Governor picks simpler Bay Bridge plan Stylish design to be abandoned in favor of skyway in response to mushrooming costs
Well, thank god. Common sense prevails. The egos of the local politicians has caused unbelievable delays and escalating costs. "Signature" bridge. What horse manure. We need a new bridge so that when the next earthquake hits, it won't fall into the bay and kill thousands of people. But no, we have to have a PRETTY bridge! What morons.
I just love over-the-top comparisons.
Good Grief - Is this STILL going on....Reason 485 for leaving the Bay Area.
If you've ever driven out of Hong Kong to the Airport or Taken the Ferry from Hong Kong to Macau or the Mainland, you've seen those Single Pillar bridges. Very nice, interesting design, large openings for many ships.
Contrasted to such atrocities as the Pulaski Skyway(Newark NJ) or something equally aweful like the Goethals Bridge(NJ to Staten Island), you'd be inclined to agree with the Chernobyl description.
That said, with the state of the state in CA, they should build it out of cheapest possible materials, appearance be damned.
So they've already poured all the foundations and actually built up columns on them. Does these mean they need to tear all of that out? It's already taken about 3 years to put them in.