Major Bay Area highway outage

Sunday, April 29, 2007 by Dave Winer.

This morning there's a report on local news that a critical piece of Bay Area roadway is out, and may be out for weeks or months. 

The biggest traffic bottleneck in a traffic-challenged metropolitan area is known as the MacArthur Maze. Four major freeways, 880, 580, 24 and 80 all come together from the East Bay, and from the other side -- the Bay Bridge connects all that with San Francisco. 

Early this morning a gasoline tanker truck caught fire on a ramp connecting 580 westbound with 880, causing 250 yards of freeway to collapse.  

Google map of the maze.  

Reports from SF Chron, KGO, Mercury News, Contra Costa Times.