East Span Bay Bridge

News and Stories

Engineers have imploded buildings for decades. That’s where hundreds of expertly timed small explosions cause a building to collapse within itself without damaging buildings right next door. Caltrans...

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...

The 5th Lift on the New Bay Bridge has just successfully concluded. A single piece called the Grillage now connects all four Tower Legs together for the first time.

Caltrans Spokesman Bart Ney leads the media on a virtual and actual tour of progress on the new Bay Bridge East Span, including the recent installation of the catwalks, which will allow workers to...