An ongoing project of seismic retrofitting to California to make safer gate Golden Bridge during an earthquake has created one unexpected security dilemma for the up to 6,000 cyclists and 10,000 pedestrians, who daily cross the famous bridge. Construction crews have temporarily closed the bridge West sidewalk, which means that pedestrians and cyclists alike to take over East the sidewalk, that gets as low as 5.5 meters. While so far, there were no accidents, reports of the Marin independent journal, that share the sidewalk a clear security dilemma and sparked disputes between cyclists and pedestrians forced namespace have has created.

To ease this problem, representatives have installed bridge sign and set color to help determine which parts of the sidewalk should be reserved for cyclists, and that is to be kept for pedestrians. "Weekends are the times that it has become the most chaotic here," bridge spokeswoman Mary Currie said. "We wanted the weekends to help with, where it has become congested chaos."

Despite the clear security dilemma caused by the retrofit of bridge project the reaction of the bridge emphasizes user of the city unique capacity with the stamps and to adapt to change. "We appreciate this effort to bridge users shall allocate to these in the limited space to them help," said Kim Baenisch, executive Director of the Marin County Bicycle Coalition. "It makes sense, we saw the signs and thought ' are we on move '" bridge users Clark Kim said. "It makes much easier for the bikes to judge it."

Seismic retrofitting 661 million US dollar project was developed to ensure that the Golden Gate Bridge can survive an 8.3 earthquake. The bridge West sidewalk will be expected to open in October. But the dilemma of security not resolved, as the East sidewalk is closed, which means at this point, that pedestrians temporarily not in a position, the entire span of the San Francisco will be iconic bridge. The full project is expected to be completed in 2016 be, so until then cyclists be sure when you Golden Gate Bridge walk go about and make way for.

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