Bay Bridge Closed over labor day weekend.....

In case nobody heard:

http://www.baybridgeinfo.org/

The Bay Bridge will be closed 8:00PM Friday August 31st and will re-open Tuesday 5:00AM September 4th for construction.

Jeff

Yeah, caltrans likes to do big jobs like that on holidays to F everyone up while they get triple overtime.  Last thanksgiving they had I5 down to 1 lane on a bridge up north that caused a 3 hour delay.  Whatever bastard in caltrans thought that shutting down a major highway on the biggest travel weekend of the year was a good idea aught to be shot.

Have no idea if it's true or not, but a spokesman for Caltrans said that traffic is actually lighter over Labor Day week-end than during the week or even a regular week-end.

It makes sense since you don't have all of the people going to or from work and you don't have the whole school drop-off brigade out on the streets. Traffic up here in Santa Rosa was actually very light compared to a regular weekday.

the upside was that BART had record ridership over the weekend!

Traffic up here in Santa Rosa was actually very light compared to a regular weekday.

I find that hard to believe

I wish there was some way to widen the 101 at the Santa Rosa area. That commute needs some serious work