The eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is going to open to traffic around Labor Day weekend after all. The bridge has been in the works since the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989. Nearly a quarter of a century and more than $6 billion later, the oversight committee has given the go-ahead, despite questions the bridge is riddled with brittle steel. Officials decided drivers would be safer on the new span with a temporary workaround than they would be on the old bridge.
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