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The cars and trucks you drove came from Detroit companies, mostly, with a smattering of strays and imports born in exotic locations like \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/10/11/fiat-kenosha-timeline-idUSN1112078020091011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenosha, Wisconsin\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfsburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wolfsburg, West Germany\u003c/a>. But if you came of age a little later — say you passed your driver’s license test in 1980 or later — it’s impossible to imagine a world without Toyota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t guessed it from the crowd of Toyotas on highways throughout the Bay Area and California \u003ca href=\"http://www.cncda.org/secure/GetFile.aspx?ID=2583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toyota is No. 1\u003c/a> in car sales in the state. 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It was Toyota’s first manufacturing facility in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few snippets from some of the Toyoda obituaries published elsewhere today:\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Los Angeles Times:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-eiji-toyoda-obit-toyota-20130917,0,7476968.story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eiji Toyoda, car family scion who developed Corolla and Lexus, dies at 100\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Born Sept. 12, 1913, in Nagoya City, Toyoda graduated from the University of Tokyo with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1936 and joined Toyoda Automatic Loom Works Ltd. that same year. About a year later he moved to the company’s newly established automotive subsidiary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He quickly became enamored with the process of manufacturing automobiles, diving into factory operations and supervising activities on the shop floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“From my childhood, machines and business were always there right in front of me. I probably developed an understanding of both.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Having grown up at the textile mill built by his father, Heichachi Toyoda, and uncle Sakichi Toyoda, Eiji Toyoda loved machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So from my childhood, machines and business were always there right in front of me,” he said in a Time magazine interview in 1999. “I probably developed an understanding of both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He rose in the executive ranks, becoming a Toyota director by 1945. But that wasn’t much of a promotion because most of the company’s operations had been put on hold by World War II, picking back up again by 1950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was when Toyoda toured a Ford factory plant in Dearborn, Mich., an experience that was at the root of many of the ideas he employed at Toyota to create the company’s efficient, low-defect manufacturing processes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were producing 40 cars a day,” he said in the Time interview. “Ford was making 8,000 units, a 200-times difference. The gap was enormous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toyoda, with the advice of production specialist Taiichi Ohno, changed Toyota’s manufacturing approach. They focused on making cars in small batches, receiving just enough parts at the factory to complete a production run efficiently.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New York Times:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/business/global/eiji-toyoda-promoter-of-toyota-way-dies-at-100.html#h%5BIhsBtw,2%5D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eiji Toyoda, Promoter of ‘Toyota Way,’ Dies at 100 \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In 1950 he set out on what would turn out to be a pivotal three-month tour to survey Ford’s Rouge plant in Detroit, then the largest and most efficient factory in the world. Before the war, the military government prevented Toyota from building passenger cars, compelling it to make trucks for Japan’s war effort instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1950, Toyota had produced just 2,685 automobiles, compared with the 7,000 vehicles the Rouge plant was rolling out in a single day, according to “\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Machine-That-Changed-World-Revolutionizing/dp/0743299795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Machine That Changed the World\u003c/a>,” a 1990 study by James P. Womack, Daniel T. 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The plant, completed in 1959, was soon running at full capacity and gave Toyota a decisive lead over its domestic rival Nissan and the confidence to turn its eyes overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“One of the features of the Japanese workers is that they use their brains as well as their hands.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Even as he aggressively expanded production at Toyota, Mr. Toyoda implemented a manufacturing culture based on concepts like “kaizen,” a commitment to continuous improvements suggested by the workers themselves, and just-in-time production, a tireless effort to eliminate waste. Those ideas became a corporate philosophy known as the “Toyota Way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the features of the Japanese workers is that they use their brains as well as their hands,” he said in an interview with the author Masaaki Imai for the 1986 book “Kaizen.” “Our workers provide 1.5 million suggestions a year, and 95 percent of them are put to practical use. There is an almost tangible concern for improvement in the air at Toyota.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wall Street Journal Japan:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2013/09/17/eiji-toyoda-japan-auto-industry-visionary-dies-at-100/?KEYWORDS=toyota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eiji Toyoda, Japan Auto Industry Visionary, Dies at 100 \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After a failed earlier attempt to crack the U.S. market, Toyota succeeded with its 1968 Corolla model the year after Mr. Toyoda took over as president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid an escalation of trade friction between the U.S. and Japan in the 1980s, he was also responsible for pushing ahead with a plan to launch a joint production venture with General Motors Corp. called New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. in California. 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The cars and trucks you drove came from Detroit companies, mostly, with a smattering of strays and imports born in exotic locations like \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/10/11/fiat-kenosha-timeline-idUSN1112078020091011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenosha, Wisconsin\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfsburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wolfsburg, West Germany\u003c/a>. But if you came of age a little later — say you passed your driver’s license test in 1980 or later — it’s impossible to imagine a world without Toyota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t guessed it from the crowd of Toyotas on highways throughout the Bay Area and California \u003ca href=\"http://www.cncda.org/secure/GetFile.aspx?ID=2583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toyota is No. 1\u003c/a> in car sales in the state. You might not call the Prius, Camry, RAV4, Corolla, Sienna, Matrix, Yaris, Echo or various Lexus nameplates iconic, but they are everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industrial pioneer who made them ubiquitous, former Toyota President and Chairman Eiji Toyota, died today in Japan. He was 100. He had one more local claim to attention: He was the force behind Toyota’s 1984 decision to partner with General Motors in \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New United Motor Manufacturing Inc.\u003c/a> in Fremont, a venture meant to revive GM’s moribund assembly plant. It was Toyota’s first manufacturing facility in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few snippets from some of the Toyoda obituaries published elsewhere today:\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Los Angeles Times:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-eiji-toyoda-obit-toyota-20130917,0,7476968.story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eiji Toyoda, car family scion who developed Corolla and Lexus, dies at 100\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Born Sept. 12, 1913, in Nagoya City, Toyoda graduated from the University of Tokyo with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1936 and joined Toyoda Automatic Loom Works Ltd. that same year. About a year later he moved to the company’s newly established automotive subsidiary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He quickly became enamored with the process of manufacturing automobiles, diving into factory operations and supervising activities on the shop floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“From my childhood, machines and business were always there right in front of me. I probably developed an understanding of both.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Having grown up at the textile mill built by his father, Heichachi Toyoda, and uncle Sakichi Toyoda, Eiji Toyoda loved machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So from my childhood, machines and business were always there right in front of me,” he said in a Time magazine interview in 1999. “I probably developed an understanding of both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He rose in the executive ranks, becoming a Toyota director by 1945. But that wasn’t much of a promotion because most of the company’s operations had been put on hold by World War II, picking back up again by 1950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was when Toyoda toured a Ford factory plant in Dearborn, Mich., an experience that was at the root of many of the ideas he employed at Toyota to create the company’s efficient, low-defect manufacturing processes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were producing 40 cars a day,” he said in the Time interview. “Ford was making 8,000 units, a 200-times difference. The gap was enormous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toyoda, with the advice of production specialist Taiichi Ohno, changed Toyota’s manufacturing approach. They focused on making cars in small batches, receiving just enough parts at the factory to complete a production run efficiently.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New York Times:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/business/global/eiji-toyoda-promoter-of-toyota-way-dies-at-100.html#h%5BIhsBtw,2%5D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eiji Toyoda, Promoter of ‘Toyota Way,’ Dies at 100 \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In 1950 he set out on what would turn out to be a pivotal three-month tour to survey Ford’s Rouge plant in Detroit, then the largest and most efficient factory in the world. Before the war, the military government prevented Toyota from building passenger cars, compelling it to make trucks for Japan’s war effort instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1950, Toyota had produced just 2,685 automobiles, compared with the 7,000 vehicles the Rouge plant was rolling out in a single day, according to “\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Machine-That-Changed-World-Revolutionizing/dp/0743299795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Machine That Changed the World\u003c/a>,” a 1990 study by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones and Daniel Roos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Toyoda was unfazed, writing back to headquarters that he “thought there were some possibilities to improve the production system.” He brought back a thick booklet that outlined some of Ford’s quality-control methods; the company translated it into Japanese, changing “Ford” to “Toyota” in all references.