Fiery Crash Collapses California Freeway

[Alex]

This guy was a local route driver so I imagine he gets normal sleep. KCBS this morning had a most inane segment this morning: "the Maze collapse has raised questions about the state of our infrastructure around the state." And then was a blowjob to some guy advocating more bond measures like were passed last fall.

Regardless of the merits of such bond measures I fail to see how this event raises questions about the state of our infrastructure and how more highway expansion projects would have helped. I'm pretty sure that if you ignite a full tanker trunk underneath just about any stretch of road in this state that you'll experience structural failures.

Strangler, on the other hand if Loma Prieta is an indication they should be able to replace a collapsed segment of road in a month (as they did with the Bay Bridge). Though it took about 11 years to replace the entire Cypress Viaduct.

As of this morning's commute the site is pretty well cleaned up. If it weren't for all the scorch marks that branch of road would just look like another off ramp to nowhere (there are already a couple of those in the maze).