Stuck Spa Creek drawbridge snarls morning city traffic

What goes up must come down. Eventually.

The Spa Creek Bridge in Annapolis was raised for routine maintenance at the tail end of the morning rush hour yesterday - but it wound up stuck open for more than an hour.

Charlie Gischlar, a spokesman for the State Highway Administration, the agency that maintains the span, called the glitch a "slight maintenance malfunction."

That slight malfunction lasted from about 8:45 a.m. until 10 a.m. and caused a logistical nightmare for people trying to get to work and run errands in both downtown Annapolis and Eastport.

Brenda Niemeyer works at the front desk of the...