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Toyoda went on to oversee Toyota’s Motomachi plant, a huge undertaking that gave the automaker the capacity to produce 5,000 passenger vehicles a month at a time when all of Japan produced about 7,000 vehicles a month. The plant, completed in 1959, was soon running at full capacity and gave Toyota a decisive lead over its domestic rival Nissan and the confidence to turn its eyes overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“One of the features of the Japanese workers is that they use their brains as well as their hands.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Even as he aggressively expanded production at Toyota, Mr. Toyoda implemented a manufacturing culture based on concepts like “kaizen,” a commitment to continuous improvements suggested by the workers themselves, and just-in-time production, a tireless effort to eliminate waste. Those ideas became a corporate philosophy known as the “Toyota Way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the features of the Japanese workers is that they use their brains as well as their hands,” he said in an interview with the author Masaaki Imai for the 1986 book “Kaizen.” “Our workers provide 1.5 million suggestions a year, and 95 percent of them are put to practical use. There is an almost tangible concern for improvement in the air at Toyota.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wall Street Journal Japan:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2013/09/17/eiji-toyoda-japan-auto-industry-visionary-dies-at-100/?KEYWORDS=toyota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eiji Toyoda, Japan Auto Industry Visionary, Dies at 100 \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After a failed earlier attempt to crack the U.S. market, Toyota succeeded with its 1968 Corolla model the year after Mr. Toyoda took over as president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid an escalation of trade friction between the U.S. and Japan in the 1980s, he was also responsible for pushing ahead with a plan to launch a joint production venture with General Motors Corp. called New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. in California. It was Toyota’s first production base in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among his other noted business decisions was the birth of Lexus, which he set into motion the year before becoming chairman and six years before the first luxury Toyota model debuted to rave reviews in 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stepped down as chairman in 1992 and served as honorary chairman until 1999, when he assumed the ceremonial post of honorary adviser until his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among his many honorary titles outside of the company, he was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1990, one of Japan’s highest honors. He was the second Japanese inductee into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1994 following Honda Motor Co.’s founder Soichiro Honda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A cousin of the auto maker’s founder Kiichiro Toyoda, he helped the elder Toyoda build the company’s first commercial plant on the site of a red pine grove in town of Koromo, later renamed Toyota City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Toyoda is survived by his three sons – Kanshiro, chairman of Toyota affiliated auto parts maker Aisin Seiki Co., Tetsuro – chairman of another affiliated parts maker Toyota Industries Corp. – and Shuhei, a former head of Toyota’s European operations, who currently serves as president of affiliated parts maker Toyota Boshoku Corp.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Immigration. Prison overcrowding. Hydraulic fracturing. The minimum wage. Those were just \u003cem>some\u003c/em> of the major issues California lawmakers tackled during a frantic week of legislating in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111193\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111193\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/brownwhiffle-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"brownwhiffle\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As legislators passed bills in marathon sessions this week, Gov. Jerry Brown played some whiffle ball. (Governor’s Press Office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2013 legislative session closed with a bang—more than 400 bills were sent to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk this week alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Maybe that’s why the governor got some \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice/status/378307237430558720/photo/1\">whiffle ball\u003c/a> action in yesterday—he’ll be too busy signing and vetoing bills the rest of the month to play.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the high-profile bills sent to Brown: a measure creating \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/09/california-sends-undocumented-immigrant-license-bill-to-gov-jerry-brown.html\">driver’s licenses \u003c/a>for undocumented immigrants; a bill increasing the\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/12/californias-minimum-wage/\"> minimum wage\u003c/a> from $8 to $10; \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/12/what-would-californias-fracking-bill-do/\">legislation regulating fracking\u003c/a>; a bill that would transition the state’s schools to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/11/110930/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new system of testing.\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s public endorsements of three of those bills (on driver’s licenses, fracking, and the minimum wage), plus his opposition to a resolution \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/13/bay-bridge-renamed-for-willie-brown\">renaming the Bay Bridge\u003c/a> for former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, illustrated how involved the governor was in wrangling votes this week. (When he wasn’t playing whiffle ball, that is.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has been made this year of how Democrats would use their huge majorities in both houses of the Legislature. The Senate and Assembly didn’t push through any tax increases this session, but Democrats did pass a slew of bills helping undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the driver’s license measure, bills on Brown’s desk would allow undocumented immigrants to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/09/05/219177457/calif-gov-debates-changing-whos-eligible-for-jury-duty\">serve on juries\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/09/bill-letting-undocumented-immigrants-practice-law-heads-to-governor.html\">practice law\u003c/a>. Another measure \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/10/california-legislature-passes-trust-act\">prohibits police\u003c/a> from turning undocumented immigrants over to federal authorities unless the immigrants already have a violent felony on their record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature passed those bills at a time when immigration reform is deadlocked on the federal level. Another area where California is more aggressive than Congress: gun control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Obama’s efforts to tighten federal firearms laws went nowhere this year, but California lawmakers sent several \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-lawmakers-send-tough-gun-control-bills-to-the-governor-20130912,0,5610828.story\">gun-control bills\u003c/a> to the governor. This during a week when two Colorado state senators were \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/colorado-recall-elections-chill-push-gun-laws/story?id=20227650\">recalled\u003c/a> for voting for gun laws in a state that has experienced two infamous mass shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visit \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/13/midwifery-physical-therapy-pharmacists-bills-move-to-governors-desk-scope-of-practice/\">KQED’s State of Health\u003c/a> blog to learn about some of the health-related bills that advanced to the governor’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s more analysis from KQED’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/thisweek/\">This Week in Northern California.\u003c/a>”\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/V9MoHtBLkPM?start=93\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/04/how-to-get-to-the-new-bay-bridge-bike-path/biketrail090213a/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109990\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-109990\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/biketrail090213a-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Access to the Bay Bridge Bike Trail from the west side of southbound Shellmound Street in Emeryville. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Access to the Bay Bridge Bike Trail from the west side of southbound Shellmound Street in Emeryville. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The No. 1 comment we hear about the new Bay Bridge bike path: “Wow! Cool!” The very next thing we hear: “Where is it exactly? How do I find it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it’s clear enough where the bike and pedestrian path is once you’re on the bridge, it’s not at all obvious how one negotiates the welter of freeway flyovers, overpasses and approaches to arrive on the eastern span. So: Here’s a guide on how to get to the bike and pedestrian path, with a couple observations thrown in about access. Note: The instructions below get you only to the bike path. You still have a ride or walk of about 4 miles each way once you reach the path.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nTwo main access points are open: Just outside the Ikea store on Shellmound Street in Emeryville and at the corner of Maritime Street and Burma Road, just outside the Port of Oakland. Before we get to a turn-by-turn route, I have a recommendation for anyone cycling to the new path: Use the Shellmound/Ikea entrance, whether you ride from West Oakland or from MacArthur or anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s better marked. It’s got the best access from rapid transit if you’re not a local. (MacArthur BART is 1.9 miles away. West Oakland is 2.3 miles away via Mandela Parkway. Those are easy 10- to 15-minute rides.) And for my money, the streets leading to the Shellmound access are much bike-friendlier. Yes, they involve some urban riding, and that means being alert and being comfortable taking your place in traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The route to the Maritime Street/Burma Road access, on the other hand, runs through one of the busiest industrial areas in the Bay Area, with lots of trucks traveling to and from the port. That Maritime/Burma access makes a lot more sense if you’re driving and parking there, as adjacent to the West Grand Avenue entrance and exit to the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are detailed directions for getting to the new bike path, complete with a slideshow and Google map (after the step-by-step instructions). Driving directions are at the bottom of the post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bicycling from MacArthur BART: \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1. After exiting fare gets, go left to access 40th Street. You’ll want to head left, or west, on 40th Street, so you’ll need to cross at the traffic signal at the MacArthur BART driveway.