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	Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There was much political bickering over whether the bridge should be built to the north or to the south of the existing bridge, with the "Mayors Brown" (San Francisco's Willie Brown and Oakland's Jerry Brown) on opposite sides of the issue.
		There was a similar fight over the design of that bridge, with Caltrans initially proposing what was called by critics a "Rip Van Winkle" design, a two deck truss similar to the obsolete eastern span of the Bay Bridge or portions of the "roller coaster" Richmond-San Rafael Bridge.
		In essence, the Governor believed that the entire state should not share in the costs of building the bridge, as he considered it to be a local (Bay Area) problem.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_span_replacement_of_the_San_Francisco-Oakland_Bay_Bridge (2214 words)

	SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE
		The bulk of toll revenues currently are turned over to the regional transportation planning agency The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and redistributed to the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART), San Francisco Municipal Railway and Alameda County Transit.
		The earthquake demonstrated that despite the Bay Bridge's behemoth stature and deep piers, it was vulnerable to damage during strong quakes.
		Oakland streetcar lines were laid out to feed passengers to a fleet of ferry boats traversing the bay.
	www.dot.ca.gov /hq/esc/tollbridge/SFOBB/Sfobbfacts.html (1375 words)

	San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge and San Francisco Skyline
		The Bay Bridge consists of 3 sections making a total of 8.4 miles between Oakland and San Francisco.
		While not as big of a landmark as the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco Bay Bridge is still a stunning cable suspension bridge.
		This picture is the suspension section (looking West in to San Francisco).
	www.liquidmoonlight.com /gallery/photo/046.htm (141 words)

	San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge, California
		Two suspension bridges (not side by side but one suspension bridge followed by another, other words in series, not in parallel) cross the West Bay, connecting the city of San Francisco to Yerba Buena Island in the middle of the bay.
		The length of the cantilever and truss bridge which crosses the East Bay is 10,176 feet with a cantilever span of 1400 feet.
		Incidentally, the Transbay Transit Terminal is a building fairly close to the bridge's western end, originally used as a terminus for the street-cars which once used the bridge; it is now used as a terminus by a variety of bus companies, both local and long distance.
	freespace.virgin.net /john.cletheroe/usa_can/ca/oaklndbr.htm (965 words)

	Bridging the Bay: San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
		The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was opened to vehicular traffic on November 12, 1936 and was built for a total cost of $77.6 million.
		The Bay Bridge was an official, publicly funded project with nearly everyone agreeing that a bridge connecting San Francisco and the East Bay was desirable.
		It is a remarkable coincidence that the two signature bridges of the San Francisco Bay Area were planned and built simultaneously.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /news_events/exhibits/bridge/sfobay.html (251 words)

	CoinLife.com - San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
		This issue marked the opening of the San Francisco Bay Bridge.
		A California grizzly bear is on the obverse with the bridge on the reverse.
	www.coinlife.com /silvercomm_baybridge.htm (25 words)

	San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Visual Assessment
		San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge Visual Assessment
		The Visual Impact Assessment quantifies the visual impact that the bridge variations would have in the larger visual context of the Bay Area.
		The Signature Bridge Design Variation (either Suspension Bridge or Cable-Stayed Bridge)
	www.dot.ca.gov /sfobb (123 words)

	SC Solutions: San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
		This is a representation of a typical gusset plate connection being used in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
		The general buckling behavior of the gusset plates, the force-displacement relationship of the system, the strains and stresses in the gusset plates, and the forces in the bolts were investigated and correlated with experimental data from tests performed at the University of Nevada, Reno.
		SC Solutions is responsible for providing an analytical estimation of the response of a typical stub member connected to gusset plates considering the effect of plate buckling.
	www.scsolutions.com /sfobb_connection_test.html (276 words)

	San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Encyclopedia.com
		In the background is the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
		at the entrance to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge December 5, 2002 in San Francisco, California.
		Pictures and Maps for: San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/SnF1rnO1k.asp (363 words)

	San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge DEIS
		An HOV lane on the SFOBB was evaluated as an extension of the existing HOV facilities at the San Francisco and East Bay approaches.
		While not a component of the SFOBB East Span Seismic Retrofit Project, the ultimate ownership, redesign, and funding of new ramps on YBI is the subject of continuing discussion between Caltrans and the City and County of San Francisco.
		The S-4 Alternative was developed to minimize bridge length and to avoid use of flat land to the north of the existing East Span on YBI while avoiding conflicts with the alignment of the EBMUD sewer outfall that aligns to the south of the existing East Span.
	www.oaklandbridge.com /deis.html (14548 words)

