As you may have seen on the news, a gas tanker crashed and exploded on perhaps the biggest highway interchane in teh SF Bay Area this morning. The heat was so intense that it melted the steel beams holding up the freeway above the tanker, and it collapsed onto the section where the tanker was. Fortunately the driver was not seriously injured and nobody else was injured (it happened at about 4 am Sunday).
But the upshot is the southbound traffic from Berkeley to Oakland is disrupted, but at least there is a freeway alternative. Even worse is east bound traffic from SF to Walnut Creek - that will require traffic to get off onto city streets and go some eight blocks to circumvent the collapsed section.
Again I'm thankful that I have a 2 mile commute to work every morning, but this accident is really a disaster for what was already one of the most congested and busy freeway interchanges in the country. I don't often traverse that section, but even when it was fine it was always a fairly harrowing experience, esp trying to go south from Berkeley to Oakland.
And so it goes.
But the upshot is the southbound traffic from Berkeley to Oakland is disrupted, but at least there is a freeway alternative. Even worse is east bound traffic from SF to Walnut Creek - that will require traffic to get off onto city streets and go some eight blocks to circumvent the collapsed section.
Again I'm thankful that I have a 2 mile commute to work every morning, but this accident is really a disaster for what was already one of the most congested and busy freeway interchanges in the country. I don't often traverse that section, but even when it was fine it was always a fairly harrowing experience, esp trying to go south from Berkeley to Oakland.
And so it goes.