\u003cbr>\n2. \u003cstrong>Head west .1 mile\u003c/strong> on 40th Street under the BART/Highway 24 overpass. The first light you’ll come to is Martin Luther King Jr. Way. (If the first light you hit is Telegraph Avenue, you’re headed the wrong way. Turn around!). \u003cstrong>Total mileage: .1\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n3. \u003cstrong>Continue west .5 mile\u003c/strong> on 40th Street past signals at West Street, Market Street, to Adeline Street, where 40th jogs slightly to the left. \u003cstrong>Total mileage: .6\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n4. \u003cstrong>Continue west .8 mile\u003c/strong> on 40th Street across San Pablo Avenue, then past signals at Hollis Street and Horton Street to the foot of the overpass, where Shellmound Street begins. \u003cstrong>Total mileage: 1.4. \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n5. \u003cstrong>Continue .4 mile \u003c/strong>across overpass as Shellmound curves right (north) to the first traffic signal. The signal marks both the entrance to the Ikea parking lots and one entry to the Bay Bridge bike/pedestrian path. The access is clearly marked with a sign for the Bay Trail and an informational display for the Bay Bridge bike/pedestrian path. \u003cstrong>Total mileage: 1.8.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n6. \u003cstrong>Entering the path\u003c/strong> at this point allows you to circle under the Shellmound Street overpass and join the main path.\u003cbr>\n7. \u003cstrong>There is a second entrance \u003c/strong>to the path, from southbound Shellmound Street, immediately across the street from the first described above. Walkers and riders can reach it by crossing at the Ikea traffic signal or by looping under the overpass as described in Step 6 above. It affords ready access to people traveling south from Berkeley — say, from Aquatic Park and along Shellmound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bicycling from West Oakland BART:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>West Oakland Option 1, via Mandela Parkway. \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n1. \u003cstrong>Exit the station to Mandela Parkway,\u003c/strong> at the east end of the station property (the end nearer downtown Oakland).\u003cbr>\n2. \u003cstrong>Turn left (north) on Mandela. \u003c/strong>Cross 7th Street. (If you find yourself crossing 5th Street, then curving left under a freeway overpass, you’re going the wrong way. Turn around.)\u003cbr>\n3. \u003cstrong>Continue 1.3 miles north on Mandela\u003c/strong> past major intersections at 14th Street (traffic signal at .5 mile), West Grand Avenue (traffic signal at .9 mile), and 32nd Street (1.3 miles). \u003cstrong>Total mileage: 1.3 miles. \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n4. \u003cstrong>Continue .5 mile on Mandela. \u003c/strong>After 32nd Street, Mandela curves gradually to the left. The parkway narrows to a four-lane street at 34th Street. Then the street curves right (east) under the MacArthur Maze freeway overpasses to Horton Street. \u003cstrong>Total mileage: 1.8 miles. \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n5. \u003cstrong>Turn left at Horton Street, \u003c/strong>a four-way stop (you’ll have a Target Store on your left and a Best Buy on your right at the intersection). Continue .1 mile to 40th Street. \u003cstrong>Total mileage: 1.9 miles. \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n6. \u003cstrong>Turn left at 40th Street. \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n7. \u003cstrong>Continue .4 mile \u003c/strong>across overpass as Shellmound curves right (north) to the first traffic signal. The signal marks both the entrance to the Ikea parking lots and one entry to the Bay Bridge bike/pedestrian path. The access is clearly marked with a sign for the Bay Trail and an informational display for the Bay Bridge bike/pedestrian path. \u003cstrong>Total mileage: 2.3 miles.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n8. \u003cstrong>Entering the path\u003c/strong> at this point allows you to circle under the Shellmound Street overpass and join the main path.\u003cbr>\n9. \u003cstrong>There is a second entrance \u003c/strong>to the path, from southbound Shellmound Street, immediately across the street from the first described above. Walkers and riders can reach it by crossing at the Ikea traffic signal or by looping under the overpass as described in Step 6 above. It affords read access to people traveling south from Berkeley–say from Aquatic Park and along Shellmound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>West Oakland Option 2, via 7th Street and Maritime Street.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n1. \u003cstrong>Exit the station to 7th Street. \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2. \u003cstrong>Cross 7th Street \u003c/strong>and go left (west) on 7th (there is a traffic signal at Center Street, in front of the station, which is an easy place to cross).\u003cbr>\n3. \u003cstrong>Head west .2 mile. \u003c/strong>The first light you’ll come to is Peralta Street. (If you’ve passed Mandela Parkway or Adeline Street after leaving BART, you’re going the wrong way. Turn around). \u003cstrong>Total mileage: .2 mile. \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n4. \u003cstrong>Continue on 7th Street .2 mile\u003c/strong> to Wood Street (traffic signal). You’ll be riding along the BART tracks (overhead and to the left). \u003cstrong>Total mileage: .4 mile.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n5. \u003cstrong>Continue on 7th Street .6 mile\u003c/strong>, through two viaducts, to Maritime Street. Total mileage: 1.0 mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>CAUTION: The first viaduct contains two traffic signals and freeway on- and off-ramps for Interstate 880. The second viaduct is shorter but darker with bad pavement. You should expect truck traffic from the freeway ramps all the way to the bike/pedestrian trail access points at Maritime Street and Burma Road.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>6. \u003cstrong>At the first traffic signal\u003c/strong> after the viaducts, take the gradual right turn onto Maritime Street. At the next signal, make another gradual right turn. \u003cstrong>Total mileage: 1.1 miles. \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n7. \u003cstrong>Continue north .9 mile to Burma Road,\u003c/strong> passing traffic signals at 14th Street and 21st Street/Bataan Avenue on the way. Burma Road is well marked with a traffic signal. The path is not clearly marked as you approach from the south, but the path access point is to your left, at the northwest corner of the intersection. \u003cstrong>Total mileage: 1.9 miles. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://mapsengine.google.com/map/embed?mid=zVCsuLGcsLog.kGpE33ie6xR0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Driving directions: \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>From San Francisco:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n1. \u003cstrong>At east end of Bay Bridge, \u003c/strong>follow signs for exit to Interstate 880 south (to Alameda/San Jose)\u003cbr>\n2. \u003cstrong>Take exit on the right\u003c/strong> for I-880 south.\u003cbr>\n3. \u003cstrong>From the I-880 exit,\u003c/strong> take the first exit: West Grand Avenue/Maritime Street.\u003cbr>\n4. \u003cstrong>Turn right (south) on Maritime Street\u003c/strong> (the first traffic signal)/\u003cbr>\n5. \u003cstrong>Go 400 feet south on Maritime\u003c/strong> to Burma Road. 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Turn around!). \u003cstrong>Total mileage: .1\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n3. \u003cstrong>Continue west .5 mile\u003c/strong> on 40th Street past signals at West Street, Market Street, to Adeline Street, where 40th jogs slightly to the left. \u003cstrong>Total mileage: .6\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n4. \u003cstrong>Continue west .8 mile\u003c/strong> on 40th Street across San Pablo Avenue, then past signals at Hollis Street and Horton Street to the foot of the overpass, where Shellmound Street begins. \u003cstrong>Total mileage: 1.4. \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n5. \u003cstrong>Continue .4 mile \u003c/strong>across overpass as Shellmound curves right (north) to the first traffic signal. The signal marks both the entrance to the Ikea parking lots and one entry to the Bay Bridge bike/pedestrian path. The access is clearly marked with a sign for the Bay Trail and an informational display for the Bay Bridge bike/pedestrian path. \u003cstrong>Total mileage: 1.8.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n6. \u003cstrong>Entering the path\u003c/strong> at this point allows you to circle under the Shellmound Street overpass and join the main path.\u003cbr>\n7. \u003cstrong>There is a second entrance \u003c/strong>to the path, from southbound Shellmound Street, immediately across the street from the first described above. Walkers and riders can reach it by crossing at the Ikea traffic signal or by looping under the overpass as described in Step 6 above. It affords ready access to people traveling south from Berkeley — say, from Aquatic Park and along Shellmound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bicycling from West Oakland BART:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>West Oakland Option 1, via Mandela Parkway. \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n1. \u003cstrong>Exit the station to Mandela Parkway,\u003c/strong> at the east end of the station property (the end nearer downtown Oakland).\u003cbr>\n2. \u003cstrong>Turn left (north) on Mandela. \u003c/strong>Cross 7th Street. (If you find yourself crossing 5th Street, then curving left under a freeway overpass, you’re going the wrong way. Turn around.)\u003cbr>\n3. \u003cstrong>Continue 1.3 miles north on Mandela\u003c/strong> past major intersections at 14th Street (traffic signal at .5 mile), West Grand Avenue (traffic signal at .9 mile), and 32nd Street (1.3 miles). \u003cstrong>Total mileage: 1.3 miles. \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n4. \u003cstrong>Continue .5 mile on Mandela. \u003c/strong>After 32nd Street, Mandela curves gradually to the left. The parkway narrows to a four-lane street at 34th Street. Then the street curves right (east) under the MacArthur Maze freeway overpasses to Horton Street. \u003cstrong>Total mileage: 1.8 miles. \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n5. \u003cstrong>Turn left at Horton Street, \u003c/strong>a four-way stop (you’ll have a Target Store on your left and a Best Buy on your right at the intersection). Continue .1 mile to 40th Street. \u003cstrong>Total mileage: 1.9 miles. \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n6. \u003cstrong>Turn left at 40th Street. \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n7. \u003cstrong>Continue .4 mile \u003c/strong>across overpass as Shellmound curves right (north) to the first traffic signal. The signal marks both the entrance to the Ikea parking lots and one entry to the Bay Bridge bike/pedestrian path. The access is clearly marked with a sign for the Bay Trail and an informational display for the Bay Bridge bike/pedestrian path. \u003cstrong>Total mileage: 2.3 miles.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n8. \u003cstrong>Entering the path\u003c/strong> at this point allows you to circle under the Shellmound Street overpass and join the main path.