Old San Francisco Bay Bridge Pier Set For Implosion Early Saturday Morning
The largest remaining pier of the old eastern span of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge is set for demolition early Saturday.
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The largest remaining pier of the old eastern span of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge is set for demolition early Saturday.
Bay Bridge watchers anticipating the implosion scheduled for November 7 will have to wait another week. The so-called E3 Pier implosion is now set for Saturday, November 14.
Dust off your binoculars. There's going to be a huge event on the bay -- and probably a huge backup, as well.
A man who allegedly led stole a police vehicle and led officers on a wild chase to Treasure Island and the Bay Bridge over the weekend has been identified.
The Bay Bridge lead designer has warned Caltrans that the cable that holds up the new bridge's eastern span is vulnerable to corrosion because of rainwater leaking into its anchorages.
Caltrans has secured the final of several permits necessary to demolish the largest pier of the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge using nearly 400 small explosives, a Bay Bridge spokeswoman said Thursday.
Firefighters doused a car fire on the Bay Bridge Monday morning.
Plans to demolish the largest pier in the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge using explosives took another step forward Thurday as a bay regulatory commission unanimously granted Caltrans a permit for the project.
Last Wednesday Bay Area drivers met their match, when a chicken wandered into the Bay Bridge toll plaza, fouling up the morning commute for about four hours.
A woman who allegedly evaded arrest last month by jumping into the water after crashing a stolen car on the Bay Bridge was arrested today in Oakland, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Three people are claiming ownership of the small brown chicken that fouled up rush-hour traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area earlier this week.
A chicken was spotted crossing the Bay Bridge toll plaza Wednesday morning, quickly drawing up many punchlines.
Two San Francisco men have been identified as the suspects arrested for allegedly shooting a tourist while robbing him of his camera near the city's famous crooked section of Lombard Street and then attempting to flee from police via the Bay Bridge on Tuesday afternoon, police said.
A tourist visiting San Francisco was shot when he chased after two suspects who allegedly stole an electronic device from the man near Lombard Street.
Caltrans is seeking permits to demolish the largest pier of the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge with explosives, a procedure that could be dangerous to native marine mammals, but Caltrans officials say it would have the least impact on bay wildlife.
A woman who allegedly evaded arrest Wednesday after crashing a stolen car on the Bay Bridge by jumping into the water has been identified as Erlynn Kay Sanchez-Edwards, the California Highway Patrol said Thursday.
The search for a woman who reportedly fell or jumped off the Bay Bridge Wednesday morning following a traffic crash on the bridge is continuing, and the California Highway Patrol is now following up on a report of a woman seen getting out of the water after the incident.
Road flares left by maintenance crews are the likely cause of two fires in an expansion joint on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, a Caltrans spokeswoman said Wednesday.
A rubber expansion joint caught fire on the eastern span of the Bay Bridge Wednesday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A maintenance contract approved Wednesday should keep the popular Bay Lights art installation on the western span of the Bay Bridge twinkling well into the next decade.
Traffic on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is at a crawl Wednesday morning due to an injury crash involving at least three vehicles.
Engineers say the rods may need to be repaired or replaced if the problem is found to be widespread.
12 internationally-renowned experts have been assembled at a cost of $500,000 to help design a plan for further rod testing on the Bay Bridge.
San Francisco's 'Daybreaker' party is a morning rave for people who want to dance during sunrise and without substances. KCBS' Jeffrey Schaub checked out the event, which celebrated its first anniversary.
Anchor rods in the tower of the Bay Bridge's new eastern span are not broken and 99 percent can withstand a major earthquake, Caltrans officials announced Wednesday.
