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by Baxxter 821 days ago
'The Bay Bridge' refers to something else in this part of the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_Bridge

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It's assumed that everyone comes from California unless proven otherwise.

In my defense, the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge is older and carries more 4x more traffic than the "other" Bay bridge! But yeah, given that the Chesapeake one is just down the road from the bridge that collapsed, I get the confusion.
> SF-Oakland Bay Bridge is older

In a Bridge of Theseus sort of way. The entire Eastern span is very new, a lot of the approaches have been rearranged, and major components of the Western span has been replaced over the years. But I guess none of this affects the age of the bridge, at least in Wikipedia’s estimation :)

This is why I come to HN, for Ship of Theseus references.