\u003cbr>\n9. \u003cstrong>There is a second entrance \u003c/strong>to the path, from southbound Shellmound Street, immediately across the street from the first described above. Walkers and riders can reach it by crossing at the Ikea traffic signal or by looping under the overpass as described in Step 6 above. It affords read access to people traveling south from Berkeley–say from Aquatic Park and along Shellmound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>West Oakland Option 2, via 7th Street and Maritime Street.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n1. \u003cstrong>Exit the station to 7th Street. \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2. \u003cstrong>Cross 7th Street \u003c/strong>and go left (west) on 7th (there is a traffic signal at Center Street, in front of the station, which is an easy place to cross).\u003cbr>\n3. \u003cstrong>Head west .2 mile. \u003c/strong>The first light you’ll come to is Peralta Street. (If you’ve passed Mandela Parkway or Adeline Street after leaving BART, you’re going the wrong way. Turn around). \u003cstrong>Total mileage: .2 mile. \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n4. \u003cstrong>Continue on 7th Street .2 mile\u003c/strong> to Wood Street (traffic signal). 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At the next signal, make another gradual right turn. \u003cstrong>Total mileage: 1.1 miles. \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n7. \u003cstrong>Continue north .9 mile to Burma Road,\u003c/strong> passing traffic signals at 14th Street and 21st Street/Bataan Avenue on the way. Burma Road is well marked with a traffic signal. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/chaincutting20130902-640a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-109560\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/chaincutting20130902-640a.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom cuts a chain with a blow torch to ceremonially open the Bay Bridge on Sept. 2. He is flanked by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. (Photo by Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom cuts a chain with a blowtorch to ceremonially open the Bay Bridge on Sept. 2. He is flanked by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Guide: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/04/how-to-get-to-the-new-bay-bridge-bike-path/\" target=\"_blank\">How to Get to That Stunning New Bay Bridge Bike Path\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:05 p.m.\u003c/strong> KQED's Bryan Goebel reports:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bicycle and pedestrian path is now open on the new Bay Bridge eastern span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and other East Bay mayors cut a bicycle chain to mark the official opening of the Alexander Zuckermann Bicycle-Pedestrian Path. Even though it won't go all the way to Yerba Buena Island until 2015, Quan said, \"Just enjoying that will become the experience that people all over the area, and probably the world, will want to have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The path is named after a tireless \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Alexander-Zuckermann-founder-of-the-East-Bay-2547646.php\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay bicycle advocate\u003c/a> who died in 2007. His son, David Zuckermann, was there for today's events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just like a dream, really,\" Zuckermann said. \"I think it's just more beautiful than you could imagine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2-mile path on the south side of the new eastern span takes you to just west of the tower. It's accessible by bicycle and foot from Emeryville and West Oakland and open from sunrise to sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://baybridgeinfo.org/sites/default/files/images/BayTrail_MAP_SEP_2012_REV.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109777\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Bay-Bridge-Trail-Map-e1378250606255.png\" alt=\"Bay Bridge Trail Map\" width=\"526\" height=\"376\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you can't quite get there yourself, KQED Science has put up this \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/KQEDscience?feature=watch\" target=\"_blank\">video\u003c/a> of the newly opened path, shot with Google Glass and sped up to twice its normal playback speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/KNCGfJNsF7M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday 8:33 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/New-Bay-Bridge-same-old-traffic-4782880.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a> this morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Bay Bridge debuted its new, towering east span Tuesday, but the morning commute is no different than normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic across the bridge is typical of a weekday, the California Highway Patrol reported Tuesday morning. Cars were bumper to bumper at the toll plaza early and the speed across the bridge was about 40 mph, the CHP said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED's Dan Brekke gave this report from earlier in the commute, around 7 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For whatever reason, the commute down the Eastshore Freeway through Berkeley seemed to get heavy and slow earlier than usual this morning. It could have been a surge of people returning to work after Labor Day. Or maybe it was a deliberate slowdown in the pace of the metering lights at the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza to feed traffic onto the new span more deliberately than usual. Or perhaps something unknown. Or all of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I caught a ride in the casual carpool from North Berkeley with a Prius driver who is very … deliberate. Traffic looked terrible from the University Avenue overpass and was backed up on the entrance ramp. But she worked her way over to the carpool lane toward the bridge without much of a problem, and from there we cruised — first slowly, then almost at the speed limit — all the way on to the bridge. Traffic on the span itself seemed lighter and calmer than usual with little of the jockeying and lane changing you expect in the morning commute. Then, as the new bridge’s suspension tower came into view, everyone seemed to slow down to take in the sight. Even though the California Highway Patrol has been warning people not to use the new right-hand shoulder unless they have an emergency, I saw one driver parked there, apparently enjoying a stop-and-gawk moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, the bridge returned to normal as we passed through the cleaned-up Yerba Buena tunnel. Having gotten their first look at the new bridge, most drivers seemed to step on it as they emerged onto the western suspension span.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_24002703/first-morning-commute-new-bay-bridge-span-underway\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa Times reports\u003c/a> that the CHP said one driver already had been arrested for DUI in the wee hours, near the toll plaza, and \"another driver was caught stopped on the old eastern section of the bridge taking photographs, (CHP Officer Sam) Morgan said. The driver apparently accessed the old span by way of Yerba Buena Island.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Joanne Elgart Jennings took this\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9wNjYwyRFs\" target=\"_blank\"> video\u003c/a> last night of the first cars driving over the new span:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/X9wNjYwyRFs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a \u003ca href=\"http://bcove.me/5696liek\" target=\"_blank\">time-lapse video\u003c/a> of the opening procession, from the Bay Area News Group:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject id=\"flashObj\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2645646384001&playerID=76675348001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAF4Pseg~,AuucDCy8Ix3VSqgy6atYY7v7OFM-6GmW&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"base\" value=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\">\u003cparam name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\">\u003cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=2645646384001&playerID=76675348001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAF4Pseg~,AuucDCy8Ix3VSqgy6atYY7v7OFM-6GmW&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003cembed width=\"620\" height=\"349\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\" flashvars=\"videoId=2645646384001&playerID=76675348001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAF4Pseg~,AuucDCy8Ix3VSqgy6atYY7v7OFM-6GmW&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:15 p.m.: From Bay City News:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Bridge, complete with a newly constructed eastern span, opened hours earlier than scheduled, transit officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge had been closed since last Wednesday night while construction crews finalized work on the new eastern span connecting Oakland to Yerba Buena Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge was scheduled to be reopened by 5 a.m. Tuesday but the work was finished faster than anticipated, Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dougherty made the announcement at a celebration held in Oakland this afternoon for the new span, a self-anchored suspension bridge that is replacing an old cantilever bridge that opened more than 75 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Finally. 24 years in the making. First civilian cars on the new eastern span of the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BayBridge&src=hash\">#BayBridge\u003c/a> with an CHP escort \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/JOlFhbQprY\">pic.twitter.com/JOlFhbQprY\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Cy Musiker (@CyrusKQED) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CyrusKQED/statuses/374763880473305089\">September 3, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>UPDATE: New \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BayBridge&src=hash\">#BayBridge\u003c/a> is now open. \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/OHTnw5DhLV\">http://t.co/OHTnw5DhLV\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— 511 Bay Area (@511SFBay) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/511SFBay/statuses/374763645286502400\">September 3, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 8:45 p.m.:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>This just in: the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BayBridge&src=hash\">#BayBridge\u003c/a> will open tonight between 9 and 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CaltransHQ (@CaltransHQ) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CaltransHQ/statuses/374738861177307136\">September 3, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6:00 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, flanked by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, ceremonially opened the Bay Bridge after cutting its chain with a blowtorch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway patrol is leading a procession of classic cars with officials and dignitaries across the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still no word on the exact time the bridge will open to the public tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:45 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty just announced during the ceremonial opening of the new eastern span that the bridge will open tonight, far ahead of the scheduled opening time at 5 a.m. tomorrow morning. Dougherty did not give a time for the opening, so we're still waiting for that crucial detail. Stay tuned.