Bay Bridge Patrols Double After Spike In Speeding
The CHP has decided to double the number of patrols during a twelve hour stretch, beginning at nine o'clock at night.
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The CHP has decided to double the number of patrols during a twelve hour stretch, beginning at nine o'clock at night.
A group of state and regional transportation officials recently traveled to China where they participated in a $200,000 celebration of the final fabrication of the new $6.3 billion eastern span of the Bay Bridge.
Starting Friday, five-axle big-rigs will pay $18 -- up from $11.25 -- to cross the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the Antioch, Benicia, Carquinez, Richmond-San Rafael, San Mateo and Dumbarton bridges. A year from now, the toll for those trucks will rise to $25.
The signature element of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge was hoisted into place Thursday afternoon. Work on the new "cable saddle," which is the world's largest, started at 5 a.m. and continued through the day.
Caltrans unveiled a bevy of new tools Tuesday to help motorists navigate a new Bay Bridge realignment that will be put into place over Memorial Day weekend.
All that extra money that was supposed to roll into California state coffers when Bay Area bridge tolls went up may get eaten up by a credit swap gone bad.
When tolls went up on state run bridges last summer, truckers were exempted, but that will change soon – in a big way.
A San Francisco Board of Supervisors committee on Monday approved a $1.5 billion project to transform Treasure Island, and the full board could vote on the proposal in two weeks.
The California Highway Patrol has issued a wind advisory for the Bay Bridge Sunday afternoon.
It's finally coming together - the last remaining section of the new Bay Bridge tower was slated for installation Friday. Crews warned ahead of time that the piece being installed was considered the most complicated of the entire tower project.
Another $100 million has been approved to build a new eastern portion of the Bay Bridge, so the entire span could open sooner than expected.
Crews have completed hoisting the fourth segment of the tower on the Bay Bridge's new eastern span ahead of schedule, a Caltrans spokesman said Friday.
The California Highway Patrol arrested a man after he led officers on a chase around the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge toll plaza on Wednesday night.
An Antioch man pleaded guilty Friday to felony charges of child endangerment and making a false bomb threat last November, when he was involved in a police standoff on the Bay Bridge.
The fourth segment of the self-anchored suspension tower was scheduled to be added to the Bay Bridge beginning Monday morning.
A man believed to be the last surviving worker who helped construct the San Francisco Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge has died.
The new Bay Bridge eastern span should open four to six months earlier than planned, according to Caltrans, but it will require a little road adjustment.
A big-rig's trailers spilled up to 50 feet of sand along the lower deck of the Bay Bridge Thursday afternoon. Two lanes of the highway were closed while crews cleaned up the sand.
Commute-hour delays on the Bay Bridge have decreased by 15 percent in the first six months since congestion pricing was implemented on the bridge.
While much of the attention on the Bay Bridge project has been focused on the new tower, work continues on a new toll plaza.
Crews constructing the tower on the Bay Bridge's new eastern span have added a holiday glow to their work.
A February trial date in San Francisco Superior Court was set Thursday for an Antioch man who caused an early morning Veteran's Day traffic nightmare on the Bay Bridge by pulling over and calling in a bomb threat.
Bay Bridge commuters were being asked to keep their eyes on the road Wednesday as advancing construction work will bring more massive pieces into place on the span tower.
While Caltrans officials say construction of the Bay Bridge could be done earlier than anticipated, drivers are being warned that there are still challenges down the road.
A San Francisco judge on Thursday dismissed felony kidnapping and false imprisonment charges against a distraught Antioch man who caused a Veteran's Day traffic snarl on the Bay Bridge.
