Bay Bridge Re-Opens Today After Successful Stress Testing

UPDATE -- November 2: The Bay Bridge is now open. "Nearly a week of frustration ended for commuters when the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reopened Monday following emergency repairs. Traffic began moving across the span after two rods and a crossbar were replaced and...

Bay Bridge Update: Closed For The Weekend

San Francisco's Oakland Bay Bridge got closed yesterday due to a cable accident and remained closed throughout the day today. California transportation officials are saying that the reopening of the bridge is still...

Bay Bridge Closure 'Indefinite', Says Caltrans (Photos)

The Bay Bridge is closed again, after three pieces from last month's repair fell onto the upper deck. Three vehicles were crushed in the incident, which occurred yesterday at around 7pm. The Bay Bridge is closed "indefinitely" as Caltrans tries to repair its repairs, which...

Bay Bridge Cable Snapped: Bay Bridge Closed for At Least 24 Hours

Two lanes on the Bay Bridge has been closed after a cable snapped. Bay Bridge is expected to be closed for at least 24 hours as the crew try to repair the snapped cable. A portion of the cable hit 3 cars and injured one person. This took place on the left lane of the upper...

San Francisco Bay Bridge Open On Time

The San Francisco Bay Bridge has reopened ahead of its revised schedule, but 2 hours behind its original schedule. The Bay Bridge was closed over Labor Day weekend in order for Caltrans to insert a detour around a section marked for replacement. The Bay Bridge was inspected...

Bay Bridge Crack: Bay Bridge Likely to Remain Closed

It looks like the Bay Bridge construction will continue into Tuesday due to a crack found in the east span. As anticipated by pretty much everybody in the Bay Area, the Bay Bridge will most likely remain closed...

Bay Bridge Construction: Bay Area Traffic and Bay Bridge Closure

The Bay Bridge is closed for four days, the first Bay Bridge closure since the Loma Prieta Eaethquake in 1989. (Remember those "Series that Shook the Bay" t-shirts?) The east span of the Bay Bridge must be rebuilt...

Cosco Busan Audio Files - San Francisco Oil Spill

We at gCaptain's Maritime Blog thought we would list a few podcasts, interviews and audio files that relate to the Cosco Busan Incident and the resultant oil spill in San Francisco Bay. If you find any more of...

Local Bloggers on the San Francisco Oil Spill

Thought it might be interesting to hear from some local writers who have seen the recent San Francisco oil spill spill first hand.  See our additional coverage here. The following is an excerpt from a couple who stumbled onto the oil spill yesterday (Monday)."The company...

Reporting Errors in San Francisco Oil Spill.

gCaptain's editors have been amazed lately by the number of errors in both media reports and political commentary related to the the container ship Cosco Busan that allided with San Francisco's Bay Bridge. We...

Container ship hits Bay Bridge

UPDATE: See related story about subsequent fuel spill here.A hit and run on a much larger scale, it would seem. "SAN FRANCISCO — A container ship traveling through dense fog bumped into a tower supporting the...

Tanker Explosion Destroys Oakland Interchange

Fortunately the driver survived, and was the only person injured. However, in a region plagued with traffic congestion, this will be the worst infrastructure disaster since the 1989 earthquake. "A section of...

TANKER FIRE DESTROYS MACARTHUR MAZE

At about 4 am sunday, April 29th part of a freeway section in Oakland collapses.The location where this happened just after the Bay Bridge east bound intersatate 580 part of the freeway fell on to the...

New Headaches on the Bay Bridge

"San Francisco-bound commuters were confronted with new lane configurations coming off the Bay Bridge this morning, causing traffic to slow as motorists figured out which way to go."

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