San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

News and Stories

Artists should probably be clamoring for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to express their talents with a once-in-a-lifetime medium: actual steel from the Bay Bridge.

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...

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.

The Bay Bridge is celebrating its 75th Anniversary this year. Private citizens, agency staff, public officials and the media gathered on Treasure Island on November 10, 2011, to celebrate the history...