SF News More Bad Bay Bridge News: Designer Says Main Cable Could Be At Risk The news only goes from worse to f--king terrible when it comes to the two-year-old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, and today's update is no exception. The lead designer of the bridge,
SF News Bay Bridge Bolts Show More 'Ominous' Cracks, May Not Even Be Safe To Drive On The saga of the cracked bolts on the Bay Bridge's two-year-old eastern span continues as experts testified Tuesday at a bridge oversight panel meeting. Even though there was a minor bit of good
SF News Good News!: Bay Bridge Rod Failed Because Of Stripping, Not Corrosion Though there's been very little news you could categorize as good when it comes to the one-and-a-half-year-old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, today the Chron reports that a full inspection of the
SF News Uh-Oh Bay Bridge: Caltrans Says Rod Has Fractured You'll recall that we're spending $4 million to see what the hell is going on with the Bay Bridge's $6.4 billion eastern span. Well, in testing the over 400 steel rods that
SF News They're Spending $4 Million To Figure Out How And Why The Bay Bridge Is So Effed The immediate price tag just to investigate the extent of the troubles with the seemingly cursed eastern span of the Bay Bridge will be $4 million, as the Chron reports. That's how much
SF News Bay Bridge News Gets Continually Worse, Tower Rod Fails Test Back in October we first heard the news that, among all the other problems with the new span of the Bay Bridge, most of the 423 steel rods securing the span's tower base
SF News Yet Another Bay Bridge Problem: Potentially Corrosive Water by Eric Wuestewald After rusted suspension cables, critical engineering flaws, a million dollar repainting job, and a substantial bird population, you'd be justified in thinking nothing else could possibly go wrong with the
SF News Bay Bridge Contractor Gets Their Bonuses Anyway, In Spite of Everything Guess what? If you have a multi-billion-dollar contract with CalTrans and you commit several phenomenal fuckups while building a hugely important piece of infrastructure but still manage to basically finish on time even
SF News New Bay Bridge Span Bolts Finally, Finally Fixed The drama that gripped the region for the entire spring and summer over those cracked steel bolts/rods in the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge has finally come to a quiet
SF News Bay Bridge Gets Its Temporary Shims The quick fix to the much discussed bolt problem on the new span of the Bay Bridge was completed over the weekend, and now we're all set for a September 3 opening of
SF News No, Seriously This Time: New Bay Bridge Span Will Open On Labor Day After months of broken bolts, handwringing, and bumper sticker sloganeering, officials announced today the final, for real, yep-definitely-this-time opening date for the new East Span of the Bay Bridge, and it's the day
SF News New Bay Bridge *Still* Might Open The Day After Labor Day It's been a little over a month since CalTrans semi-officially decided to delay the opening of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge until December, and then a few days later they
SF News New Bay Bridge Approach Will Feature 88 Palm Trees [Updated] The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, whenever it actually opens, will feature a median dotted with 88 palm trees that will blow in the breeze and possibly die within months. Landscapers
SF News Hold Up: Bay Bridge Could Still Open On Time With Quick Fix Members of the peer review panel who had already given the thumbs up for the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge to open despite some cracked bolts took bridge officials by surprise
SF News Bay Bridge Opening Delayed Until December or Later [Update] Caltrans met behind closed doors today with state legislators today to discuss the progress of the steel saddle thing they're having fabricated in order to solve the Great Cracked Bolt Debacle of 2013,
SF News Definitely Open That Sketchy Bridge, Experts Say Two out of three experts from a peer-review panel say the new East span of the Bay Bridge should have no problem opening up right on schedule on Labor Day and that the
