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- This half-hour television special tells the remarkable story of the fiery collapse and rebuilding (in only 26 days) of a key connector in the Bay Area's MacArthur Maze, where three major freeways meet just east of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Sponsored by the Professional Engineers in California Government. Produced by David L. Brown Productions
kudos to the writer/director who made this video. Educational yet entertaining at the same time :)
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It's amazing what can be done when everyone involved decides to cut the BS and just do what they have to, in this case under budget and ahead of schedule!
The only thing that stinks is it usually takes a disaster like this to actually get these things done like that. Sort of like with I-35 in Minneapolis and what could have happened with the Tappan Zee in NY, but was averted.
Contracts should all be treated as such; the incentive was in the bonus of a speedy completion. Elsewhere, I've seen road projects take years for literally one city block.
@@ZenZill I live in oakland and I literally saw a small bridge over lake merritt take 5 years to complete. Absolutely ridiculous and such a waste of tax payer money. its sick how much bureaucracy is involved with this stuff.
Coolidge is a small town of about 8,000 people that's about an hour from downtown Phoenix. It was a farming town, and mostly still is. I was quite surprised to hear that there was a steel fabricator in Coolidge that had the capacity to handle a project of that size, in such a speedy fashion. Good for them.
C. C. Myers looks exactly as how I would imagine a construction tycoon :-D
Myers declared personal bankruptcy in 2008 over an unrelated personal business venture. The construction company was not directly affected by the bankruptcy but Myers lost his stake in the ownership. In 2016 C.C. Myers filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy :-(
Carl Douglas died in a plane crash in 2012 :-(
11:40
Haha yeah, they were a highway construction company that decided they wanted to become housing developers during Sacramento's housing boom. Consequences were inevitable.
Oh what a pity... any links available to the plane crash?
Oh boy, the algorithm is at it again! Yes, of course i want to see a video about real life cartoon characters rebuilding a bridge i've never heard of in the middle of the night.
crucial point is that this wasn't "a project". it was what these people have been doing for years, intensely focused on this spot for a short period. they are practiced, they are good and confident at it, and they can do it fast when motivated. there was very little "unknown". it was mostly known tasks, known plans.
it was a crunch and it could be, because it wasn't a huge project. you can't crunch huge projects. people tire out eventually. you can't "add" people or resources. you need to use the resources you already have, because that's your organization and how it knows to function.
in project management, the difference between "regular operation" (e.g. manufacturing) and "project" is that projects are singular events mostly consisting of things that were never done before.
"you can't crunch huge projects."
Ah, that would be nice if true. Not working in construction but programming - so the wearout is not that hard physically but more mentally, but we have managers that push near impossible schedules like a few years ago a team of 5 people being on-side (custom-software) and 100-120 hours a week - for a month. Sufficient to say that most people involved in such crunchtimes have then quit.
@@ABaumstumpf precisely. it's called a death march for a reason. idiotic management. they are probably not even sorry that they lost good employees because such managers can't tell who's good.
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.
Look at how much work it took to replace that one small span... I can't even comprehend how much work goes into all the rest of the bridges and overpasses.
RIP Carl Douglas CEO of StingerWelding, died in a small aircraft crash.
Great video, props to all those that contributed to the fix and making of this documentary. Thank you.
This is excellent, brilliantly produced, real and interesting. Thank you!
I still have no idea how I ended up here ( youtube's algorithm) but what a marvelous project, well planned and executed!
One thing not broken in California is ingenuity of engineers and other professionals, as exhibited in this video. Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!
12:39 "I signed the contract at 3:30. we started at 3:00."
hahaha what a go-getter
talk about dedication lol
What a wonderful story. And it is great to see the people that made this happen receive such a tribute.
And they drove this contractor out of business less than 2 years later. California
prefers the billions of dollars spent on a train that is obsolete before it's barely
started. They prefer the brand new Bay Transit building to have to be closed down right after it opened because of defects and the replacement east span of
the Bay Bridge that went way over time and budget and pieces fell off of it within
a month of its opening...the Democratic machine that runs California can't afford
to have a man like this around. (I've lived here all my life so I can trash it. I LOVE
CC, and it's a shame California has become the Liberal s-hole everyone else
except the MSM and Mexico seems to think it is).
@@paulaharrisbaca4851 ha aha right on
Great story! Thanks for making and sharing!
Thank you for watching, we appreciate your positive feedback.
I watched this in a project management class a couple years back. CC Myers is kind of a folk hero for PMs now, at least here in the bay area.
