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Road closure adds more woes for UC Berkeley neighbors
By Niclas Ericsson
The east side of Piedmont Avenue – one of the main routes across the top of the UC Berkeley campus – was shut down May 23 for the summer, leading some nearby residents to complain about the continuing disruption caused by construction projects in the area.
James McClury, an architecture student, said getting around the east side of campus has been difficult this year with all the construction vehicles clogging the roads, and he expected the traffic situation to grow worse with the closure of Piedmont Avenue.
“But it’s impossible to stop it,” said McClury. “The university is like the guerrilla gorilla of Berkeley, they can do whatever they want.”
Jack Chang, who was packing up to leave for his summer holidays, said he not happy about the closing down of one lane of Piedmont Avenue.
“That’s going to be a mess,” he said. … Continue reading »
Inside Memorial Stadium’s quake retrofit
Julian Smith delves inside some of the engineering of Memorial Stadium’s quake retrofit in the current issue of Wired. The video above explains two of the more clever aspects of the retrofit: the two free-floating surface rupture blocks and the support walls and shock absorbers for the press box.
The Berkeley Wire: 12.16.10
White Collar Brawlers hold showdown fight in Berkeley [Oakland Tribune]
Snapped: shots of Memorial Stadium reconstruction [Cal Bears]
New mother? Check out educational support group at YMCA [510 Families]
UC Berkeley conference spotlights religion in the military [Mercury News]
The Paragon at The Claremont: showstopper is the view [Chronicle]
Photo: JAR/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
BBC checks out Memorial Stadium fault — by chopper
A couple of weeks ago — darn, how did we miss this? — the BBC touched down by helicopter at California Memorial Stadium to film a segment for the show Naked Earth BBC series Naked Earth, which is likely to be renamed when it broadcasts in the US to avoid confusion with a National Geographic series.
According to Andrea Hicklin, who works in media relations at UC, on August 26 about eight crew members arrived to get footage of the … Continue reading »
The Berkeley Wire: 11.11.09
Cats’ claws are now safe in Berkeley. Or you could face a $1,000 fine or six months in jail [San Jose Mercury News]
On Veterans’ Day you should know why Cal plays at Memorial Stadium [ESPN]
Berkeley Rep’s American Idiot looks likes it’s Broadway bound [LA Times]
Cleantech, no thanks. Sometimes I despair [East Bay Express]
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