# Bay Area Dopers: How bad will it be for you if the Bridge doesn't open tomorrow? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 7, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-dopers-how-bad-will-it-be-for-you-if-the-bridge-doesnt-open-tomorrow/509175 "2009-09-07T17:40:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-dopers-how-bad-will-it-be-for-you-if-the-bridge-doesnt-open-tomorrow/509175/1 "2009-09-07T17:40:31Z")
Looks like the Bay Bridge’s reopening tomorrow is [in limbo](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/06/BAQU19JGKE.DTL&tsp=1). If it stays closed another day, will that be a blip on your radar, or a major PITA? Mrs. AG has to go to SFO tonight, so we’ll be BARTing it, but my work commute is from Oakland to Marin, so things’ll be a little thicker, but shouldn’t be too bad if they haven’t fixed that damn crack by then. You? ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-dopers-how-bad-will-it-be-for-you-if-the-bridge-doesnt-open-tomorrow/509175/2 "2009-09-07T17:55:31Z")
“Blip” for me. I usually walk to the casual carpool and take the bus back (East Bay). It’s the same distance for me to just walk to the nearby BART station and since I live near the beginning of the line getting a seat is no problem. I work downtown literally right across the street from my BART stop. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-dopers-how-bad-will-it-be-for-you-if-the-bridge-doesnt-open-tomorrow/509175/3 "2009-09-07T17:59:25Z")
Tiny blip, with benefits. I live and work in SF, so any reduced traffic is always a plus. I take BART, from the Daly City direction to downtown, which is usually pretty un-crowded, and if they run extra trains to accommodate the extra riders, that’s another benefit. I have ridden that commute, East Bay to SF, a few times over the Bay Bridge, and I don’t know why anyone would do it who didn’t absolutely have to. And yet the number of single-occupancy cars I see every day heading home across the bridge leads me to believe that lots of people do exactly that. Not judging them, but puzzled all the same. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-dopers-how-bad-will-it-be-for-you-if-the-bridge-doesnt-open-tomorrow/509175/4 "2009-09-07T18:37:56Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Tiny blip, with benefits. I live and work in SF, so any reduced traffic is always a plus. I take BART, from the Daly City direction to downtown, which is usually pretty un-crowded, and if they run extra trains to accommodate the extra riders, that’s another benefit. > > I have ridden that commute, East Bay to SF, a few times over the Bay Bridge, and I don’t know why anyone would do it who didn’t absolutely have to. And yet the number of single-occupancy cars I see every day heading home across the bridge leads me to believe that lots of people do exactly that. Not judging them, but puzzled all the same. > Roddy For the life of me I can’t figure out why more of them don’t do the carpool - even if you aren’t going downtown you can still save 30+ minutes (and $4 toll) by picking up a couple of passengers, zipping through the toll plaza, dropping them off and then hopping right back on the freeway (I know plenty of drivers who do this). When I was looking to buy a house one of my criteria was that I’d be near carpool, AC transit and BART. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-dopers-how-bad-will-it-be-for-you-if-the-bridge-doesnt-open-tomorrow/509175/5 "2009-09-07T19:35:35Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > And yet the number of single-occupancy cars I see every day heading home across the bridge leads me to believe that lots of people do exactly that. Not judging them, but puzzled all the same. They may be single occupancy going home, but they might be casual commuting going in. There’s a CC pickup near our house and the line of cars waiting for extra people is always quite long. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-dopers-how-bad-will-it-be-for-you-if-the-bridge-doesnt-open-tomorrow/509175/6 "2009-09-08T00:26:35Z")
Day off for me. I’m serving on a federal jury in SF, but they said if the bridge is still closed, they’ll call tonight and excuse us. Which technically would mean I should go to my regular job, but my boss won’t mind me burning a last minute day of vacation since they don’t expect me anyway. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-dopers-how-bad-will-it-be-for-you-if-the-bridge-doesnt-open-tomorrow/509175/7 "2009-09-08T06:41:09Z")
Not a prob for me. Taking a few extra days off post-Labor Day :). But, as I laze on the comfort of my couch, I look forward to seeing the news tomorrow about the nasty traffic! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-dopers-how-bad-will-it-be-for-you-if-the-bridge-doesnt-open-tomorrow/509175/8 "2009-09-08T07:09:36Z")
No prob for me. I go south away from the bridge in the morning and north in the evening. I also don’t have to take any bridges, but if I chose to go home it would be on the Dumbarton Bridge, which on Friday wasn’t affected much, being too far south. Glad they found it though. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-dopers-how-bad-will-it-be-for-you-if-the-bridge-doesnt-open-tomorrow/509175/9 "2009-09-08T16:05:45Z")
Looks like they managed to open the bridge at 6:30 this morning, only an hour and a half later than originally scheduled. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-dopers-how-bad-will-it-be-for-you-if-the-bridge-doesnt-open-tomorrow/509175/10 "2009-09-08T19:06:42Z")
Shows you that government can’t do anything right. They said Wednesday, and opened it on Tuesday. 😃 That construction company is awesome. I think it is the same one who fixed the approach that was closed by the truck fire way ahead of schedule. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-dopers-how-bad-will-it-be-for-you-if-the-bridge-doesnt-open-tomorrow/509175/11 "2009-09-08T21:13:14Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > That construction company is awesome. I think it is the same one who fixed the approach that was closed by the truck fire way ahead of schedule. Yes- CC Myers. Blip for me- I walk 30 minutes to work. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bay-area-dopers-how-bad-will-it-be-for-you-if-the-bridge-doesnt-open-tomorrow/509175/12 "2009-09-08T22:44:41Z")
Blip here - just took today as a telecommute day.