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Old 11-02-2009, 12:17 PM
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Bay Bridge reopening still in the air

San Francisco, California (CNN) -- The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will remain closed Monday morning, and officials said Sunday that they can't predict exactly when it will open for business again.

Engineers headed into their sixth night of repair work Sunday with plans to stress-test work done thus far, said Bart Ney, a spokesman for the California Department of Transportation.

Crews performed stress tests Saturday night, Ney said at a news conference, but the results showed the potential for metal grinding, which could cause another break.

Two steel rods and a steel crossbeam plummeted from the bridge Tuesday night. Vibrations in the rods, affected by strong winds, caused the break, officials said.

After stress tests prove successful, engineers will do a vibration test, Ney said. They might have trucks driven on the lower deck of the bridge to simulate the effect of vibration, he explained.


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Old 11-02-2009, 12:20 PM
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Yeah, every 5 minutes they are talking about it. Just open the damn thing.

*update*
8:45 am PST is the target time. On the news now.

*One more time*
Waiting for the "sweeps". Should be open within 20 minutes.
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Old 11-02-2009, 12:22 PM
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I dare you to walk across it...heh
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Old 11-02-2009, 12:57 PM
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I dare you to walk across it...heh
No.

It's O-P-E-N
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Old 11-03-2009, 01:55 AM
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Seriously it got damaged 20 years ago from Loma Prieta, fix it already!
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Old 11-09-2009, 10:17 AM
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Accident # 44 since they put in the S-curve. Fatality. A big rig flipped over the side because he was going 50 instead of the posted 40/35. It dropped 200 ft and smashed to pieces. Yeah, it's that sharp and that quick. I've driven it.

It's 630 am and I'm watching the news.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sec...fic&id=7107688
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