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Tough commute likely after Bay Bridge rod snaps

Bridge closure

San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/27/national/a225546D58.DTL

Oct 28, 2009

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has been closed indefinitely after a rod installed during last month's emergency repairs snapped, causing a traffic nightmare. Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, a civil engineering professor at UC Berkeley, who has spent 20 years studying the Bay Bridge, called the initial crack a "warning sign" of potentially bigger safety issues with the bridge. "The repair they were doing was really a Band-Aid," said Astaneh-Asl, who criticized Caltrans at the time for rushing to reopen the bridge.