I just finished watching a video showing the replacement of a major section of the eastern span of the Bay Bridge over the Labor Day weekend. Charismatic main contractor, C.C. Myers, ecpalined the process and made it sound very easy and straightfoward, which I'm sure it wasn't. Nevertheless, the project was completed 11 hours ahead of schedule, undoubtedly a credit to his project management.

The Bay Bridge closed at 8 pm Friday and re-opened just before 6pm on Monday evening. This is the firsttime the bridge was closed to all traffic since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

According to all reports, numbers of visitors to San Frabcisco from the East Bay were very much the same as on any Labor Day wekend and people adapted well to the closing. BART laid on extra trains and some people just went the long way round using either the Golden Gate ot the San Mateo bridge depending on where they started from.

Now once again, San Francisco is fully connected to the East Bay.