Oakland Bay Bridge
Location Description
91 photos
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Looking at the Bay Bridge from Embarcadero near the...
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Yerba Buena Island and one tower of the west span of the...
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The Bay Bridge from the southeast, taken from the...
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Option B.
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Bridge-en glow!
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At this point, the new bridge began to peek into view.
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Unfortunately, the old span of the east bridge kind of...
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Western span.
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While this half is less pretty (I think, especially in...
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Another sunseted cityscape.
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The giant 1700T (on water, not land) crane built in...
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The crane from further away. We joked that this was the...
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The Oakland end of the Self Anchored Suspension span (SAS).
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Looking up at the bottom of the SAS, with bikeway to the left.
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Looking up through the space between the two bridge...
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Catherine and John on the boat.
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Looking up at the SAS. Note that this side of the...
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Looking up at the SAS tower. Eventually, when the big...
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The old, the new, and the construction.
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We watched the tower crane (the base of which is visible...
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Looking up at the bent cap at the start of the SAS.
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Piers for the Skyway (the part from the SAS to Oakland).
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That is one large expansion joint. Visible within are...
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Another view at the joint. Also, you can see the...
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Looking down the skyway towards Oakland. The horizontal...
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Access holes under the skyway.
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Looking back towards YBI and the SAS.
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I thought this view fit in with my "Pathways" series of...
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Turns out, the Oakland Bay Bridge has a troll! For a...
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The segment that fell from further away.
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And now, from the other side.
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Remember the spool of wire we saw being lifted to the...
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After the boat tour came a drive on the skyway to the...
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Spools of wire wait their turn. On the right, the blue...
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Out on the deck of the SAS, looking at the tower.
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A bundle of wires (127 per bundle) gets pulled up to the...
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Looking out towards the Golden Gate Bridge from the new...
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John and Catherine are all smiles on the bridge!
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Giving the wire bundles a sense of scale.
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Approximately 78 bundles of 127 wires that will become...
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That walkway looks more than a little teeter-tottery for...
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John and tour-guide Carol walk towards the main tower.
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One of the cross-beams between the two spans. We had...
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Catherine is all smiles in front of the new Bay Bridge tower.
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All the necessary details. Each wire was tagged with...
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I feel like the tower might actually be a rocket ship...
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We are now near Yerba Buena Island, where the SAS main...
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For more info on all this, check out this site:...
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New Bay Bridge tower from the other side.
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This is were the construction of this bridge gets even...
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Remember: the SAS is a Self-Anchored Suspension bridge,...
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Note that each cable bundle has a blue wire and a red...
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The tower shadow on the water so very far below.
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The intermittent white pieces sticking out are the...
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Looking towards the Golden Gate. Good thing our tour...
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The deck in the SAS is steel, but the Skyway from...
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Looking at the SAS wire bundles, towards YBI.
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Unlike the Skyway, the approach from YBI appears to have...
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The approach from YBI (actually, this is the westbound...
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Back to the wire bundles. The bundles naturally want to...
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We're still under the deck at the YBI end. This giant...
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The YBI descent again. This is the same structure we...
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Looking back at the old structure.
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And up at it. Sure has a lot of rivets.
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Another look at the old span and its eyebolts.
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Happy square bundles of wires. Not that you can see the...
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We are now on the south side, looking back at the tower....
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In the top right, the cable that was just placed can be...
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Then, the hydraulics are released. The CalTrans...
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Looking at the bike path on the east-bound span.
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And back at the deviator saddle. Before lunch, the guys...
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Now this catwalk looked nice and sturdy. I challenged...
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The angled white structures off the side of the deck are...
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Looking down on the top of the hanger anchor assembly. ...
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Another look at the anchor. I wish I had something in...
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Another picture of John and Catherine, with the light in...
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Supply yard. It's amazing how much more open this...
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The old bridge. Some base paint seems to be showing...
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Looking up the tower. Now I need to figure out how to...
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John glances back one more time. Probably the next time...
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I was amazed by how over-the-road the cables were...
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A second cable-moving trolley.
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Apparently bridge workers like trolls and Angry Birds.
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One of the coolest parts. This is the anchor for the...
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Each cable bundle has a giant end cast on to it - the...
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The other end of the casing has a threaded hole in it,...
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The hardest part with applying load to anything is how...
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Tour-Guide Carol liked that the workers used the...
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Another deviator saddle, where the big cable comes down...
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Looking at the expansion joint between the SAS and the...
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Close-up of one tube (without its mate).