Bay Bridge Back in Business

Emergency Repairs of Snapped Rod Complete, Calif. Officials Say

(AP)  The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is open to traffic again following emergency repairs, ending days of frustration for Northern California commuters.

California Department of Transportation spokesman Bart Ney had warned that drivers should prepare to find alternate routes for the Monday morning commute then announced the span would reopen.

Engineers have been working furiously to complete repairs to a section of the bridge where two rods and a crossbar fell into rush-hour traffic lanes Tuesday.

Ney says workers made significant progress overnight to assure the bridge's safety and were doing final inspections.

[barbaram99]

I am childless and I have to pay for schools..I can't drive due to blindness but do use mass transit. Am in Seattle. Every one pays for the bridge and road. It is taxes nation wide. I hate war. We all pay for that. IT IS TAXES. It don't matter where we each live. The nation wants its taxes..The state wants its taxes. The city wants its taxes. They get the taxes...Taxes must be paid..

[DaVicar8]

How do they figure that NOT being allowed to drive over a bridge that is slowly falling into SanFrancisco Bay is "out of luck"?

[rightbehind]

Infrastructure is falling apart. Good thing President Obama has the stimulus funds to fix it. I would say a second stimulus is in order.

[chevyhotrod]

Why don't the people of San Francisco pay for their own bridge? Why does everyone in the entire US have to pay for it. I have never seen the bridge and I will never use this bridge. Please explain to me why I have to pay for it, if I live in Ohio?

Maybe all the corporate big wigs in San Fran can pay for it with their bonus money?