Folk hero? Not to those who knew the blowhard...
Great job on this production
this was great to watch! I kinda chuckled at the translations of some of what was said and the words in the closed captioning.
Need more stories like this in this day
Love the artwork.
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@@295g295
Reminds me of Ren & Stimpy's animation.
I really enjoyed that
"Calls a cab to go to the hospital." I wonder what country this is xD
U. S. A.
U. S. A.
My mans chillin he aint spending 8000 dollars for a 5 minute ambulance ride
That isn't accurate, it's bullshit. He walked off the interstate to call the fire department. There was a cab driver at the gas station who offered to take him to hospital. The driver tried to pay and the cab driver wouldn't take his money. The bullshit the police said about the driver was withdrawn within days, but their initial claims that he was responsible are what survives, he was cut off, tried to fight the fire, walked a long way despite being seriously burned, and then made sure the fire was reported before accepting help for himself. I lived and worked nearby at the time and used to drive under there to get from Alameda to Berkeley without suffering the commuter traffic.
Other people stated it too, but i was reminded of this video in light of the I-95 Collapse in Philadelphia Recently.
What a great story.
Great success.
Same thing happened to I-95 in Connecticut some years back. A tanker caught fire under the bridge and melted the steel just like that, and the bridge that melted in that case was brand new so a bit of bad luck there. Within two days they had placed a temporary bridge so traffic could get moving again.
2004. Bridgeport I wanna say. Melted a small viaduct.
It happened again on I-95 lol
CC Myers was a powerful personality and leader. A great man.
I think we need someone like him in Victoria Australia
And give up the legendary "laid back" Aussie way of doing things.... Hmmmm.... Don't know... That's not the road to becoming Australia's new Prime Minister, if that's your ambition :0)
How was it like a Dr. Seuss scene? I don't remember something like this in hop on pop
They need to come to Oahu to build that damn rail!
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.
Truck fuel can't melt steel beams....
oh wait
Lol my thoughts too.
@Sideshow 44 That's because it was a single span of roadway, not a 1,000ft tall skyscraper. Ya think maybe that has anything to do with anything?
@Sideshow 44 Yes? Did I say otherwise? But one is a small overpass and one is a 1,000 foot office tower. Not sure what to tell you if you don't appreciate the difference.
Who said anything about melting? They said it got hot and buckled. It didn't melt. You reach half the melting point of steel it gets very soft
i hope he shared that bonus around.
It’s like art work.
BUT, jEt FueL cAnT mELt sTeeL bEaMs
These dudes on here are the definition of construction lol
If people want to get something done, it happens. These people were determinate.
"It was surreal...it was like a Doctor Seuss scene" Now..I remember One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish....but I just cannot recall death and carnage in any of that. Is there a book I've missed??
you should check out Geisel's underground artwork!!
@@aaronjaben7913 Hey...wow!! Thanks. That's friggen awesome....and I thought it was all about little kids and Cat in the Hat. "The Abduction of the Sabine Woman" Awesome. And "Booby Trap"
One Car Two Car Red Car Red Pavement
A single tiny shoe in the gutter
She screams at the news anchor in anguish
The flowers on the roadside memorial have wilted
Excitement because the politician will add more lanes and raise the speed limit
The Cars Are All Very Fast And Very Close
@@googiegress7459 Yep, cars are scary but they are also very convenient. I can get behind the wheel at a moments notice and do a cross country trek tomorrow. That's the allure. But when you go to Europe, the rail system is so excellent and pervasive. Driving a car becomes blasé because you bypass the best places for the convenience of speed and efficiency.
@@Ian-iu2tl Man I ain't got points or messages.
What Dr Seuss books is she reading?
I've been in construction for over 3 decades; When I saw that CC guy; I just knew he was a beast...Guys like that, in the industry, are few and far...LOL.When I clicked on the thumbs up; it went to 666...DIABLO!!!!
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.
2007 was so 1996.
To be honest, it’s time for that whole dang thing to be rebuilt with modern ramps. Those ramps where built in the 1960s, and now it’s 2018 and I’m surprised they are still standing and have not been replaced...
Well unlike in say the Commonwealth of Massachusetts bridges in California don't wear out to require replacement in 50 years
Technically, a lot of it was rebuilt in the 1990's.
@@edwardmiessner6502 Really? Then you've never worked on a Caltrans bridge. Almost every bridge structure in California has required multiple retrofits/upgrades.
