Home › News ›

San Francisco Plans Quake-Resistant Bridge

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
7 March 2002 - 11:00am

New bridge planned in San Francisco, the largest public works project in California's history, will be one of the safest structures in the Bay Area.

"[An] array of seismic advances?from a main tower that acts as a 600-foot (183-meter) shock absorber to hundreds of steel piles driven deep into the San Francisco Bay mud?will make it one of the safest structures in the Bay Area if "the big one" hits.Those now crossing the bridge don't have that comfort, of course. Groundbreaking occurred last month, but the new span won't be ready for five years."

Full Story: Quake-Resistant Bridge Planned in San Francisco
Source: National Geographic, March 5, 2002
»
Bookmark and Share
“
Under the proposal, the government would assign the populace the task of counting and mapping dog droppings as a first step to greater penalties for owners who fail to clean up after their mutts.
”