Demolition

Caltrans’ demolition of the original East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge continues eastward toward the Oakland shoreline, with a new phase commencing on November 2, 2016: dismantling the...

The Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee (TBPOC) announced today a plan to simultaneously remove the east and west halves of the original Bay Bridge’s cantilever, which will put the removal of the...

There’s a certain poignancy to the fact that full-scale demolition of the original Bay Bridge East Span Bay Bridge started today, on the 77th anniversary of span’s opening on November 12, 1936. While...

Watch two marine foundations from the original Bay Bridge implode in less than 30 seconds! The demolition of the Bay Bridge's original East Span continued on September 30 with a double pier implosion...

600 micro-implosions, over 6 seconds, will entomb one of the obsolete Bay Bridge foundations at the bottom of San Francisco Bay this weekend. Federal and State officials concurred that imploding the...

The demolition of the old Bay Bridge East Span passed a milestone this summer when the last piece of the cantilver section was cut out, and sent off to be recycled. That completed phase one and...

You can call it a major breakthrough. Engineers have separated the Western side from the Eastern side of the Cantilever Truss of the Bay Bridge. For months they've been working toward this historic...

The first phase of demolishing the old East Span of the Bay Bridge started in March of 2014. The progress, you'll see, is remarkable and on track for first phase completion by the Fall of 2015.