@@zacharyyamashita8554 A lot of it was reconfigured after the 1989 quake that took out the Cypress. But if you drive on I-580 to I-80 West / East, take a look at those rusted out railings... Those are 1950s...
Not accurate, the part he was driving on was built in the late 90s to replace the Cypress structure that collapsed in the 1989 quake. I was one of the first people to drive on it after it opened.
Now they need to get this done to the I-95 and none of this it's going to take MONTHS to get fixed!
thank u where is the 2 legend now
Early and under budget!
Hope they tested the steel
"traffic didn't come to a snarling halt like people excepted* is that not a normal day in the bay area?
People can do amazing things when they’re allowed to.
Americans can do anything if they are properly motivated and bureaucracy gets out of the way. Amazing story and congrats to all involved.
And this is the problem today. There is so much red tape to get anything done.
Suddenly, penguins.
I wonder if they test these sky overpass with various trucks and loads in advance. A double trailer with partial liquid fuel, needs a very mild curvature in the road. Also, that pillar directly where the road splits sure made an enticing weak point for a distracted/out of control and loaded truck.
2:03 They cut it just before the Terminator comes waliking out of the flames.
But jetfuel don't melt steel beams maaaaaaaaaan..... lol
Ah yes... ...Cartoon Characters! An accurate description of California Politicians!
Okay sorry but I had to :D
Especially Swartzinegger
@@richardscathouse You mean the immigrant whose sole talent was to lift heavy objects, who learned another language enough to become fluent, earn the title mr. universe, become a massive movie star in his 2nd language for 20+ years and a household name known everywhere, AND marry into a political powerhouse family like the Kennedy's... Then run for political office... and win.... As a republican... In the leftist haven of communist California.
I agree that Californian politicians are indeed in another class of rotten pieces of shit all their own, but I'd at least give Arnold an ounce of credit here. He did the political thing without any effort whatsoever, compared to what he's already done. Wasn't he elected Governor after some sort of run-off, Pelosi family butt-fuck-fest gone awry, or other scandal of some sort, anyways? Good god the Californian people have ruined a once great state.
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.
Did the steel beams in the WTC's reach 2000 degrees?
Much more because it was inside, it would have been like a forge with the wind howling in from the hole.
@@tubester4567, Interesting. I remember hearing or reading that the heat from the fires in the WTC was not enough to soften the steel girders or beams.
@@WJack97224 There was plenty of misinformation from conspiracy theorists who didnt have a clue what they were talking about.
I've debated many of them online, I have a metalwork background so I tried to explain it to them. Some listened but many didnt.
@@WJack97224 And yet it has happened so many times. The fire from burning straw is enough to melt steel beams, you don't need to liquify them, you just need to soften them, after that the load does the rest. Conspiracy theorists are just idiots who can be convinced by lies and disinformation. I know two farmers who have had steel framed hay barns turn into modern art sculptures due to arson.
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.
How many bridges have you built lately?
19:02 They did what???? ;)
I was 15 years old then
Erik Nelson's hair.
Why can't we do this for trains?
I wish that my father was still alive so that I could have shared this with him.
it was done to boost rapid transit ridership.
Good.
It's not rocket surgery, fellas!
What a circle jerk of hubris. Government so proud of their ability to clear the decks and wipe away all regulations to get this project done in record time. If it had been strictly of private scope, they would have been proud to delay the project for weeks, months, or years by pulling a new regulation from their asses whenever the contractor though he had everything lined up.
@Kilal Googlestaffers Thanks for proving his point. LOL
As a contractor for 30 plus years; I see your point...It's a strange system we have...CC Meyers had an advantage over everyone bidding though...He'd done previous and continuous work for Cal trans...But, I give respect to those involved. I wish the system was more fair to EVERYONE involved in Government Contracting but...I also wish Salma Hayek would let me have fun with her in that outfit she wore on the Wild Wild West movie...:)...Everything happens for a reason...
Months to fix? In Italy would be decades :):)
Weeks to fix; 26 days from the fire (17 days of construction). 25:15
@StateofPA RE: I-95 in Philadelphia
Double edge sword here: impressive on the one hand, but I also get uneasy whenever companies want things done quicker and faster all the time to get a fat bonus. It's OK in an emergency situation like this one, but if this becomes the new norm even for non urgent things, we all will be working 24/7/52/365/65. It's a difficult ballancing act. There's nothing wrong with being a bit more laid back, take more time to think things over, and not do everything superrational all the time. It's Modern Times all over again, it drives people nuts over the years, it leads to burn outs, to people being pressed like oranges and then thrown away to make room for new oranges and new juice... So... VERY mixed feelings.