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:15 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Speaking at the Bay Bridge reopening ceremony, Metropolitan Transportation Commission Executive Director Steve Heminger said, \"We are opening the new bridge before the next earthquake, and thank God.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"None of us will forget that, first and foremost, the new east span is a public safety project,\" Heminger said. \"And despite the journey’s length, it has been completed before the arrival of our next big earthquake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The contributions that this bridge will make to the Bay Area are enormous,\" said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was elected in 1989, and I have been waiting for this day along with all of you,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 3 p.m.: \u003c/strong>The Bay Bridge reopening ceremony is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here's an earlier report from Bay City News on the impending bridge opening: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans officials will consider today whether to open the eastern span of the Bay Bridge before its scheduled debut at 5 a.m. Tuesday, a bridge spokesman said this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state public transit agency, which is putting finishing touches such as lane painting on the 2.2-mile span, will assess how close they are to completing the project, bridge spokesman Andrew Gordon said at a news conference in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109511\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/baybridge20120826.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109511\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/baybridge20120826-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"A worker walks on the bike path next to the new Bay Bridge self-anchored suspension tower. After nearly 12 years of construction and an estimated price tag of $6.4 billion, the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will open tonight. The new self-anchored suspension tower is the world's largest. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker walks on the bike path next to the new Bay Bridge self-anchored suspension tower. After nearly 12 years of construction and an estimated price tag of $6.4 billion, the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will open tonight. The new self-anchored suspension tower is the world's largest. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A decision could be made about an earlier opening by 3 p.m. today, when dignitaries including Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee are to attend a private opening ceremony and cut a golden chain at about 4:30 p.m. to celebrate the bridge's completion, Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as of this morning, Caltrans officials were still looking at opening the bridge at 5 a.m. Tuesday, Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol will deploy officers on the bridge once it opens to make sure motorists are following the 50 mph speed limit and are not pulling over to look at the bridge, Officer Daniel Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the bridge does open, CHP officers in patrol cars will be blocking lanes in front of traffic to keep auto speed \"nice and low,\" Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP officers want to make sure that drivers do not succumb to the temptation of stopping to view the new bridge while driving on it, and anyone who blocks traffic will be cited, Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The opening may come as a surprise for the motoring public,\" Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And here's the Associated Press scene-setter on the opening of the new eastern span:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be no public celebration with tens of thousands of pedestrians and fireworks when the ribbon is cut on the new, $6.4 billion eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Monday. Instead, after years of delays and cost overruns, the inauguration of the one of the state's most expensive public works projects will be marked with a relatively low-key event that may not even include the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109516\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/bay-bridge-maintenance.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109516 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/bay-bridge-maintenance-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"While the new eastern span of the bay bridge is being put into place, the western span was covered with maintenance workers over the weekend. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While the new eastern span of the bay bridge is being put into place, the western span was covered with maintenance workers over the weekend. (Photo by Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"People are tired, but everyone's very excited,\" bridge spokesman Andrew Gordon said on Monday morning. \"It's kind of this last lap so to speak, the last leg of this marathon. We are all looking forward to getting to the finish line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The invitation-only inauguration is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m., with a formal chain-cutting ceremony 90 minutes later. About 20 cars, ranging from vintage models to modern electric vehicles, are then expected to take a spin across the span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government officials, labor leaders, survivors of the 1989 earthquake that collapsed two 50-foot sections of the old eastern span and people who were alive when the Bay Bridge first opened in 1936 are expected to attend. Gov. Jerry Brown, who was closely involved in planning the bridge when he was mayor of Oakland, is expected to skip the ceremony to be with his wife at a family gathering in Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new span and the rest of the bridge will not immediately be opened to traffic. It closed on Wednesday night so crews could do final work, and they were still striping, putting up signs and putting down roadway markers on Monday, Gordon said. Some barrier railing also needed to be put up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge is scheduled to open to traffic by 5 a.m. on Tuesday, though it could open earlier. Gordon said a decision will be made on Monday afternoon and could be announced at the ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new section of bridge, designed to make the span safe during earthquakes, has been under construction for almost a decade and follows years of political bickering, engineering challenges and cost overruns. It replaced a structure that was damaged during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March more than two dozen rods, used to anchor the roadway to important earthquake safety structures, cracked after they were tightened. The discovery threatened to delay the bridge's opening by months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge will open with a temporary fix for the broken rods while the permanent repair, expected to be completed in December, is being installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation officials approved the temporary fix last month and voted to open the bridge as originally planned around the Labor Day weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gordon said on Monday that there was not enough time for a public celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for such a celebration originally called for a bridge walk with more than 100,000 people, fireworks, a half-marathon and a concert.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It's accessible by bicycle and foot from Emeryville and West Oakland and open from sunrise to sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://baybridgeinfo.org/sites/default/files/images/BayTrail_MAP_SEP_2012_REV.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109777\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Bay-Bridge-Trail-Map-e1378250606255.png\" alt=\"Bay Bridge Trail Map\" width=\"526\" height=\"376\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you can't quite get there yourself, KQED Science has put up this \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/KQEDscience?feature=watch\" target=\"_blank\">video\u003c/a> of the newly opened path, shot with Google Glass and sped up to twice its normal playback speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/KNCGfJNsF7M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday 8:33 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/New-Bay-Bridge-same-old-traffic-4782880.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a> this morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Bay Bridge debuted its new, towering east span Tuesday, but the morning commute is no different than normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic across the bridge is typical of a weekday, the California Highway Patrol reported Tuesday morning. Cars were bumper to bumper at the toll plaza early and the speed across the bridge was about 40 mph, the CHP said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED's Dan Brekke gave this report from earlier in the commute, around 7 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For whatever reason, the commute down the Eastshore Freeway through Berkeley seemed to get heavy and slow earlier than usual this morning. It could have been a surge of people returning to work after Labor Day. Or maybe it was a deliberate slowdown in the pace of the metering lights at the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza to feed traffic onto the new span more deliberately than usual. Or perhaps something unknown. Or all of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I caught a ride in the casual carpool from North Berkeley with a Prius driver who is very … deliberate. Traffic looked terrible from the University Avenue overpass and was backed up on the entrance ramp. But she worked her way over to the carpool lane toward the bridge without much of a problem, and from there we cruised — first slowly, then almost at the speed limit — all the way on to the bridge. Traffic on the span itself seemed lighter and calmer than usual with little of the jockeying and lane changing you expect in the morning commute. Then, as the new bridge’s suspension tower came into view, everyone seemed to slow down to take in the sight. Even though the California Highway Patrol has been warning people not to use the new right-hand shoulder unless they have an emergency, I saw one driver parked there, apparently enjoying a stop-and-gawk moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, the bridge returned to normal as we passed through the cleaned-up Yerba Buena tunnel. Having gotten their first look at the new bridge, most drivers seemed to step on it as they emerged onto the western suspension span.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_24002703/first-morning-commute-new-bay-bridge-span-underway\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa Times reports\u003c/a> that the CHP said one driver already had been arrested for DUI in the wee hours, near the toll plaza, and \"another driver was caught stopped on the old eastern section of the bridge taking photographs, (CHP Officer Sam) Morgan said. The driver apparently accessed the old span by way of Yerba Buena Island.