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Willie Brown Bridge is falling down
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The California Legislature pointed a giant middle finger at Bay Area commuters by naming the western span of the Bay Bridge after San Francisco Chronicle columnist Willie Brown even though, as San Francisco’s mayor, Brown unconscionably delayed reconstruction of the seismically challenged eastern span and helped drive the project’s cost from $1.5 billion to $6.4 billion? Sacramento named a bridge after a politician whose antics risked the public safety of his constituents.In June, Assemblyman Isadore Hall III introduced a resolution to name the western span the Willie L. Brown, Jr. Bridge “to honor and commemorate his many contributions to California.” Hall may have meant well, but he broke two Sacramento rules.