repairs

The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge reopened at 6:30am this morning (Tuesday) just a little late for the morning rush.  The bridge was closed Thursday night Sep 3 at 8pm, and was due to reopen 5am Tuesday Sep 8 in a long planned transition of the double deck portion of the bridge's east span as part of its replacement with a new single deck span.

Five years after it opened the Westpark Tollway in Houston has to have major repairs to remedy drainage problems in depressed segments.

Maryland Transportation Authority (MdTA) reopened the right lane of the southern span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge late Sunday, and contrary to warnings of horrendous queueing and disruptions, holiday traffic was described as flowing better than normal.

The famous Olympic Games traffic scare effect was in evidence - if you say how horrendous it's going to be, it won't be too bad.

Maryland Transportation Authority (MdTA) toll operators of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge say they have to close a lane on the damaged southern span 24/7 for two to three weeks because they need to make urgent repairs to the southern parapet of the southern span. This at the height of the summer travel season on a bridge that constitutes a bottleneck even with all five lanes in operation. (UPDATE: the closures could go on for ten weeks it is now being said. See bottom.)