	San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
		The Bay Bridge route was not studied, but would result in about the same time to San Francisco via Oakland.
		East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
		San Francisco Union Station: How to revitalize the Transbay Terminal area into a vibrant commercial project based around this major transportation hub.
	www.trainweb.org /mts/sfobb (855 words)

	San Francisco / Oakland Bay Bridge Signature Span
		Weidlinger Associates is the subconsultant to the TY Lin / Moffat& Nichol - Joint Venture for the design of a replacement for the main span of the seismically vulnerable eastern spans of the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge.
		To accomplish this the height of the tower was restricted to 530 ft., the same height of the towers of the double suspension bridge western span from Yerba Buena to San Francisco.
		Further the catenary shape of the suspension cable echoes those of the other two famous bridges of the Bay and the topography of the Island.
	www.wai.com /Transportation/Bridges-long/baybridge.html (597 words)

	San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
		Construction on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was difficult because of the width of the bay and depth of the water.
		The American Society of Civil Engineers has designated the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
		The two suspension bridges were built over the western part of San Francisco Bay, which is 2 miles wide.
	www.micron.com /k12/lessonplans/bridges/bay.html (409 words)

	Road Traffic Technology - San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span Project
		The San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Authority (acting as the Bay Area Toll Authority) has approved a single-tower, self-anchored suspension design for the main span of the new east half of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in 1998.
		These concluded that the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, unlike the western, could not be expected to withstand the scale of earthquakes that were likely to affect it.
		A view of the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge from the shore.
	www.roadtraffic-technology.com /projects/frisco (447 words)

	Design of the New San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge
		The seismically vulnerable East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will be replaced with a dual east bound and west bound 3.6 km long parallel structure.
		The Bay Bridge lies between the Hayward and the San Andreas faults which can generate magnitude 7.5 M and 8.1 M earthquakes, respectively.
		The cost of the replacement bridge is estimated at $1.5 billion and the bridge will be constructed by the year 2004.
	www.pubs.asce.org /WWWdisplay.cgi?0001513 (212 words)

	Golden Gate and San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Construction - 1934-1936
		Folio 2 is a photograph of the western-most tower of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge at Pier 24 in San Francisco.
		San Francisco’s Associated Oil Company commissioned a series of pictorial folders to record the construction progress of the Golden Gate, and San Francisco-Oakland bridge projects, beginning in 1934.
		Oakland Bay Bridge from the East Bay to the city.
	www.sfmuseum.org /assoc/bridge00.html (789 words)

	Golden Gate Photo - San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Series Gallery
		The suspension portion of the bridge (between San Francisco and Yerba Buena Island) spans 9,260 feet (2,822 meters) and crosses over the deepest section of the bay.
		Behind the bridge are the towering cargo cranes of the Oakland Shipyard.
		The caissons upon which the suspension towers are built, were sunk through more than 100 feet (30 meters) of bay mud until it rested on bedrock 220 feet (67 meters) below the water at low tide.
	www.goldengatephoto.com /sanfran/baybridge.html (628 words)

	Fugro's geotechnical studies for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge.
		In 1989, a section of the East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed during the Loma Prieta earthquake, causing a major disruption in the Bay area transportation system.
		When it was constructed in 1930, the East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was the world's longest cantilever bridge.
		The bridge is a key link in the system, and with about 270,000 commuters daily, carries the largest volume of traffic of any bridge in the world.
	www.fugrowest.com /projects/sfobb.asp (368 words)

	San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge
		There were plans to construct a railroad bridge from San Francisco to Oakland, and a Bay Bridge Committee was hard at work during early 1872 attempting to resolve political problems with the.
		THE SAN FranciscoOakland BAY Bridge Facts AT A Glance Location, Interstate 80 between San Francisco and Alameda Counties.
		East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Update, The fight against the concrete 'freeway on stilts' bridge design promoted by.
	sanfrancisco.inetshops.info /al/san-francisco-oakland-bay-bridge.html (328 words)

	Kiewit - San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Skyway Segment - Oakland, CA
		In January 2002, a joint venture led by Kiewit Pacific Co., a subsidiary of Kiewit Corporation, was selected to construct the $1.04 billion “Skyway Segment” of the eastern span crossing the San Francisco Bay from Yuerba Buena Island to the city of Oakland, California.
		The 300-ft.-long bridge piles are the largest ever driven in the Bay area.
		Considered Phase One of a four-phase seismic retrofit to replace the existing double-deck steel bridge, the project is the largest single contract in Caltrans history.
	www.kiewit.com /project/pro_9202003.html (247 words)