There's been studies that show that while human beings are able to focus and expedite in the short term, in the long term our productivity drops to the point that, say, a person working 60 hour weeks is less productive per week than someone working only 40 hours. Several studies have marked around 40 hour weeks as the productivity sweet spot. Its also worth noting that short term expedites have a medium term productivity loss that results in an overall net loss but if you've got a very short term, very emergency project like this bridge, accepting the medium term productivity loss can be an acceptable trade off
So the contractor end up getting the 25 mil bonus?
Without red tape (and yes, I know that state employees have reams of regulations they must follow), our country's infrastructure would be as nice as say, China.
yes and no, look at Chinese construction, their buildings crumble after only a few years. People get lazy, and cut corners.
@@popcorn8153 Just not true.
@@andrewasciutto1420 I could share a TH-cam channel with you of a man who lives in china and talks a lot about the crumbling building infrastructure there. Check it out before you just decide not to believe something.
th-cam.com/users/serpentza
The problem in this country is nobody wants to pay for it. This work isn't cheap. Because really, in normal times, you're not trying to patch a couple pieces of the interchange, you're tasked with replacing the ENTIRE interchange, which is exponentially more expensive and time consuming, regardless of red tape. The NYT just did a good piece on rural road infrastructure in Wisconsin and it's terrible condition. These are roads, pretty plain, that handle heavy vehicles like combines, tractors and semi's carrying grain loads. They need to be heavy built, especially the viaducts because of the tonnage. All of it is crumbling. So the state assessed the scope of the project and came up with a pretty lean price, all things considered, but there's no way to pay for it. They're internal roads, so they don't qualify for matching from the Feds. Yet, each and every time the agricultural producers that would benefit of it would scream for the project, but outright refuse to use tax funds to actually pay for it. And that's the real reason we sit on this stuff until it's crumbling, that mentality isn't exclusive to farmers in Wisconsin. Nobody wants to pay for it. At all. Ever. So we patch the problems away until eventually things collapse and then all of a sudden...it gets replaced.
@@popcorn8153 Still, we easily have double of anything crumbling, look at most of our bridges. China is at the frontline for new and advanced engineering and infrastructure projects. Maybe some of the old stuff is bad, but look at the US's bridge and tunnel network.
Why would anyone question why the 🚛 drivers first thought was to seek out care for whatever 🤕 injuries he may have had. Seems like a reasonable thing to do. The scene was an inferno. I suppose he could have peed on the fire. I have to laugh at the news 🗞️? reporter for not having common sense enough to figure that out. A tanker truck with a shifting load takes over & little can the driver do to correct. My educated guess would be that the driver was going to ⛽ fast.
I think the comment was more that the driver called a cab instead of something more conventional like 9-1-1.
It's not true. He called the fire department first. The police said the next day that he fled the scene and probably lost control because he was speeding. Later they discovered that he lost control because he was cut off. People at the EBMUD water treatment plant below the deck he was on had to yell at him to get back from the fire which he was burned trying to fight. They had already called in the fire. He then walked until he found somewhere he could call the fire department. He didn't call a cab, there was one there. The driver offered to take him to hospital and when they got there he tried to pay, but the cab driver refused payment. This all came out in local news days after CHP had said that he must have lost control, but he was actually cut-off by a car and lost control. Sadly the in person interviews from the gas station haven't survived, nor have the CHP statements admitting they had no reason to claim he was speeding or driving at an unsafe speed.
Coolant.
Probably Swift
"People adjusted and the traffic apocalypse never came"
Well maybe you shouldn't have even rebuilt the damn thing and instead made it easier to get around via other means of transit
Myopic
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.
C. C. Meyers went belly up in 2016....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._C._Myers
Take a bus hit 50 mph and don't look down.
Damn I loved Speed. That was a classic.
Dr. Seuss?? WTFH???
You don't remember all the fiery truck wrecks in the Dr. Seuss books!? I want some of whatever she's on. Must be potent stuff
So JetX CAN melt steel... OK
No, it vaporizes the moisture in the concrete causing it to explode. Concrete always has some amount of water in it. The steel doesn't do all the work. The concrete and steel work together steel providing tension strength and concrete providing compression strength. When the concrete goes the steel acts like spaghetti. If this is a WTC reference there's many more factors to account for as well. This is in open air with little to no drafting. Fire forensics is messy and complicated.