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Joanne Elgart Jennings took this\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9wNjYwyRFs\" target=\"_blank\"> video\u003c/a> last night of the first cars driving over the new span:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/X9wNjYwyRFs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a \u003ca href=\"http://bcove.me/5696liek\" target=\"_blank\">time-lapse video\u003c/a> of the opening procession, from the Bay Area News Group:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject id=\"flashObj\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2645646384001&playerID=76675348001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAF4Pseg~,AuucDCy8Ix3VSqgy6atYY7v7OFM-6GmW&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"base\" value=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\">\u003cparam name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\">\u003cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=2645646384001&playerID=76675348001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAF4Pseg~,AuucDCy8Ix3VSqgy6atYY7v7OFM-6GmW&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003cembed width=\"620\" height=\"349\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\" flashvars=\"videoId=2645646384001&playerID=76675348001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAF4Pseg~,AuucDCy8Ix3VSqgy6atYY7v7OFM-6GmW&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:15 p.m.: From Bay City News:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Bridge, complete with a newly constructed eastern span, opened hours earlier than scheduled, transit officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge had been closed since last Wednesday night while construction crews finalized work on the new eastern span connecting Oakland to Yerba Buena Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge was scheduled to be reopened by 5 a.m. Tuesday but the work was finished faster than anticipated, Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dougherty made the announcement at a celebration held in Oakland this afternoon for the new span, a self-anchored suspension bridge that is replacing an old cantilever bridge that opened more than 75 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Finally. 24 years in the making. First civilian cars on the new eastern span of the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BayBridge&src=hash\">#BayBridge\u003c/a> with an CHP escort \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/JOlFhbQprY\">pic.twitter.com/JOlFhbQprY\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Cy Musiker (@CyrusKQED) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CyrusKQED/statuses/374763880473305089\">September 3, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>UPDATE: New \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BayBridge&src=hash\">#BayBridge\u003c/a> is now open. \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/OHTnw5DhLV\">http://t.co/OHTnw5DhLV\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— 511 Bay Area (@511SFBay) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/511SFBay/statuses/374763645286502400\">September 3, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 8:45 p.m.:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>This just in: the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BayBridge&src=hash\">#BayBridge\u003c/a> will open tonight between 9 and 10 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CaltransHQ (@CaltransHQ) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CaltransHQ/statuses/374738861177307136\">September 3, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6:00 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, flanked by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, ceremonially opened the Bay Bridge after cutting its chain with a blowtorch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway patrol is leading a procession of classic cars with officials and dignitaries across the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still no word on the exact time the bridge will open to the public tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:45 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty just announced during the ceremonial opening of the new eastern span that the bridge will open tonight, far ahead of the scheduled opening time at 5 a.m. tomorrow morning. Dougherty did not give a time for the opening, so we're still waiting for that crucial detail. Stay tuned.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:15 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Speaking at the Bay Bridge reopening ceremony, Metropolitan Transportation Commission Executive Director Steve Heminger said, \"We are opening the new bridge before the next earthquake, and thank God.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"None of us will forget that, first and foremost, the new east span is a public safety project,\" Heminger said. \"And despite the journey’s length, it has been completed before the arrival of our next big earthquake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The contributions that this bridge will make to the Bay Area are enormous,\" said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was elected in 1989, and I have been waiting for this day along with all of you,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 3 p.m.: \u003c/strong>The Bay Bridge reopening ceremony is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here's an earlier report from Bay City News on the impending bridge opening: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans officials will consider today whether to open the eastern span of the Bay Bridge before its scheduled debut at 5 a.m. Tuesday, a bridge spokesman said this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state public transit agency, which is putting finishing touches such as lane painting on the 2.2-mile span, will assess how close they are to completing the project, bridge spokesman Andrew Gordon said at a news conference in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109511\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/baybridge20120826.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109511\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/baybridge20120826-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"A worker walks on the bike path next to the new Bay Bridge self-anchored suspension tower. After nearly 12 years of construction and an estimated price tag of $6.4 billion, the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will open tonight. The new self-anchored suspension tower is the world's largest. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker walks on the bike path next to the new Bay Bridge self-anchored suspension tower. After nearly 12 years of construction and an estimated price tag of $6.4 billion, the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will open tonight. The new self-anchored suspension tower is the world's largest. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A decision could be made about an earlier opening by 3 p.m. today, when dignitaries including Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee are to attend a private opening ceremony and cut a golden chain at about 4:30 p.m. to celebrate the bridge's completion, Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as of this morning, Caltrans officials were still looking at opening the bridge at 5 a.m. Tuesday, Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol will deploy officers on the bridge once it opens to make sure motorists are following the 50 mph speed limit and are not pulling over to look at the bridge, Officer Daniel Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the bridge does open, CHP officers in patrol cars will be blocking lanes in front of traffic to keep auto speed \"nice and low,\" Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP officers want to make sure that drivers do not succumb to the temptation of stopping to view the new bridge while driving on it, and anyone who blocks traffic will be cited, Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The opening may come as a surprise for the motoring public,\" Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And here's the Associated Press scene-setter on the opening of the new eastern span:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be no public celebration with tens of thousands of pedestrians and fireworks when the ribbon is cut on the new, $6.4 billion eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Monday. Instead, after years of delays and cost overruns, the inauguration of the one of the state's most expensive public works projects will be marked with a relatively low-key event that may not even include the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109516\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/bay-bridge-maintenance.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109516 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/bay-bridge-maintenance-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"While the new eastern span of the bay bridge is being put into place, the western span was covered with maintenance workers over the weekend. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While the new eastern span of the bay bridge is being put into place, the western span was covered with maintenance workers over the weekend. (Photo by Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"People are tired, but everyone's very excited,\" bridge spokesman Andrew Gordon said on Monday morning. \"It's kind of this last lap so to speak, the last leg of this marathon. We are all looking forward to getting to the finish line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The invitation-only inauguration is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m., with a formal chain-cutting ceremony 90 minutes later. About 20 cars, ranging from vintage models to modern electric vehicles, are then expected to take a spin across the span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government officials, labor leaders, survivors of the 1989 earthquake that collapsed two 50-foot sections of the old eastern span and people who were alive when the Bay Bridge first opened in 1936 are expected to attend. Gov. Jerry Brown, who was closely involved in planning the bridge when he was mayor of Oakland, is expected to skip the ceremony to be with his wife at a family gathering in Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new span and the rest of the bridge will not immediately be opened to traffic. It closed on Wednesday night so crews could do final work, and they were still striping, putting up signs and putting down roadway markers on Monday, Gordon said. Some barrier railing also needed to be put up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge is scheduled to open to traffic by 5 a.m. on Tuesday, though it could open earlier. Gordon said a decision will be made on Monday afternoon and could be announced at the ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new section of bridge, designed to make the span safe during earthquakes, has been under construction for almost a decade and follows years of political bickering, engineering challenges and cost overruns. 