From K-QED.

All right, this is a word association game.

When I say Bay Bridge Rush Hour, what do you say?

Frustration, anxiety, regret that I didn't take part.

Doom, gloom, and misery.

You start to see whether cars are flying past or there's already traffic building up. It's either hope or horrible

disappointment.

Stopping and going and stopping and going.

All that goes through your mind is I am trapped with cars on every side of me and the last time I saw a video of this

bay bridge is it was collapsing in an earthquake.

Paralyzing terror.

It's been a while since some of us have experienced the type of rush hour

traffic that was normal pre-pandemic, but traffic is getting bad again.

And when the cars start to pile up at those metering lights an old idea

often resurfaces. Build another Bay Bridge.

As soon as the Bay Bridge was completed in the 1930s, people wanted a second bridge.

Even back then, traffic was terrible.

Did you know the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed a bridge to cross the San Francisco Bay?

Duncan Keith of San Jose did.

He studied architecture in school.

It would have been brilliant and I think it would have been very influential and possibly changed the course of how other bridges subsequent to it would have been designed.

But Wright's vision for that second bridge never materialized.

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