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Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge - A Case of Shadowboxing with Nature (Paperback)
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Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge - A Case of Shadowboxing with Nature (Paperback)
Series: Planning, History and Environment Series
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On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in
California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck
Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the
partial collapse of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge's eastern
span, a vital link used by hundreds of thousands of Californians
every day. The bridge was closed for a month for repairs and then
reopened to traffic. But what ensued over the next 25 years is the
extraordinary story that Karen Trapenberg Frick tells here. It is a
cautionary tale to which any governing authority embarking on a
megaproject should pay heed. She describes the process by which the
bridge was eventually replaced as an exercise in shadowboxing which
pitted the combined talents and shortcomings, partnerships and
jealousies, ingenuity and obtuseness, generosity and parsimony of
the State's and the region's leading elected officials, engineers,
architects and other members of the governing elites against a
collectively imagined future catastrophe of unknown proportions. In
so doing she highlights three key questions: If safety was the
reason to replace the bridge, why did it take almost 25 years to do
so? How did an original estimate of $250 million in 1995 soar to
$6.5 billion by 2014? And why was such a complex design chosen? Her
final chapter - part epilogue, part reflection - provides
recommendations to improve megaproject delivery and design.
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