Oakland Bay Bridge

Location Description

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