Most of you have probably never heard of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge.  In the San Francisco Bay area, it connects the far-left, granola-chomping-unwashed-dreadlocky-snakey-haired East Bay communities, including Richmond, Oakland and Berkeley, to the far-left, hippie-super-rich-hot-yoga-SUV-driving North Bay communities of Marin County, including San Rafael, Larkspur, and Tiburon just north of San Francisco. During the afternoon rush hour, traffic frequently backs up. A big part of the reason for the traffic crush is that there are only two lanes in each direction, carried on separate decks of the bridge. But it turns out that the bridge actually has a third lane in each direction that was turned into a shoulder a number of years ago, and finally, because of the traffic problems, the government is talking about turning it back into a traffic lane in the direction that jams up in the evening. So why am I writing this article? The reason I am is because to take this...(Read Full Post)