580 Freeway Collapse...

[Dean in Eureka, CA]

Traveling through the Bay Area anytime soon???
If so, check your routes...
A connector ramp collapse this morning from a firey gas tanker truck explosion and will affect bay Aera traffic for months to come...
http://www.kcbs.com/pages/401440.php?contentType=4&contentId=452934

[bledsoe3]

I just saw that on the news. What a mess that's going to be.

[Sierrajack]

Do you know another reason NOT to live in California? Not funny I know but there's always dangers involved when construction reaches such magnitudes and the traffic loads are beyond imagination.

[emiller]

I think any time a tanker with 8000 gals plus of fuel crashes under a over pass it's going to burn that pass down no matter where in the country it's at. Man it brought back memories of the collapse during the world series when that earth quake hit. But not as the magnatude of severity of that quake. Glad no one was killed on this one. Even truck drives seam there in a hurry. Coming back from the gathering this weekend I was amazed how some of these trucks drive in the mountain areas. One smelled like he was burning up his brakes bad.

[Rob]

I hate to admit it, but the driver was from Woodland. The guy had been driving for that company for a number of months, not years. It was 3:24am when, apparently, he took the corner too fast. Fortunately there was no one else on the road at the time. The driver walked away with second degree burns to his hands, arms and face. CalTrans and CHP will be doing alot of investigation into this one.

[Leon]

Do you know another reason NOT to live in California?

I guess California gas has special powers

[Lesbest]

Any bridge that carries 280,000 plus cars a day is one good reason to avoid it--you can't see what is holding you up. Thus you don't know wether to wait or get off etc. Just think of the delay if that was at 7:30 in the morning, how many cars would run out of gas a become a secondary prob. when traffic started to move? etc., etc.

We are lucky to move around the country as well as we do, but it would only take a bridge or two to snarl traffic around any big city.

Les