Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Re: Caltrans Sharp S-curve on the Bay Bridge claims first life

I agree. It doesn't look like the curve is banked at all so the speed limit should be 30 mph to keep the traffic at 40 mph. What would have happened if the truck was driving in the inside lanes?
s.macie
 
In a message dated 11/9/2009 9:26:28 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, leisuresoul.avi@gmail.com writes:
Its gross mistake of speed loving people, but What i feel is that if
its adviced to follow 40km/hr then also engineer should take a margin
of 10km/hr, to save those who love to break and bend rules !

On 11/10/09, Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl <astaneh@ce.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>   Driver killed after driving off Bay Bridge
>
>
>       By: Tamara Barak Aparton
>       <http://www.sfexaminer.com/bios/41456232.html>
>       Examiner Staff Writer
>       November 9, 2009
>
>
>
> SAN FRANCISCO — A truck driver was killed this morning after losing
> control of his vehicle and plummeting over the side of the San
> Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, according to the California Highway Patrol.
>
>
> Read more:
> http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/Driver-killed-after-driving-off-Bay-Bridge-69559822.html
>
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Avi Sharma
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Department of Civil Engineering,
SRKNEC, India

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