SF News The Bay Bridge's Bird Problem, By The Numbers State and federal laws intended to protect birds like the double-crested cormorant, which nests on the Bay Bridge, mean that Caltrans must use extreme care as they demolish the old eastern span. After
SF News Day Around The Bay: More Bay Bridge Drama Caltrans allegedly silenced engineers who tried to expose cost overruns and construction defects on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, according to an investigative report released today by a state Senate
SF News One More Bay Bridge Flub: $1 Million Repainting Job Required Crews are hard at work blasting away and/or painting over little steel particles which are now causing rust stains on the bright white paint of the one-year-old eastern span of the Bay
SF News Highway 280 Shutdown Begins Tonight At 9 PM Part of the 280 will close starting tonight at 9 p.m. so that Caltrans crews can "install a new hinge making the roadway stronger in case of an earthquake." The southbound stretch
SF News Caltrans' Latest Bay Bridge Fix: Just Put Some Grease On It After much handwringing over (allegedly) shoddy construction and slip-ups on the new East Span of the Bay Bridge, Caltrans has started implementing a cartoonish-sounding plan to protect the nearly 2,000 rods and
SF News What's Wrong With The New Bay Bridge Now? Just when we thought we could stop holding our breath every time we cruise over the scenic new Bay Bridge, a pair of new reports indicate key pieces of the eastern span, which
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 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 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 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
SF News Man Goes To Jail For Painting His Own Crosswalk In the recently-out-of-bankruptcy town of Vallejo, California, where public services are still scarce, one local man has gone to jail for taking matters into his own hands and painting a crosswalk in a
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 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 Eastern Bay Bridge Span Tower to Get Much Taller This Week One of the final sections of the Self-Anchored Suspension Span (SAS) Tower of the new eastern Bay Bridge section is getting hoisted into place this week, and is sure to create some distraction
SF News Speed Blamed for Fatal S-Curve Big Rig Crash High speed is being blamed for yesterday's Bay Bridge fatality, or so says Caltrans. The accident -- where a big rig truck toppled over the bridge at around 3:30 a.m. on
SF News I Can See A Rainbow by Chris Jones Headed north this weekend for a drunken sunset picnic among the vines of Sonoma and/or Napa? Well, before you swerve off the side of the road into a drainage
misc Whine Country Bicyclist It's always a thrill to ride the Bay Trail through Sausalito, where the streets are clogged with erratic retirees in Porsche convertibles and inattentive tourists in rented SUVs. In spite of fast-moving traffic