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"content": "\u003cp>Should you have any doubt whatsoever as to the safety of the Bay Bridge's new eastern span, have no fear. Meet the new Bay Bridge troll, whose protection all drivers are now under. The photo was \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BayBridgeInfo/status/374734614931054592/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\">sent out\u003c/a> over the Bay Bridge Twitter feed last night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109601\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/bridgetroll1-e1378223210852.jpg\" alt=\"bridgetroll\" width=\"418\" height=\"556\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the retrofit after the 1989 earthquake, the old troll, created by artist Bill Roan, was welded in place on the north side of the eastern span, without official sanction. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-bay-bridge-troll-20130901,0,6397151.story\" target=\"_blank\">L.A. Times\u003c/a> has the story of how that occurred...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Employed by a West Oakland shop that allowed workers to fabricate their own creations after hours, this artist had begun work on a gargoyle-like earthquake god named San Andreas shortly before the temblor struck on Oct. 17, 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the owner of a neighboring shop got the contract to fabricate the span's replacement beams, the artist was asked if he wanted to put San Andreas on the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought that was the dumbest idea I'd ever heard,\" he recalled, reasoning that Caltrans would yank it down and his work would wind up in some office or flea market. He declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet as the days passed, he saw how hard the ironworkers labored on the replacement deck. He thought of the everyday citizens who had performed heroic rescues on the collapsed Cypress Street Viaduct nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He changed his mind, opting to come up with a creation based on the ancient lore of trolls — an amalgamation with a dragon's head, the horns of a goat (a nod to the Three Billy Goats Gruff, who cross a cranky troll's bridge) and webbed appendages in case it \"needed to swim around the piers to do work.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=bay+bridge+troll&client=firefox-a&hs=ika&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=gBQmUrCwL4fjiALOzoCYDw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=867\" target=\"_blank\">Photos of the old troll here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In discussing what would happen to the 18-inch figure, Metropolitan Transportation Commission spokesman Randy Rentschler\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Bridge-Troll-s-fate-hangs-in-limbo-4758849.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a>, \"I can tell you that there have been a lot of discussions about this at the highest levels.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, no kidding. From a \u003ca href=\"http://baybridgeinfo.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Troll%20White%20Paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">white paper by the Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit Program\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ideally, this long-serving guardian would be retired to a place of honor, and a new troll welcomed onto the new bridge. Such action would be consistent with a long-standing tradition that recognizes trolls for their superior strength, longevity and protective powers—all characteristics for which the new East Span of the San-Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge is designed as well.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Mercury News wrote yesterday: \"Removed from the old span surreptitiously earlier this week, the shy Bay Bridge troll made a rare appearance, posing for photos before being moved to an \"undisclosed location.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The white paper also discussed plans for a new troll:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Project Management Team recommends that this new Bay Bridge troll, like its predecessor, should be made of steel. The new troll should be housed in a location properly covered and shaded from the sun, to be seen only by those who seek him out. In accordance with Bay Bridge tradition, the fabrication should be performed as a rogue act, either by union ironworkers from the Bay Bridge project, or by a West Oakland group such as The Crucible. The TBPOC simply should make known that the Committee and its constituent agencies will respond permissively to an unofficial project of this sort, pursuing a policy that might best be described as benign noninterference.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No word yet on where the new troll will go.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In discussing what would happen to the 18-inch figure, Metropolitan Transportation Commission spokesman Randy Rentschler\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Bridge-Troll-s-fate-hangs-in-limbo-4758849.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a>, \"I can tell you that there have been a lot of discussions about this at the highest levels.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, no kidding. From a \u003ca href=\"http://baybridgeinfo.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Troll%20White%20Paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">white paper by the Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit Program\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ideally, this long-serving guardian would be retired to a place of honor, and a new troll welcomed onto the new bridge. Such action would be consistent with a long-standing tradition that recognizes trolls for their superior strength, longevity and protective powers—all characteristics for which the new East Span of the San-Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge is designed as well.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Mercury News wrote yesterday: \"Removed from the old span surreptitiously earlier this week, the shy Bay Bridge troll made a rare appearance, posing for photos before being moved to an \"undisclosed location.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The white paper also discussed plans for a new troll:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Project Management Team recommends that this new Bay Bridge troll, like its predecessor, should be made of steel. The new troll should be housed in a location properly covered and shaded from the sun, to be seen only by those who seek him out. In accordance with Bay Bridge tradition, the fabrication should be performed as a rogue act, either by union ironworkers from the Bay Bridge project, or by a West Oakland group such as The Crucible. The TBPOC simply should make known that the Committee and its constituent agencies will respond permissively to an unofficial project of this sort, pursuing a policy that might best be described as benign noninterference.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No word yet on where the new troll will go.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By George Csicsery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109615\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 224px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/01/bay-bridge-update/dog/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109615\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109615\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/dog-e1378226107152-224x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Adam Cohen discovered a group of windsurfers who had found this dog swimming in the bay while on his evening commute in a kayak from San Francisco to Berkeley Monday night, August 12, 2013. (Courtesy of Adam Cohen)\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Cohen discovered a group of windsurfers who had found this dog swimming in the bay while on his evening commute in a kayak from San Francisco to Berkeley Monday night, August 12, 2013. (Courtesy of Adam Cohen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That a \u003ca href=\"//www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/On-the-way-home-boater-rescues-dog-from-SF-Bay-4727557.php\">black labrador \u003c/a>with mysterious origins should be rescued from the middle of San Francisco Bay a mere three weeks before inauguration of the Bay Bridge’s new eastern span was too good to be true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is the first sign that the inauguration of the Bay Area’s troubled bridge might be an auspicious event. Why so? Any European alive before the 19th century would never have missed the connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That the omen went unrecognized by the people preparing to open the bridge on September 3 is testimony to our loss of cultural memory, but the Devil is always in the details, and it is never too late to make amends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fear of bridges failing on or near their inauguration has a rich and varied history, certainly in Europe, but also in the United States. Think of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse on November 7, 1940 a few months after that bridge was completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time it was designed by Leon Moisseiff. The design was flawed, the bridge was too flexible, and that proved fatal. When battered by high winds, it developed an escalating vibration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened next was captured by at least two cameras. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xox9BVSu7Ok\">film\u003c/a> showing the undulating bridge as it collapses was shown in classrooms for decades. Naturally, you can see a dozen re-packaged versions on YouTube. It’s a haunting \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw\">video\u003c/a>. The only casualty was a dog trapped in a car abandoned by its driver.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, the sight of a black dog hovering around the famous medieval bridge in Regensburg, Germany, at night provokes raised eyebrows among savvy locals who recognize the Devil in his canine disguise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/01/bay-bridge-update/dog-saved-in-bay/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109544\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109544\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/dog-saved-in-bay.jpg\" alt=\"The group of windsurfers who found this dog swimming in the bay on Aug. 12(Courtesy of Adam Cohen) \" width=\"640\" height=\"466\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The group of windsurfers who found this dog swimming in the bay on Aug. 12(Courtesy of Adam Cohen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But contrary to what you might believe from recent stories about superstitions connected to black animals, the devil’s presence around the bridge is not a portent of disaster. On the contrary, the hapless black dog of Regensburg’s bridge is the consequence of a success story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regensburg’s old stone bridge, built between 1135 and 1146, was the first to link northern and southern Europe, and for hundreds of years the only way to cross the Danube without a boat or ferry. It has been standing for close to a millennium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge is linked to the black dog through a beautiful legend, the origins of which go back to the time of its construction. The bridge’s architect, it is said, was in competition with the builder of Regensburg’s famous medieval Dom to see who would finish first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he saw that the cathedral was nearly finished and the bridge was nowhere near completion, the bridge builder made a pact with the Devil to help speed up his work. The deal they struck gave the Devil the souls of the first eight feet to cross the