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		KRON 4's Eric Johnston reports from Oakland where both city officials and leaders of the police union are trying to come up with solutions to the department's staffing shortage.
	www.kron.com (841 words)

	NewBayBridge.org - The New East Span: History in the Making
		A self-anchored suspension section will be part of the Bay Bridge replacement span after all, drawing to a close seven months of uncertainty over the design.
		NewBayBridge.org - The New East Span: History in the Making
		The Faces of History in The Making Project is an ongoing archive of bridge worker portraits
	newbaybridge.org (96 words)

	magazineUSA.com - San Francisco, California, USA - San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
		The Golden Gate's eastern cousin, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, holds the title of longest high-level bridge in the world at 8.4 miles.
		It is actually two different types of bridges--suspension on the San Francisco side and cantilever on the Oakland side connected via tunnel through Yerba Buena Island.
		As more people began making the East Bay their home, the Bay Bridge became the most heavily traveled bridge in the Bay Area, third busiest in the country, carrying more than 250,000 vehicles daily.
	www.magazineusa.com /cityguide/ca_sanfrancisco/c_b_oakland.asp (257 words)

	Bridgemeister - San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
		Click here for related inventory entry: 1936 San Francisco-Oakland Bay - Oakland and San Francisco, California, USA.
		The two pictures of the San Francisco (west) span show the towers covered in scaffolding.
		In the other two photos of the Oakland (east) span, you can see some of the construction for the east span replacement.
	www.bridgemeister.com /pic.php?pid=164 (64 words)

	San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge
		Once such project, the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, would alter Oakland's regional position forever.
		Since travelers no longer had to board ferries to reach San Francisco, Oakland became a city that too many people knew only as the place they drove through on their way across the bay.
		Ambitious taxpayer-financed public-works projects helped to put people back to work.
	www.oaklandlibrary.org /AboutOakland/OaklandHistoryPhotos/BayBridge.htm (62 words)

	San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Replacement
		During the conceptual design of the new East Spans of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the PB/HNTB Joint Venture conducted a series of bridge type studies for the Main Span Replacement Structure as well as some of the skyway options.
		Working with Mott MacDonald Engineers on the suspension option of the bridge, SC Solutions’ responsibilities included verification of each of the designs for seismic integrity.
		Nonlinear time history analysis, preceded by the construction sequence simulation of each alternative, were conducted to check the response of each structure type to the maximum credible earthquake, thus providing the designers pertinent information related to the bridge performance.
	www.scsolutions.com /new_sfobb_susp.html (165 words)

	MTC -- Library -- Bay Bridge
		On-line collections, including photographs of the original construction of the Bay Bridge and "Symphonies in Steel: Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate," an article on the history of both bridges.
		Collection of articles from 1932 Bay Area newspapers, chronicling the initial stages of the Bay Bridge construction.
		Searchable archive of 28,000 images of California history, including the building of the Bay Bridge, from the University of California, Berkeley.
	www.mtc.ca.gov /library/baybridge.htm (710 words)

	Public Roads: Mineta announces $450 million loan for San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge - Management and Administration - Brief Article
		The Bay Bridge loan is estimated to cost the federal government $1.3 million.
		The east span is a 7.6-kilometer (4.7-mile) truss structure, extending from Yerba Buena Island to the East Bay.
		A seismic toll surcharge on seven bridges in the Bay Area will provide the revenue stream for repayment of the TIFIA loan.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3724/is_5_65/ai_87425713 (477 words)

	San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Interim Seismic Retrofit (West Span)
		San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Interim Seismic Retrofit (West Span)
		Scaffolding between piers G and H on the Oakland side of the bridge is reducing the vertical clearance by 6 ft., and is lighted.
		The contractor will also maintain contact with VTS San Francisco on VHF-FM Channel 14.
	www.uscg.mil /d11/OAN/bridge/san_francisco.htm (336 words)

	San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, San Francisco, California
		This beautiful postcard has an image of San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge and San Francisco Skyline, San Francisco, California and is over 50 years old.
		San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, San Francisco, California
		Beautifully printed linen postcard designed and published by Stanley A. Piltz Company, San Francisco, California" Pictorial Wonderland Series" issued around 1950.
	www.scripophily.net /sanfranoakba.html (241 words)

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