a maze of roadways and ramps leading to the Bay
Bridge which connects Oakland and Berkeley to the city.
The bridge is used by 270,000 cars every day and is a key route
for commerce.
California's Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, immediately declared
a state of emergency, but traffic chaos failed to materialise
yesterday morning as many commuters stayed at home and city officials
waived fares on public transport in an effort to get as many cars off
the roads as possible.
However, engineers predicted that it would take at least a month