East Span Bay Bridge

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The public is invited to attend an online community meeting for the West Oakland Link project on Thursday, December 17, 2020, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

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With cash toll collection at the Bay Area's seven state-owned toll bridges suspended since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, MTC and BATA invite drivers who have received a toll notice to pay via...

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The Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee held its last meeting, wrapping up more than a decade of work that saved toll payers hundreds of millions of dollars and years of delays as the Bay Bridge...

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A series of controlled implosions set for noon this Saturday, Sept. 8, will remove a pair of the original 1936 Bay Bridge East Span’s marine foundations from the San Francisco Bay shallows just west...

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Adapted from a Caltrans release The California Department of Transportation will keep open the Bicycle and Pedestrian Path on the East Span of the Bay Bridge for 24 hours each day for a ten-day period...

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If you build it, they will come…eventually. The colony of Double-crested Cormorants that long made its home on the old East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge finally found its Field of...

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Adapted from a San Francisco County Transportation Authority press release. Officials and bicycle advocates participated in a group bike ride across the East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay...

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Caltrans’ ongoing project to demolish the original East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reached a historic milestone when the final 1.7-million-pound steel truss section of the old Bay...

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Adapted from a Caltrans release. Caltrans has announced longer hours for the bicycle/pedestrian path on the East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Starting Sunday, March 12, 2017, the...

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Keeping with a great tradition started nearly eighty years ago, Caltrans and Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) workers again this year have hung a wreath above the Bay Bridge’s westbound entrance to the...