SF News Bay Bridge Builder Gets $20 Million Bonus If New Span Opens On Time Scandal! (Possibly.) According to the Contra Costa Times, who has been all over the bridge this week, contractor American Bridge/Fluor Enterprises will cash in on a $20 million bonus if the bridge
SF News Sacramento Wants To Rename The Bay Bridge After Willie Brown A group of State Assembly members in Sacramento, their palms still greasy from their lunch of Subway no doubt, introduced a resolution Wednesday to name the big, flashy western span of the Bay
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
Arts & Entertainment Uh Oh: Bay Lights Already Malfunctioning This is not good, kids. Matier & Ross are reporting today on "hundreds" of those little LED lights that are part of the Bay Lights display that are stuck in either the on
SF News Gov. Brown On Bay Bridge Bolt Screwup: 'S**t Happens' The latest in the fiasco surrounding the roughly 1,200 bolts on the new Bay Bridge span that may or may not be too brittle to withstand an earthquake is that Governor Jerry
SF News Things Looking Even Worse With Those Bay Bridge Bolts Following on some comments last week by a retired engineer who says that Caltrans "fell on its face" with regard to the steel-bolts fiasco, it's come to light that there are some 1,
SF News The New Bay Bridge Span Is Seismically Shaky With six months left before the Labor Day opening of the new Bay Bridge span, Caltrans has already managed to break a significant portion of the most expensive public works project in California
Arts & Entertainment Dizzying Photos From Above And Below The New Bay Bridge Photographer Joe Blum, a former shipfitter and welder himself, has spent the last 24 years documenting the rise of the new Eastern Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. From the first soil
Arts & Entertainment 7 Photos (And One Video) Of The World's Largest LED Light Sculpture Over The San Francisco Bay Last night, artist Leo Villareal officially flipped the switch on the Bay Lights — the world's largest LED light sculpture, containing 25,000 individual LEDs stretching 1.8 miles long and 500 feet high
Arts & Entertainment It's Raining Out, But You Can Stay Dry And Watch The Bay Lights Right Here Is this rain putting a damper on your Bay Lights viewing experience? Couldn't make it out to the Embarcadero? Just want to stay indoors at the bar and watch on your iPad? You
SF News Where To Watch The Bay Lights; Bay Bridge Reopening Celebration Moves Forward Today in Bay Bridge news, we have a roundup of stuff relating to The Bay Lights grand premiere on Tuesday, and news about the planned Labor Day Weekend event to christen the new
SF News BREAKING: Crane Topples While Working On New Bay Bridge Span A construction crane that was being used to remove temporary supports under the newly self-supporting, new eastern span of the Bay Bridge toppled this morning. News crews are freaking out over the news,
Arts & Entertainment Look At The Bay Bridge All Gussied Up With Lights! Just in time for a romantic stroll along the Embarcadero come Valentine's eve, the Bay Bridge peacocks these lovely vertical lights. Glorious. It's all part of the new LED art display, christened The
SF News Bay Bridge Span Opening To Be Fêted With Historic Walk From Oakland To San Francisco When the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge gets completed this August (*cough* about fifteen years late), the first things to cross over it won't be tires, but feet. The Metropolitan Transportation
SF News Tanker That Hit Bay Bridge Heads Back Out to Sea "Watch Out For the Golden Gate!" shouts the Appeal's headline. The tanker that sideswiped one of the towers of the Bay Bridge on Monday morning headed back out to see this morning with
SF News Tanker Hits Bay Bridge, Escapes 2007 Cosco Busan Horror On Monday afternoon, a tanker collided into the number four tower of the Bay Bridges. The tanker, an empty one called the Overseas Reymar, was moving north out of the Bay when it
Arts & Entertainment Bay Bridge Eastern Span Progress Update You know who has a lot of catching up to do? The Golden Gate Bridge. If there were a thought bubble hovering above the Golden Gate Bridge, it would be that of a
Arts & Entertainment Video: See the New Light Installation on the Bay Bridge Getting Tested Installation has begun on the new light sculpture thing we told you about in September on the cables of the Bay Bridge. It's an LED art installation by artist Leo Villareal, and it's
SF News SUV Rollover Snarls Bay Bridge Traffic This Morning Westbound traffic on the Bay Bridge blew up just before 7 a.m. this morning after a white Jeep Grand Cherokee rolled over, blocking several lanes of traffic near the Fremont Street exit
SF News Astounding, Awesome Bay Bridge Light Sculpture Project Announced Former Mayor Gavin Newsom and still reigning Mayor Willie Brown announced a glorious new light project that's set to make everything better. Why? Because tiny LED lights make everything better. Inspired by the
SF News The New Bay Bridge Eastern Span! It's Kind of Almost Done! We're actually, miraculously, finally nearing the end of the construction of the new, earthquake-safe, eastern span of the Bay Bridge, and CalTrans is starting to talk about how long they'll need to close
SF News Fiona Ma Does Not Care For Carpool Lanes State Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, who represents the Richmond, Sunset, parts of southern S.F. and Daly City, is tired of seeing an empty carpool lane on her morning commute up I-80 from S.
SF News Meanwhile, On The New Bay Bridge... Light poles illuminate the new east span of the Bay Bridge during a system lighting preview by Caltrans on Thursday. AP notes. "The custom-made lights will create a safer driving experience for motorists
SF News Oakland Carjackers Lead Chase Across Bay Bridge, Crash in SoMa Traffic around the Fremont and Folsom Streets in SoMa is a mess this afternoon after two carjacking suspects led Oakland Police on a car chase across the Bay Bridge around 2 p.m.
SF News Guy Who Caused Yesterday's Bay Bridge Jam and Shooting Was on Parole for Human Trafficking Antonio Roberson, 29, is being held in connection with yesterday's crash and subsequent shooting on the lower deck of the Bay Bridge, near the S-curve. The incident happened around 2 a.m., when
