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Isn't it known as a " Bay Bridge"? -- Geopgeop 05:45, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
== Floating Br news report interviewed a CalTrans employee that categorically stated that the bridge would not float. Here's a link to the article (and video): [1]. Does a link to a local news video count as a reliable enough source to removed the floating comment in the main article? -- C33 09:34, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
I believe the bridge scene in Anchorman was actually set in Mission Bay. As noted in the Wiki the bridge is not designed for foot traffic and stopped traffic. The bridge scene in Anchorman was a one way, two lane road, Coronado Bridge goes both ways with five overall lanes.
QUESTION: I don't get it. This part of the article makes no sense. If the scene wasn't filmed on the bridge, the bridge wasn't mentioned in the movie, the view from the bridge shows that it isn't the bridge, and everything you guys say shows it isn't the bridge....then why is it even mentioned in the article in the first place. The whole mention of the movie regarding the bridge should be deleted.....or am I missing something here? I think I'll delete it without a reason why it should be mentioned-Brian-
If anyone can help me, I am looking for a source to verify the start date that the electronic toll collection system FasTrak was first accepted on the Coronado Bridge (of course, before toll collection eventually stopped in 2002). Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 17:14, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
I removed this section from the article:
(referring to the lack of shoulders or "break-down lanes") It has been said that the reason for this was to prevent persons from leaping off the bridge to commit suicide. However, between 1972 and 2000, more than 200 suicides occurred on the bridge [2]. Considering the volume of traffic on the bridge as of 2006, should a vehicle break down or encounter another problem, it will almost certainly cause a serious collision, as there is nowhere for the disabled vehicle to go, and no way for oncoming traffic (at the posted speed limit of 50 mph) to avoid it. Another defect of this design is that it is impossible to use a bicycle to cross San Diego Bay: cyclists must either transport their machines across on the ferry at a cost (April 2006) of $3.25 each way, or travel the long way to or from Coronado via the Silver Strand.
Reasons:
In 1995 I determined I had flat tire while on the approach ramp coming from southbound Interstate 5 towards Coronado. I stopped mid-bridge (at night no less). Very scary. I got out and was getting my spare tire when just a couple minutes later a tow truck arrived. It seems that they have video surveillance and had a truck ready to go. I of course have no source other than my personal experience, but it might give someone something to go on research-wise. Eric Cable ! Talk 18:31, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
I read here that the bridge was made curved, being longer than needed, just to get federal money to help pay for it.
"Phil Cohen has this to say about the Coronado Bridge:
The original design for the Coronado Bridge was a much shorter, and almost straight span to the Island (actually, peninsula). Then in order to qualify for federal funding, (whereby our government pays most of the tab), the City of San Diego curved and lengthened the bridge to meet the minimum length standard that would qualify the Coronado Bridge for Federal funding.
How about that for an unintended consequence of taxpayer funding. They help you if yours is a long bridge, so San Diego builds a long bridge instead of a short bridge!" http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/005561.html
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.193.144.79 ( talk) 10:41, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
According to Robert Mosher, the consulting architect of the bridge, its length was determined by the navigation/height requirements as written above. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Patrice62 ( talk • contribs) 17:37, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
I'm not comfortable with editing articles, but there are a few things that I know, as a Coronado native, which are either contrary to the article or simply don't appear. They are as follows.
Londubh ( talk) 04:13, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
The official name of the bridge is the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Patrice62 ( talk • contribs) 17:34, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
No mention of Barrio Logan, the murals, the park or the uprising? All important to the history of the Coronado Bridge... Freakdog ( talk) 17:00, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
Big bridges like this one do not have a "Chief Architect" but rather a "Chief Engineer".
Big bridges like this one are not mere works of architecture, but rather they are major works of
civil engineering.
Consider the
Brooklyn Bridge. This was the work of the bridge engineers
John Roebling and his son
Washington Roebling - after the death of his father while working on the bridge.
Furthermore, look up the chief engineer of the
George Washington Bridge,
Othmar Ammann, who was awarded the
National Medal of Science in 1964
47.215.183.159 (
talk)
22:01, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
The bridge appeared briefly on the PBS NOVA Program NOVA: Why Bridges Collapse as one of many examples of bridges with a single-point of failure. Later another box girder bridge was used as one of the examples of single-point failure bridges. The bridge is also listed Transportation for America's Structurally Deficient Bridges (NBC San Diego) in 2013.
