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The Bay Bridge is driving me crazy

:: Wednesday, May 24th, 2006 @ 1:29:44 am

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I’ve only been back for a few days and I gotta say: the Bay Bridge is a f’in nightmare. I arrived home (to SFO) late Sunday evening, and by the time Geoff and I made an attempt by car to get me and my 200 lbs of luggage back to Oakland, the now-standard midnight traffic on the Bay Bridge was already terrible. We aborted, and I spent the night at their place in the city.

CalTrans currently reports:

I 80 [SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA] IS CLOSED TO EASTBOUND TRAFFIC FROM THE JCT OF US 101 TO 4TH ST /IN SAN FRANCISCO/ (SAN FRANCISCO CO) FROM 0001 HRS TO 0600 HRS 7 DAYS A WEEK THRU 6/2/06 – DUE TO CONSTRUCTION – A DETOUR IS AVAILABLE

… but because the detour used to start at 1AM, I have been operating under that assumption and heading home each night at around 12:15am. By then, traffic is already really bad, and tonight was no exception. I left San Francisco at 12:05am and wasn’t able to get onto the bridge for over half and hour. It gets worse. There was a surprise onramp switch (chaos!!), and the four-way intersection just before the onramp was completely jammed with cars and honking taxis trying to squeeze into the lane that would eventually lead to the bridge. People were pissed.

… but I suppose tonight was better than the first time I discovered the existence of the detour, which resulted in a 3.5-hour trip across the bay (home at around 4:30am!). THAT truly sucked.

Whoever is organizing the bridge construction is completely incompetent. Don’t even get me started on the weird-ass 5th-Street-offramp / bizarre-right-jog on westbound 80 just past the bridge. That thing causes traffic at nearly all hours of the day.

I’m tempted to move away — or back to San Francisco — until the bridge construction is done.

| Oakland, CA | link | trackback | May 24, 2006 01:29:44
  • Chester

    Hey — there’s always the San Mateo!

  • Anastasia Laity

    I think you should move to SoCal.

  • http://www.davidpatchen.com davepatchen

    C’mon back to SF!

  • EggRollMonster

    I went to the Chinese Consulate to get my visa today (the one on Laguna Street). I was stuck at the Bay Bridge toll plaza for almost 20 minutes. It sucks! No wonder people buy the FastTrak pass.

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  • http://echeng.com echeng

    I’ve gotten a bunch of e-mail telling me to check the bay bridge info site for closure information. While it is a good site, the page I happened to bookmark (entitled, “closures and detours“) doesn’t have dates for the eastbound full-desk closure this weekend! The front page prominently displays the correct information, but the actual closures page does not. Strange.

    Also, while the front page’s “11:59am June 3″ description is good, all of the signs around the Bay Area show “June 4 MIDNIGHT,” which I’ll bet a lot of people are going to interpret as midnight the evening of June 4.

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