Work crews earlier this year began the first phase of a complex three-part process to dismantle the two-mile-long original East Span of the Bay Bridge, with the middle portion of the old bridge’s cantilever section over the deep water east of Yerba Buena Island already giving way to a 600-foot void that is clearly visible to motorists traversing the adjacent new span.
Published: July, 2014
Work crews earlier this year began the first phase of a complex three-part process to dismantle the two-mile-long original East Span of the Bay Bridge, with the middle portion of the old bridge’s cantilever section over the deep water east of Yerba Buena Island already giving way to a 600-foot void that is clearly visible to motorists traversing the adjacent new span. Project schedules call for the old gray span to be gone completely by the end of 2016. See page 14 for more information and photos.
Photo by Joel Williams