The bridge is listed in California Code, Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 188.5 as a bridge that requires needing seismic retrofit with a retrofit estimate of one hundred five million dollars ($105,000,000). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Steelgrip ( talk • contribs) 03:35, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
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Isn't it known as a " Bay Bridge"? -- Geopgeop 05:45, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
== Floating Br news report interviewed a CalTrans employee that categorically stated that the bridge would not float. Here's a link to the article (and video): [1]. Does a link to a local news video count as a reliable enough source to removed the floating comment in the main article? -- C33 09:34, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
I believe the bridge scene in Anchorman was actually set in Mission Bay. As noted in the Wiki the bridge is not designed for foot traffic and stopped traffic. The bridge scene in Anchorman was a one way, two lane road, Coronado Bridge goes both ways with five overall lanes.
QUESTION: I don't get it. This part of the article makes no sense. If the scene wasn't filmed on the bridge, the bridge wasn't mentioned in the movie, the view from the bridge shows that it isn't the bridge, and everything you guys say shows it isn't the bridge....then why is it even mentioned in the article in the first place. The whole mention of the movie regarding the bridge should be deleted.....or am I missing something here? I think I'll delete it without a reason why it should be mentioned-Brian-
If anyone can help me, I am looking for a source to verify the start date that the electronic toll collection system FasTrak was first accepted on the Coronado Bridge (of course, before toll collection eventually stopped in 2002). Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 17:14, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
I removed this section from the article:
(referring to the lack of shoulders or "break-down lanes") It has been said that the reason for this was to prevent persons from leaping off the bridge to commit suicide. However, between 1972 and 2000, more than 200 suicides occurred on the bridge [2]. Considering the volume of traffic on the bridge as of 2006, should a vehicle break down or encounter another problem, it will almost certainly cause a serious collision, as there is nowhere for the disabled vehicle to go, and no way for oncoming traffic (at the posted speed limit of 50 mph) to avoid it. Another defect of this design is that it is impossible to use a bicycle to cross San Diego Bay: cyclists must either transport their machines across on the ferry at a cost (April 2006) of $3.25 each way, or travel the long way to or from Coronado via the Silver Strand.
Reasons:
In 1995 I determined I had flat tire while on the approach ramp coming from southbound Interstate 5 towards Coronado. I stopped mid-bridge (at night no less). Very scary. I got out and was getting my spare tire when just a couple minutes later a tow truck arrived. It seems that they have video surveillance and had a truck ready to go. I of course have no source other than my personal experience, but it might give someone something to go on research-wise. Eric Cable ! Talk 18:31, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
I read here that the bridge was made curved, being longer than needed, just to get federal money to help pay for it.
"Phil Cohen has this to say about the Coronado Bridge:
The original design for the Coronado Bridge was a much shorter, and almost straight span to the Island (actually, peninsula). Then in order to qualify for federal funding, (whereby our government pays most of the tab), the City of San Diego curved and lengthened the bridge to meet the minimum length standard that would qualify the Coronado Bridge for Federal funding.
How about that for an unintended consequence of taxpayer funding. They help you if yours is a long bridge, so San Diego builds a long bridge instead of a short bridge!" http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/005561.html
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.193.144.79 ( talk) 10:41, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
According to Robert Mosher, the consulting architect of the bridge, its length was determined by the navigation/height requirements as written above. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Patrice62 ( talk • contribs) 17:37, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
I'm not comfortable with editing articles, but there are a few things that I know, as a Coronado native, which are either contrary to the article or simply don't appear. They are as follows.
Londubh ( talk) 04:13, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
The official name of the bridge is the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Patrice62 ( talk • contribs) 17:34, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
No mention of Barrio Logan, the murals, the park or the uprising? All important to the history of the Coronado Bridge... Freakdog ( talk) 17:00, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
Big bridges like this one do not have a "Chief Architect" but rather a "Chief Engineer".
Big bridges like this one are not mere works of architecture, but rather they are major works of
civil engineering.
Consider the
Brooklyn Bridge. This was the work of the bridge engineers
John Roebling and his son
Washington Roebling - after the death of his father while working on the bridge.
Furthermore, look up the chief engineer of the
George Washington Bridge,
Othmar Ammann, who was awarded the
National Medal of Science in 1964
47.215.183.159 (
talk)
22:01, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
The bridge appeared briefly on the PBS NOVA Program NOVA: Why Bridges Collapse as one of many examples of bridges with a single-point of failure. Later another box girder bridge was used as one of the examples of single-point failure bridges. The bridge is also listed Transportation for America's Structurally Deficient Bridges (NBC San Diego) in 2013.
The bridge is listed in California Code, Streets and Highways Code - SHC § 188.5 as a bridge that requires needing seismic retrofit with a retrofit estimate of one hundred five million dollars ($105,000,000). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Steelgrip ( talk • contribs) 03:35, 18 October 2019 (UTC)