Monday, February 20, 2012

Bay bridge

  • OAKLAND - Thanks to clear skies, the westbound Bay Bridge reopened Sunday, more than a day ahead of schedule, according to Caltrans. Good weather and teamwork by contractors allowed the first car to cross the bridge at 7:15 p.m.
  • (San Jose Mercury News)
  • So far, so good. Work on the closed westbound Bay Bridge was speeding ahead Saturday - thanks to sunny, dry weather - but drivers trying to find their way to San Francisco from the East Bay encountered sluggish traffic on alternative bridges.
  • (San Francisco Gate)
  • The first 24 hours of the Bay Bridges holiday weekend closure of its westbound lanes went smooth, a Caltrans spokesman said, with other arterials and mass transit seeing increased traffic.
  • (Inside Bay Area)
  • A popular quote incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain is The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
  • (Worldnews.com)
  • OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bay Areas award-winning 511 traveler information service is the one-stop source for transportation alternatives and detours during the Bay Bridge closure this Presidents Day Weekend, February 17 - 21.
  • (PR Newswire)
  • OAKLAND -- Thanks to clear skies, the westbound Bay Bridge will reopen Sunday night, more than a day ahead of schedule, according to Caltrans. Crews will begin reopening the bridge around 7 p.m.
  • (Inside Bay Area)
  • Brace yourself, Bay Area. The Bay Bridge is closing. Caltrans confirmed this morning that the westbound upper deck of the Bay Bridges eastern span will indeed be closed, prohibiting traffic from driving from into the city from the Bay Bridge.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge will be closed during the Presidents Day weekend. The westbound lanes into San Francisco will be closed from 8 p.m. Friday, to 5 a.m. Tuesday . Eastbound traffic leaving the city will not be affected.
  • (Sacramento Bee)
  • SAN FRANCISCO — Venture deep inside the new skyway of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and it becomes clear that the bridge's engineers have planned for the long term.
  • (New York Times)
  • But Caltrans says it was the good weather that motivated the speedy construction work, which was initially planned to continue through tomorrow morning.
  • (SF Weekly (blog))

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