| Monday, April 30, 2007 |
| Traffic hell |
I am feeling glum today. I have about a zillion things to do so I can't really afford to sit around feeling glum, but there you go.
What has me in a funk? Just the fact that the entire transportation infrastructure in the East Bay is going to be royally screwed up for months to come. In case you haven't heard, check out this article from the Associated Press, charmingly titled "Bay Area Commuters Face Nightmare." Very early Sunday morning, a speeding gasoline tanker crashed into a section of guardrail, demolishing a section of the highway known as the MacArthur Maze. As you might surmise from the name, the Maze, located near the westbound approach to the Bay Bridge, was pretty messed-up before, the location of frequent traffic jams. Now a big chunk of it is missing.
Apparently, traffic has been pretty light today, the result of saturation news coverage of the event and free public transit for all. But in a few days, folks are going to get back in their cars and it's going to be ugly indeed.
Since I work at home and am also a regular user of public transit, I can avoid the affected location as much as possible, but it will still affect my life. Eastbound trips that used to take 15-20 minutes will be subject to huge delays and detours; even trips that don't go through the Maze, like westbound I-80 to the Bay Bridge, will likely take much longer due to the inevitable traffic jams sure to result from this incident. I have an appointment in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood tomorrow that requires driving, so I used Mapquest to find a non-highway route.
It's amazing that one guy can do this much damage by accident. Imagine if someone wanted to wreak havoc on our fragile infrastructure. It's scary to contemplate. |
posted by 125records @ 12:29 PM  |
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Who's responsible for the fact that we don't all have jetpacks by now? Whoever it is, they gotta pay. It'd be a lot easier to get around.
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Who's responsible for the fact that we don't all have jetpacks by now? Whoever it is, they gotta pay. It'd be a lot easier to get around.