How Long to Read Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

How Long Does it Take to Read Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge by Karen Trapenberg Frick

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Winner of TransportiCA’s September Book Club Award 2018 On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the partial collapse of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge’s eastern span, a vital link used by hundreds of thousands of Californians every day. The bridge was closed for a month for repairs and then reopened to traffic. But what ensued over the next 25 years is the extraordinary story that Karen Trapenberg Frick tells here. It is a cautionary tale to which any governing authority embarking on a megaproject should pay heed. She describes the process by which the bridge was eventually replaced as an exercise in shadowboxing which pitted the combined talents and shortcomings, partnerships and jealousies, ingenuity and obtuseness, generosity and parsimony of the State’s and the region’s leading elected officials, engineers, architects and other members of the governing elites against a collectively imagined future catastrophe of unknown proportions. In so doing she highlights three key questions: If safety was the reason to replace the bridge, why did it take almost 25 years to do so? How did an original estimate of $250 million in 1995 soar to $6.5 billion by 2014? And why was such a complex design chosen? Her final chapter – part epilogue, part reflection – provides recommendations to improve megaproject delivery and design.

How long is Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge?

Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge by Karen Trapenberg Frick is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge aloud.

What Reading Level is Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge?

Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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