Gaza protest shuts down Golden Gate Bridge for hours, causing gridlock on both sides of span
Source: KPIX
The Golden Gate Bridge reopened to traffic early Monday afternoon following a pro-Palestinian protest that shut down the span in both directions for hours, according to CHP.
CHP reopened the bridge to southbound traffic shortly after 12:15 p.m., while northbound traffic was held for several minutes as authorities cleared their staging area that occupied those lanes as police and CHP officer arrested protesters. Both directions were reopened by around 12:20 p.m.
CHP said drivers should expect residual delays.
The bridge protest was the second demonstration to impact traffic on Bay Area freeways. It was first reported shortly after 8 a.m., hours after a pro-Palestinian protest closed all lanes on I-880 in Oakland.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/second-protest-blocks-all-lanes-of-golden-gate-bridge-san-francisco/
TexasDem69
(1,813 posts)maxsolomon
(33,360 posts)It's the contemporary quandary of the Far Left; most Americans want to ignore protests, but protestors don't want the sleeping masses to be able to ignore their protest. Interrupting mobility is the only method left.
Never mind that it alienates and doesn't persuade.
It's clear what the Pro-Palestine demand is now: IDF unilaterally withdraw from Gaza, leaving Hamas' control unchallenged, allow a massive humanitarian effort to avert famine without Israeli oversight, and hope that someday the hostages that aren't dead are eventually freed.
They're not going to get what they want.
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Valdosta
(250 posts)Demonstrating what they could do without doing it.
ripcord
(5,492 posts)In Britain more and more often they will just drag the trash out of the road.
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)Of course their solution for stopping oil is stopping traffic for hours so cars sit there and idle and burn more oil