8 Responses:

1. John Adams says:

   9 years ago at 3:47 pm

   I guess single is the wrong word for the cable, considering during my tour of the bridge I saw 137 x 127 strands. 17,399 wires.

   • Adam A. says:

     9 years ago at 6:46 pm

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable

2. plumpy says:

   9 years ago at 4:36 pm

   That's like saying you can't call it a single rope because it's made up of many threads.

3. Russell Borogove says:

   9 years ago at 7:47 pm

   This seems like an awful lot of (expensive) engineering effort -- is it just to minimize the number of supports the span needs?

   • Jef Poskanzer says:

     9 years ago at 7:46 am

     No, it's to maximize the number of dicks that Willie Brown and Jerry Brown made everyone else eat.

     • Richard says:

       9 years ago at 1:16 pm

       Small potatoes. That's right, Willie is small potatoes, though without a doubt he got his.

       If you want villains, the former and unindicted Metropolitan Transportation Commission executive director for life, Larry Dahms, and the current inexplicably unindicted MTC ED-for-life, Steve "mini me" Heminger, are responsible for billions (with a capital "b") more public squalor and private opulence than even Willie could swing, hard and effectively as he tries.

       Somebody — ie engineering consultancies and construction companies, and people who skim handsome percentages off the top of all contracts for "management" and "oversight" — are laughing all the way to the bank. Willie's always, always, happy to help such people, but it's hopelessly naive — not to mention completely innumerate — to ascribe a five billion dollar budget blowout to a dick wagging a decade ago.

       You don't get 500% inflation from a year of delay, you know.

       • MattyJ says:

         9 years ago at 11:06 pm

         That's one beautiful chunk of bridge.

4. Mark Crane says:

   9 years ago at 4:26 pm

   I think the real hero of this operation is "Paul."