fogblog

Fog City Journal's favorite photos, videos, songs, quotes and links of the day.

A Race Against Time A construction project to redirect traffic across the San Francisco Bay Bridge to a new temporary span included the removal of an old 3,200-foot segment to make room for the installation of a new 3,600-tonne connecting segment.  The roll in/roll out time-sensitive project, which began Thursday, is scheduled for completion at 5am on Tuesday. But the project, which also included the construction of new toll booths and undertaking road surface maintenance and repairs, ran into a snag Saturday evening when engineers conducting an inspection of the Depression-era bridge, discovered a “significant” crack in one of eight stress-bearing eyebar components used to hold up the eastern span of the bridge. CalTrans spokesperson Bart Ney told reporters today that while all efforts are being made to meet the Tuesday 5am deadline to reopen the bridge, there could be no guarantees. “This bridge will be safer when we open it than when we closed it,” Ney said.

A Race Against Time

A construction project to redirect traffic across the San Francisco Bay Bridge to a new temporary span included the removal of an old 3,200-foot segment to make room for the installation of a new 3,600-tonne connecting segment.  The roll in/roll out time-sensitive project, which began Thursday, is scheduled for completion at 5am on Tuesday.

But the project, which also included the construction of new toll booths and undertaking road surface maintenance and repairs, ran into a snag Saturday evening when engineers conducting an inspection of the Depression-era bridge, discovered a “significant” crack in one of eight stress-bearing eyebar components used to hold up the eastern span of the bridge.

CalTrans spokesperson Bart Ney told reporters today that while all efforts are being made to meet the Tuesday 5am deadline to reopen the bridge, there could be no guarantees.

“This bridge will be safer when we open it than when we closed it,” Ney said.

2 years ago