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Great job on this production

Here it is April 2024 and Popular Mechanics has just put out a detailed story about this project, including info on CC Myers, and Carl Douglas of Stinger Welding. If we had more men like this, there is NOTHING this country can't accomplish. VERY proud to know about these men. VERY inspiring. Then Governor Schwarzenegger should be recognized for the fast decisions he made. AMAZING.

I was 15 years old then

So the contractor end up getting the 25 mil bonus?

Other people stated it too, but i was reminded of this video in light of the I-95 Collapse in Philadelphia Recently.

@StateofPA RE: I-95 in Philadelphia

Now they need to get this done to the I-95 and none of this it's going to take MONTHS to get fixed!

It's funny how inaccuracies creep in. The truck driver was assumed by the police to have been speeding and/or to be intoxicated. It turns out he wasn't speeding and he was cut off by a car and flipped over trying to avoid killing them. After escaping the truck he tried to return to it to fight the fire, but people on the ground below yelled at him to get back. He didn't have a phone so he walked to the next exit to call the fire department. After he dealt with that he asked the cab driver who was there to take him to hospital. When they arrived at hospital he tried to dig into his pockets with his burned hands to pay the cab driver, who refused to accept payment. The police report survives, and their ten month hunt to try to find a way to blame the driver, but in the end they didn't charge him with anything. So they had no reason to claim he was at fault in the first place.

jet fuel cant melt steel beams

Amazing how in 15 short years America has lost the ability to do anything like this. Now we can't count a few votes within a week!!!!! A good history lesson....but sad this type work is gone.

Isn't there a sky bridge in Florida that was built in the 80s

It’s like art work.

That 1994 earth quake could be felt in Las Vegas. I remember chandeliers swinging in Casinos here

I had a science teacher who was at the game when the earthquake happened. And now that I live in the bay (9 miles south of Hayward) I always be thinking something gone happen 😭😂😂

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the only governor that had the capability to understand what needed to be done and he got it done there was no other governor in history of California that was capable of doing that

Slimy Willie Brown was the lawyer for Neiman Marcus when they wanted to demolish the gorgeous City of Paris building and stain glass rotunda, fortunately we protested and NM kept the rotunda. He managed to name the Bay Bridge after himself, with the opposition of the citizens of San Francisco and Gov Jerry Brown.

2021 I just watched this and remember I saw cut this deck as a rookie sawcutter gave me goosebumps.

Funny how that steel melted and collapsed after only 12 minutes of being subjected to a gasoline fire, yet there are people out there that still deny that the Twin Towers collapsed because of massive jet fuel fires.

Do strong men like Kempton and CC Meyers still exist in Sacramento? And do we still create such folks in this state?

I grew up in the bay area loving the bridges there. I then moved away for many years. When I saw the plans for the new span, I didn't like it. Upon finally seeing it in person, I found it beautiful and a perfect fit. In the end, it was worth it.

Weakened by Loma, destroyed by fire, and declared structurally deficient by CALTRANS it was time to replace it. The MacArthur Maze has been the gate to San Francisco every freeway goes through here. When Loma happened the earthquake dropped two decks and weakened the foundation CALTRANS ignored it and rerouted the 880. Then this fire happened that decided it it was time to replace it.

2:03 They cut it just before the Terminator comes waliking out of the flames.

These people acting like they are making a second set of Pyramids. Its just some bridged road. This is standard engineering. The most amazing part is the flexibility of the commuters.

Probably Swift

Good and informative video. Could have done without the silly cartoons.

CC Myers was a powerful personality and leader. A great man.

' oh no... stop watch this lousy computer animation edit video at 204... not good

Guy at the end of the video is amazed that people would support workers ACTUALLY working. How far we have fallen as a society when gov clowns have created the norm that corruption and slow work should be the norm.

Great video, props to all those that contributed to the fix and making of this documentary. Thank you.

People can do amazing things when they’re allowed to.

RIP Carl Douglas CEO of StingerWelding, died in a small aircraft crash.

I still have no idea how I ended up here ( youtube's algorithm) but what a marvelous project, well planned and executed!

2007 was so 1996.

Don’t show this to 911 conspiracy theorists.

12:23: corny music starts

fucking California what a shit hole

this was great to watch! I kinda chuckled at the translations of some of what was said and the words in the closed captioning.

Coolant.

"Calls a cab to go to the hospital." I wonder what country this is xD

thank u where is the 2 legend now

Suddenly, penguins.

One thing not broken in California is ingenuity of engineers and other professionals, as exhibited in this video. Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!

Imagine if Gavin was governor at the time... he would've torn the freeway down for homeless camps and used the funds for heroin needles.

Why can't we do this for trains?

i hope he shared that bonus around.

America, when the politicians get out of the way and let the true Americans get on with it. Very nice to see the heart of gold under all the lib/con ideological crap! Make America Great Again! Nah, America IS great in its people. We just have to get the ideological swamp drained.

20:04 A message like this being added to something being shipped is because of pride in workmanship and owning the project vision. It did me good to see the care put into this and not just a pay check.

The animation could be a little less ridiculous and I wouldn't mind.

Goes to show if there ever was a civil war in the US, just cutting off a few specific sections of freeway could destroy the transportation networks of whole cities.

What a great story.