The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District is in charge of the bridge, which 38 million vehicles crossed last year, as well as transit buses and ferry services that it estimates serve more than 9 million customers annually, according to its website.
The limo was carrying nine women passengers and a male driver when it caught fire late Saturday night on the San Mateo bridge, California Highway Patrol officer Art Montiel told The Associated Press.
Climbers head out from the BridgeClimb storefront at the foot of the bridge, proceed along a catwalk under the highway, climb several ladders and then walk up the curved span to the top.
The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District announced Monday that there will be no ferry service across San Francisco Bay between the northern California city and Larkspur and Sausalito until about 2 p.m.
Claudio Uberti is an Argentinean and the director of a government agency that since November, 2003 controls all freeway concessions (OCCOVI) and is in charge of collecting the fees on every toll booth of every road, highway and bridge in the country.
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The bridge was separated from the land-based sections of the highway on its northern and southern ends.
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Neither label indicates a bridge is unsafe for travel, the highway administration said.
In fact, over the 1, 900-mile trek, it only lost signal on two occasions: a 20-mile stretch of the Central Oregon Highway and just as I was driving onto the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
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But the closure of a key bridge along a highway leading out of Caracas, what was once a half hour commute, has turned into a four-hour ordeal.
Jacobs also points out that perhaps there is a link between the area near this highway and tragedies that have happened in history, such as the bridge collapse on I-35 in Minneapolis last August and the assassination of JFK 44 years ago near I-35 in Dallas.
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These backups also affect all of us because the bridge is on I-75, a primary highway for America's truckers.
The Federal Highway Administration concluded that the main cause was a crack that grew undetected in one of the bridge's huge chain links, but that the high volume of traffic was also a factor.
In addition to "structurally deficient, " another bridge classification is "functionally obsolete, " according to the Federal Highway Administration.
The bridge was not classified as structurally deficient, but a Federal Highway Administration database lists it as being "functionally obsolete" a category meaning that the design is outdated, such as having narrow shoulders and low clearance underneath.
Minnesota Department of Transportation bridge engineer Dan Dorgan said the term "structurally deficient" is a Federal Highway Administration rating.
"Presumably, conditions were favourable on the Bering land bridge which was more of a large filter than an open highway, " suggested Professor Poinar.
The project was part of a Street View "refresh" of California that involved a trip down Highway 1 along the Big Sur coast, including the famous Bixby Creek Bridge that spans the mouth of a coast-hugging canyon.
The NTSB recommended nine improvements to state and federal highway officials regarding inspections and how bridge designs are reviewed.
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