O K ...
I suppose all the 9/11 Truthers ignore this incident.
I was just thinking about this when I saw the bridge collapse. Gasoline doesn't melt concrete. haha! Plus you can add to the counter evidence of more freeways equals less congestion.
Pat McBride you explain the 15+ year long drug campaign to sell Americans heroin from Afghanistan. It's not like the CIA got caught selling crack to Americans to fund an offshore revolution and admitted to it in the 1980s, oh wait. Not to mention all the free opium to fill all your prescriptions.
Balls Deep Nice aluminum hat.
dragonmemories But it bends steel
You do know that the fires in the WTC Towers and WTC 7 never reached the
temperatures of 2000 degrees that this fire attained in one specific area for
several hours, and not less than two hours at temperatures of no higher than
1300 degrees. Plus you might add that the freeway gets pounded every day
all day with thousands and thousands of pounds of heavily laden trucks
heading into San Francisco. AND the freeway went through the Loma Prieta
quake which may have weakened it a bit (though I doubt it)and still it took longer for the small portion of the freeway affected to collapse than 3 entire buildings
took to become piles of dust with pools of melted steel inside.
This documentary is a proud moment of what Americans can do when government get out of the way.
almost all the interviews are with Government employees what are you talking about lol
What a dumb world view. Almost EVERYONE speaking IS A GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE. It’s about effective government, not less government.
Lol caltrans is a government agency you fool
@@brandobee2264 Caltrain isn't bureaucrats. Such a Boomer.
@@hOtneO loser 😂
But...but gas can't melt steel.
Amazing there is a housing crisis anywhere in the world.
The takeaway is ... not “less government” .. but EFFECTIVE RESPONSIVE GOVERNMENT.
At least Gov. Schwarzenegger didn’t just throw some paper towels & go off to play golf.
If you think California is "effective" you are incredibly stupid.
No worse,
Who the heck chose the music for this video?
What "the heck" about the music ? Are you also complaining about the frames paintings are in when visiting a museum ? Or the colours of the wall frames plus painting are attached to ? At least it is no macho music we always get whenever jet airplanes doing amazing things are shown here on TH-cam.
@@Retroscoop 🤣 you out there man
The animation could be a little less ridiculous and I wouldn't mind.
The animation was spot on!
Pretty good but the Japanese would still do it in half the time.
And there would be a small paper square under it with a thank-you note.
And with far higher quality steel!
He called a cab so there would be no police to ask him questions and he sneak in to the hospital. He called 911 to help and then the cab?
The ambulance would have cost thousands! You bet, call me an Uber!
He actually asked them to call 911 then the cab driver who was already there getting gas offered him a lift to the hospital. He tried to pay and the cab driver wouldn't accept it. At the time they interviewed the guy from the gas station and the cab driver.
Ah so car fuel can melt steel beams but not jet fuel 😜 jk idk lol
Heres the thing those leftist idiots don't understand. You don't have to "melt" steel to compromise it to catastrophic status.
Wasn't steel
@@richardscathouse Where?
@@seanmurphy2302 leftist?
Back when people in the United States worked together. Back when America was great
CC Myer for governor.
12:23: corny music starts
Don’t show this to 911 conspiracy theorists.
a senior bridge engineer Peter Strykers CLUELESS USELESS
Lolol. To be fair, he's just one of thousands of incompetents inside Caltrans. Literally the employer of last resort in the industry...
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
Couldn't happen now
Yes, it could; nonunion truck drivers worked to death! The scam artist who replaced the steel in the original construction with taffy, it happens all the time, just look at the new bay bridge, better hurry, before it falls into the bay!
Remember the guy who did the repairs on time and under budget was eliminated as a
business competitor within a year afterwards.
California NEEDS HELP!! We're like the homeless people we attract who shouldn't get
handouts and floods of uneducated people who drive wages down for everyone (this is why
we need a "minimum wage". ) We need a BOOSTER. Someone who says "we can be a Golden State again!" and not a place for crazies and lowlifes who wouldn't live in a homeless shelter if
you made it like a posh hotel. (I see 'em every day and they do NOT like shelters)
Focus now KAREN, stay on subject. We don't care about your story (obviously)
Made in the USA no chinese steel here built with pride built to last
Well, that was 2007. A long time ago.
Like the Bay Bridge? 🤭😿😿😿
Original failed structure was US steel...