# San Mateo Bridge idiocy **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 12, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-mateo-bridge-idiocy/418984 "2007-09-12T22:29:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-mateo-bridge-idiocy/418984/21 "2007-09-19T19:16:11Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhauke] > **[CBS Bay Area - Breaking Local News, First Alert Weather & Sports](https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/)** > > Latest breaking news from KPIX-TV CBS Bay Area. Three trucks piled up in the middle of the bridge, spilling concrete and lye everywhere and causing a shutdown of all westbound lanes just in time for morning rush hour. Whee! :mad: [/QUOTE] Thanks for the link. I heard about it on the morning radio, but couldn’t visualize it. Wow–tres ugly. ---
**Author:** ![Vimp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vimp/32/4186_2.png) [@Vimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vimp)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-mateo-bridge-idiocy/418984/22 "2007-09-19T19:38:44Z")
Just to be totally depressing, Mr Roadshow (in the SJ Mercury News) said recently that sometime soon they’re going to be rebuilding the 92/880 interchange - for something like 3 years. If I want to go from SFO to southern East Bay, I think I’ll take 237. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-mateo-bridge-idiocy/418984/23 "2007-09-19T20:23:02Z")
Bay Area freeways are in a constant state of construction somewhere or other. And of course CalTrans takes 5 times as long and spends 10 times as much as they really need to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/san-mateo-bridge-idiocy/418984.md?page=1)