SF News Remaining Old Bay Bridge Foundations To Be Imploded By Thanksgiving, Ahead Of Schedule The phrases “ahead of schedule” and “under budget” are not ones we are used to hearing with regards to the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge and the demolition of the old
SF News Ongoing Bay Bridge Problems Drain Rainy Day Fund So Officials Look To Tolls Since it opened in 2013, the eastern span of the Bay Bridge has been beset with numerous problems ranging from the serious to the absurd. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that addressing all those
SF News Second Redesign Of Bay Bridge Eastern Span Bike Path May Delay It Yet Again Completion of the Bay Bridge's eastern span bike path could be delayed yet again, after engineers have determined that the design of the unbuilt portion may not meet structural safety standards. The current
SF News Video: Caltrans Shows How The Old Bay Bridge Eastern Span Could Be Blown Up Caltrans wants to speed up their dismantling of the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, proposing to use explosive charges on one of the underwater foundations to implode it. In a kind-of-cool
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 Another Day, Another Bay Bridge Engineering Flaw There's something else wrong with steel rods that could ultimately cause massive destruction and death on the new span of the Bay Bridge, and it's going to take a few more million dollars
SF News Bay Bridge Looky-Loos Are Demolishing Your Commute According to ABC7 today, the rush hour traffic on the Bay Bridge is the worst it's been since the last BART strike. (Which seems like only yesterday.) But it's not an increase in
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 Disaster Expert Compares New Span Of Bay Bridge To Dented, Easily Crushable Beer Can "When you think of a beer can between two large hands, if you have a small dent in the beer can, it will collapse very easily. It's how we impress a lady in
SF News Now The Bay Bridge Has Sprung Leaks No sooner did we get a rain storm for the first time in forever, the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge now has a leak problem. It seems that water is seeping
SF News Meanwhile, On The Bay Bridge... Some thirty-odd palm trees are being installed along the Bay Bridge's new eastern span, and opinions are mixed over the new look, with some commuters particularly irked over the palms' visual association with
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Battle Of The Bridges Gerard Livernois superimposed three bridges (the old Bay Bridge eastern span, the new Bay Bridge eastern span, and the Golden Gate Bridge) together because why not.
SF News Regarding The Cool LED Light System On The New Bay Bridge Span The Bay Lights have gotten plenty of attention on the western span of the Bay Bridge, but the same engineer who got those installed worked on the high-tech, permanent lighting system on the
Arts & Entertainment Take A Helmet Cam Ride Across The New Bay Bridge Tracey Jaquith strapped a camera to her helmet, jumped on her 1978 Honda CB400a, and took a ride across the recently reopened Bay Bridge Monday night. She starts off at the Bryant and
SF News Watch a Live Cam Of The New Bay Bridge Span Traffic is rolling smoothly so far on this first full day of operation for the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, and that's a good thing since every news outlet in the
SF News Bay Bridge To Reopen Tonight [Updated] Update: The Bay Bridge will open between 9 and 10 p.m. The Bay Bridge will reopen tonight ahead of schedule. Though no specific time has been confirmed, we snapped the below shots
SF News People Are Commemorating The Wrong Half Of The Bay Bridge Because it's 2013, and because of Instagram and Facebook and the rest, everyone feels it necessary to chime in on every big event, from Miley Cyrus to sarin in Syria, as if they
SF News Bay Bridge Shuts Down For Five Days Starting At 8 PM Are you ready? While folks in Eastern SoMa celebrate a quieter few days, the commuters around the Bay Area brace themselves for a five-day Bay Bridge shutdown. This project has been 24 year
SF News Photos: A View From The New Bay Bridge After years of political battles, and then years more of construction, the new east span of the Bay Bridge will finally open early next week. Before the entire bridge closes to allow Caltrans
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
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On The New Bay Bridge Span... Although the new eastern span has its fair share of snafus going on at the moment, today its roads were give a microdermabrasion scrub. On Friday, workers pave the new deck. The bridge
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 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
