Toll Authority Committee Approves $5.6M For New Bay Bridge Celebration
$5.6 million was approved to be spent on the new Bay Bridge celebration to be held over Labor Day Weekend, but now final approval goes before the full MTC board.
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$5.6 million was approved to be spent on the new Bay Bridge celebration to be held over Labor Day Weekend, but now final approval goes before the full MTC board.
Three center lanes of westbound Interstate Highway 80 were blocked following a motorcycle collision on the San Francisco-Bay Bridge Friday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Bay Area transit planners want to use public money for the estimated $5.6 million opening ceremony of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge over Labor Day weekend.
Let the countdown begin to the opening of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge. It's set to open the Tuesday after Labor Day 2013.
KPIX-TV will present a live primetime special, "A Super Night on the New Bay Bridge," on Sunday night immediately following Super Bowl XLVII and a special post-game episode of the CBS hit drama "Elementary."
A protective wood, steel and plastic fender on a Bay Bridge tower that was damaged after an oil tanker struck it earlier this month is being ripped off and replaced with new materials.
Caltrans says it will take construction crews four months to repair the damage to the Bay Bridge from when a tanker ship grazed its fender and that it will cost $3 million.
Caltrans plans to begin making repairs Tuesday to Bay Bridge fenders that were damaged when an oil tanker struck the bridge earlier this month.
A motorcyclist who was arrested Tuesday after leading authorities on a pursuit across the Bay Bridge and then crashing on city streets in San Francisco has been identified by the California Highway Patrol as 30-year-old Steven Stanford Jr.
A motorcyclist was in custody after crashing into a large truck in San Francisco Tuesday afternoon while allegedly fleeing from California Highway Patrol officers on the Bay Bridge, a CHP spokesman said.
An oil tanker that struck a Bay Bridge tower on Monday has been deemed safe to sail and is expected to leave the Bay later this morning, U.S. Coast Guard officials said Friday.
An empty oil tanker that crashed into the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was warned prior to striking the bridge tower, according to the Coast Guard.
The pilot of an empty oil tanker that crashed into the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was involved in three previous accidents, records obtained Tuesday show.
An empty oil tanker caused minor damage when it struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Monday, and the busy span remained open to traffic, officials said.
Power was restored to lights on both spans of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after an outage Tuesday night.
Bay Area storm-related power outages affected nearly 16,000 Pacific Gas & Electric customers overnight and into Friday morning, according to the utility.
Work on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge has "reached its last major milestone" and "we can smell the finish line," Metropolitan Transportation Commission Executive Director Steve Heminger said Tuesday.
Traffic on westbound Interstate Highway 80 on the Bay Bridge and in Emeryville is slowed by two vehicle collisions Friday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The Bay Bridge's self-anchored suspension span is now holding itself up, marking the last major milestone in construction of the new eastern portion of the bridge, Caltrans said Wednesday.
A multi-vehicle collision is blocking westbound lanes of Interstate Highway 80 just west of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco Friday morning, a California Highway Patrol officer said.
By next March, the installation will create the appearance of dancing lights on the bridge's Eastern Span, and organizers say it will likely bring nearly $100 million a year in tourist dollars to the region.
Caltrans plans to close the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge for at least one weekend in October to install a permanent fix for a cracked beam discovered in an expansion joint two years ago, transportation officials said Thursday.
Caltrans is warning the Bay Bridge could be closed over a five-day span as the work to complete the new eastern span grinds toward a planned 2013 Labor Day weekend opening.
Three state senators have begun an independent examination of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Tuesday after recent media reports about safety issues.