bridge. Not bad, thought the Devil, a harvest of four human souls in exchange for some minor technical wizardry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Devil’s help, the bridge was indeed finished first, whereupon the cathedral’s architect threw himself from the Dom’s spire in despair. His suicide is thought to explain the image of a falling man depicted on the cathedral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only did the wily bridge builder win his wager with the cathedral’s architect, when it came time to inaugurate the bridge (listen up, Caltrans) he tricked the Devil by sending a hen, a rooster, and a dog across the bridge before any human crossed. There were the first eight feet to cross the new bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outsmarted by a human, the Devil was forever stuck with the souls of these three beasts, but there was nothing he could do about it. This is believed to be why that black dog has been seen skulking around the old stone bridge in Regensburg ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association of a black dog with the Devil was immortalized in dramatic literature by\u003cbr>\nGoethe in Faust, where Mephistopheles (the Devil) first appears to Faust as a poodle\u003cbr>\nbefore revealing his true identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The link between bridges and the Devil is far more widespread than the Regensburg legend. A Wikipedia \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Bridge\">search\u003c/a> reveals hundreds of devil’s bridges, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Bridge#France\">49 in France\u003c/a> alone. Many of them are some of the oldest and most beautiful bridges in Europe. Why these bridges are tied to stories involving demonic forces in folklore, and why the legends are so similar, is not difficult to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man-made bridge is not natural; it defeats the force of gravity, connecting two places that nature, or God, have separated. That act of defiance is made possible by technologicaldexterity, and in folklore all such acts are related to wizardry, magic, the invocation of supernatural forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In myth, the technologically daring are punished for their efforts at experimentation (think of Icarus and Prometheus). Building bridges over precipitous gorges and wide bodies of water is a dangerous business, and in folklore can only be accomplished if some supernatural power is involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the Devil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking into the Devil’s bridge stories provides some insight into humanity’s\u003cbr>\nlongstanding love/hate relationship with technological progress and scientific innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridges are not only actual paths and connections; they are also metaphorical links\u003cbr>\nbetween two different points, or even phases of life. We are more vulnerable in transition\u003cbr>\nthan on \u003cem>terra firma\u003c/em>. Science and technology are paths to the new and unfamiliar, often\u003cbr>\ninvolving counter-intuitive ideas and processes. Engineers practice a kind of wizardry\u003cbr>\nfew others can fathom. In folklore, how can their unnatural and dangerous enterprises\u003cbr>\nsucceed without demonic assistance?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a charming legend among the Wampanoag people of Martha’s Vineyard that\u003cbr>\nreveals what happens when the Devil backs out of a bridge-building deal. The giant\u003cbr>\nMaushup, who lived on Martha’s Vineyard alone, decided to build a bridge to the\u003cbr>\nmainland. He started by throwing some giant boulders off the cliff at Gayhead into the\u003cbr>\nsea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to one version of the story, he was bitten on the toe by a crab and stopped\u003cbr>\nbuilding the bridge. Another version, told to anthropologist William Simmons of Brown\u003cbr>\nUniversity, has Maushup losing a fight with the Devil. As a result, there is no bridge\u003cbr>\nbetween the Vineyard and the mainland, and all that’s left of Moshup’s project are the\u003cbr>\nboulders in the sea called Devil’s Bridge. It is a treacherous piece of water notorious for\u003cbr>\nshipwrecks caused by collisions with the underwater rocks of Maushop’s unfinished\u003cbr>\nbridge to Cuttyhunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this is meant to shed light on the troubled history of the new eastern span of the\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The 24-year project is being delivered ten years late\u003cbr>\ndue to a series of mishaps that should have alerted Caltrans officials to seek some kind of\u003cbr>\ndiabolic bargain years ago. The recent bad bolts fiasco, as yet unresolved, was preceded\u003cbr>\nby an unbelievable chain of political wrangling that was partially \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vph7egU1gf4\">documented\u003c/a> in David\u003cbr>\nBrown’s 2011 documentary film \u003ca href=\"http://www.thebridgesofar.com/\">The Bridge So Far\u003c/a>. And that was preceded by the battle\u003cbr>\nof designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoever is in charge, CalTrans, Governor Brown, please read up on your folklore. At the\u003cbr>\nvery least, get that young lab rescued from the bay in mid-August, and let it be the first to\u003cbr>\ncross our new bridge. It’s the cheapest bridge insurance policy you’ll ever buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>George Csicery is an Oakland-based writer and \u003ca href=\"http://www.zalafilms.com/\">documentary film producer\u003c/a> who was born in Regensburg, Germany.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time it was designed by Leon Moisseiff. The design was flawed, the bridge was too flexible, and that proved fatal. When battered by high winds, it developed an escalating vibration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened next was captured by at least two cameras. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xox9BVSu7Ok\">film\u003c/a> showing the undulating bridge as it collapses was shown in classrooms for decades. Naturally, you can see a dozen re-packaged versions on YouTube. It’s a haunting \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw\">video\u003c/a>. The only casualty was a dog trapped in a car abandoned by its driver.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, the sight of a black dog hovering around the famous medieval bridge in Regensburg, Germany, at night provokes raised eyebrows among savvy locals who recognize the Devil in his canine disguise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/01/bay-bridge-update/dog-saved-in-bay/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109544\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109544\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/dog-saved-in-bay.jpg\" alt=\"The group of windsurfers who found this dog swimming in the bay on Aug. 12(Courtesy of Adam Cohen) \" width=\"640\" height=\"466\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The group of windsurfers who found this dog swimming in the bay on Aug. 12(Courtesy of Adam Cohen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But contrary to what you might believe from recent stories about superstitions connected to black animals, the devil’s presence around the bridge is not a portent of disaster. On the contrary, the hapless black dog of Regensburg’s bridge is the consequence of a success story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regensburg’s old stone bridge, built between 1135 and 1146, was the first to link northern and southern Europe, and for hundreds of years the only way to cross the Danube without a boat or ferry. It has been standing for close to a millennium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge is linked to the black dog through a beautiful legend, the origins of which go back to the time of its construction. The bridge’s architect, it is said, was in competition with the builder of Regensburg’s famous medieval Dom to see who would finish first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he saw that the cathedral was nearly finished and the bridge was nowhere near completion, the bridge builder made a pact with the Devil to help speed up his work. The deal they struck gave the Devil the souls of the first eight feet to cross the bridge. Not bad, thought the Devil, a harvest of four human souls in exchange for some minor technical wizardry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Devil’s help, the bridge was indeed finished first, whereupon the cathedral’s architect threw himself from the Dom’s spire in despair. His suicide is thought to explain the image of a falling man depicted on the cathedral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only did the wily bridge builder win his wager with the cathedral’s architect, when it came time to inaugurate the bridge (listen up, Caltrans) he tricked the Devil by sending a hen, a rooster, and a dog across the bridge before any human crossed. There were the first eight feet to cross the new bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outsmarted by a human, the Devil was forever stuck with the souls of these three beasts, but there was nothing he could do about it. This is believed to be why that black dog has been seen skulking around the old stone bridge in Regensburg ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association of a black dog with the Devil was immortalized in dramatic literature by\u003cbr>\nGoethe in Faust, where Mephistopheles (the Devil) first appears to Faust as a poodle\u003cbr>\nbefore revealing his true identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The link between bridges and the Devil is far more widespread than the Regensburg legend. A Wikipedia \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Bridge\">search\u003c/a> reveals hundreds of devil’s bridges, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Bridge#France\">49 in France\u003c/a> alone. Many of them are some of the oldest and most beautiful bridges in Europe. Why these bridges are tied to stories involving demonic forces in folklore, and why the legends are so similar, is not difficult to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man-made bridge is not natural; it defeats the force of gravity, connecting two places that nature, or God, have separated. That act of defiance is made possible by technologicaldexterity, and in folklore all such acts are related to wizardry, magic, the invocation of supernatural forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In myth, the technologically daring are punished for their efforts at experimentation (think of Icarus and Prometheus). Building bridges over precipitous gorges and wide bodies of water is a dangerous business, and in folklore can only be accomplished if some supernatural power is involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the Devil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking into the Devil’s bridge stories provides some insight into humanity’s\u003cbr>\nlongstanding love/hate relationship with technological progress and scientific innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridges are not only actual paths and connections; they are also metaphorical links\u003cbr>\nbetween two different points, or even phases of life. We are more vulnerable in transition\u003cbr>\nthan on \u003cem>terra firma\u003c/em>. Science and technology are paths to the new and unfamiliar, often\u003cbr>\ninvolving counter-intuitive ideas and processes. Engineers practice a kind of wizardry\u003cbr>\nfew others can fathom. 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