Comments on: Caltrans Bay Bridge delays shun private solutions https://calwatchdog.com/2013/05/20/caltrans-bay-bridge-delays-shun-private-solutions/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 05:23:23 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bob Pfahnl https://calwatchdog.com/2013/05/20/caltrans-bay-bridge-delays-shun-private-solutions/#comment-11771 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:18:10 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=42912#comment-11771 The much larger point is the cost overruns. Originally estimated at $1.5 billion, the cost has more than quadrupled. The bridge required no land acquisition or other unknowns, just connect two points.

Can you imagine what will be the ultimate cost and duration of the High Speed Rail project?

]]> By: Ernst Ghermann https://calwatchdog.com/2013/05/20/caltrans-bay-bridge-delays-shun-private-solutions/#comment-11770 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:42:40 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=42912#comment-11770 The deaths from the crushed cars were on the Nimitz Freeway and not on the Bay Bridge. Wikipedia: The highest number of fatalities, 42,[12] occurred in Oakland because of the Cypress Street Viaduct collapse on the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880), where the upper level of a double-deck portion of the freeway collapsed, crushing the cars on the lower deck. One 50-foot (15 m) section of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge also collapsed, leading to a single fatality on the bridge.

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