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Why is a new East Span of the Bay Bridge being built? Simple – it’s missing a piece, said kindergartners in Autumn Ayllon’s class at Shore Acres Elementary School in Bay Point during a presentation by...

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The Bay Lights project will have its Grand Lighting on March 5, 2013, but already onlookers have been dazzled during the testing of the kinetic installation illuminating the western span of the San...

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The final deck section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge’s new East Span was poured into place today, marking another milestone in the completion of the new East Span. While work remains on the...

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The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge toll plaza renovation has made significant progress since construction began in early December 2012. The toll plaza upgrade is both cosmetic and functional...

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Bay Bridge crews are paving the way for the new eastern span’s completion — literally. Crews today were applying the first layer of epoxy asphalt to the westbound deck of the self-anchored suspension...

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Members of the media were invited yesterday to tour the steel plant in Vallejo that is fabricating key parts of the saddle system that will help secure seismic gear on the new East Span of the San...

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August 15, 2013 UPDATE The state Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee (TBPOC) today gave a green light to an interim fix to the seismic system on the new Bay Bridge East Span, and determined that...

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A stunner by day, the new Bay Bridge East Span is even more spectacular at night, as evidenced by this gallery of photos from testing this week of the roadway lighting system. The bridge’s unique and...

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The new Bay Bridge will have lighting like no other bridge. The world's tallest self-anchored suspension bridge has a custom designed lighting system that will be brilliant enough to be spotted nearly...

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Among the finishing touches underway on the new Bay Bridge East Span last week was the preparation of temporary wooden modules to extend the span’s bike path the final distance to the Oakland...