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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Word of its new completion date was \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Bay-Bridge-Bike-Path-Will-Be-Completed-by-September-Officials-378493395.html\">first reported by NBC Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bicycling advocates say that despite the delays, they're optimistic about the project's future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really important to get this right, and that's what is happening here,\" said Chris Cassidy, spokesman for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbike.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Bicycle Coalition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.baybridgeinfo.org/tbpoc\" target=\"_blank\">Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee\u003c/a>, which oversees seismic retrofit work on the Bay Area's seven major state-owned bridges, approved the overall change from a truss to a cantilever design. On Thursday, Caltrans plans to ask the committee to back the specific contract adjustments to move the project forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans on Monday began measuring and fitting a set of beams that will be used to support an observation deck on the path near Yerba Buena Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bike-pedestrian path currently stops about 1,200 feet short of Yerba Buena Island. The agency expects the extension to cost $8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassidy, the SFBC spokesman, noted in an email that the eastern span bike path is on track to be completed as new residential developments emerge on both Yerba Buena and Treasure islands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current path opened to the public in September 2013 just after the new eastern span opened to motor-vehicle traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The path is open now, but \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2016/03/07/bay-bridge-bike-path-closed-for-a-month/\">it's been closed from time to time\u003c/a> for safety reasons as the old bridge is taken down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, transportation officials and bike advocates acknowledged it could take \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/bay-bridge-western-span-bike-path-design\">another decade\u003c/a> for a bicycle path to be built along the Bay Bridge's western span into San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the entire project is completed, engineers expect as many as 10,000 people to use the path daily, Cassidy said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Transportation officials are \u003ca href=\"http://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2016%200120_SFOBB%20West%20Span%20BPM%20Public%20Workshop%20Presentation-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">narrowing the final designs\u003c/a> for a bike and pedestrian path on the western span of the Bay Bridge, something bike advocates have been dreaming about for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it could still be another decade before the 2.9-mile structure from Yerba Buena Island to San Francisco is funded and built, according to the Bay Area Toll Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even two years ago, I wouldn't have thought we'd be where we are,\" said Renee Rivera, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://bikeeastbay.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Bike East Bay\u003c/a>. \"It seems crazy to be excited about something that's not going to happen for 10 years, but the thing is we've been working on this for maybe 25 years already.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impetus to build a western path comes from a desire to make it possible to ride all the way from Oakland to San Francisco. The new eastern span's biking and walking path currently \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Chronicle-Watch-Bay-Bridge-bike-path-still-a-6603266.php?t=fcbbee0674baa6eec6&cmpid=twitter-premium\" target=\"_blank\">stops short of Yerba Buena Island\u003c/a> because of a long series of construction delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent community meeting that drew more than 100 people, representatives of engineering and design firm \u003ca href=\"http://www.arup.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Arup\u003c/a> presented several designs. They include a path that would be suspended above the current traffic lanes and options for building paths hung on the north or south sides of the western span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big question is where the path should touch down in San Francisco. Engineers have narrowed those alternatives from 19 to six, including Essex Street, the Embarcadero or a Caltrans paint yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10841824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10841824\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2-1440x1080.png\" alt=\"The Essex Street touchdown is one of the less costly options. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2-1440x1080.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2-400x300.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2-768x576.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2-1920x1440.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2-1180x885.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2-960x720.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Essex Street touchdown is one of the less costly options. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Arup )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rivera says she favors the Essex Street landing, partly because it is simpler, would cost less and brings commute cyclists directly into downtown, where most would likely be headed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think Essex is the easiest, the most elegant and the most functional of the options,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estimates are that as many as 10,000 bicyclists would use the path daily (1,300 during peak hours), more than cycle daily on the Golden Gate Bridge, said Rich Coffin, principal engineer on the project for Arup. That number also considers an additional 20,000 residents projected to be living on Treasure Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A biking and walking structure on the western span presents a number of engineering challenges. Rafael Manzanarez, another Arup engineer working on the project, outlined some of them, \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2016/01/21/bay-bridge-bike-path-on-track-to-be-finished-in-2025/\" target=\"_blank\">according to this account from Richmond Confidential's\u003c/a> Sam Omar Hill:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Attaching the main span to the Bay Bridge is the “biggest challenge,” Manzanarez said, because it’s not easy to attach new steel to old steel. Old steel gets brittle. It can’t be welded. The old bridge must be partially taken apart and the new parts must be integrated using bolts and plates to replace existing rivets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just surgical work,” Manzanarez said with a laugh. “It’s getting into somebody’s body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the issue of sinkage. Adding new weight will cause the bridge to be six to eight inches lower, potentially endangering very tall ships and angering the Coast Guard. To solve this problem, Manzanarez said that the suspension wires could be tightened, raising the roadway back up six to eight inches.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Another big question is how to get the path across Yerba Buena Island. The options include a bike and walking path that would be suspended from the ceiling of the Yerba Buena Tunnel, providing a direct connection to the west span. Less costly options include building paths above or below Hillcrest Road, which winds around steep terrain on the south side of the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the project would also feature \"dual high-capacity and high-speed elevators\" on the Embarcadero to quickly move people on and off the path. One option being considered would be to have the elevators open first, in lieu of a ramp touchdown, which could be built later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engineers hope to come up with four alternative designs and present cost estimates at a meeting planned for September, and then narrow them down to two options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the current design effort is to find a design that can be built for \u003ca href=\"https://bikeeastbay.org/news/contract-awarded-study-lower-cost-designs-west-span-pathway\" target=\"_blank\">under $300 million\u003c/a> -- far less than early estimates for the project. Bay Area Toll Authority officials said they are considering raising bridge tolls to cover the cost as part of a regional measure that would also fund a number of other transportation projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to find a design that's affordable, and if we're going to go higher than that, then we need to figure out what that means,\" said Randy Rentschler, a spokesman for the toll authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rentschler said he's cautiously optimistic about the future of a west span path, but added that \"the ambitions of a bike path have to come through a comparative reality against all the other things that the citizens of the Bay Area want to have in that corridor, and in general.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera is hoping that things will progress so construction -- which would take three to five years -- could start as early as 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We hoped we would come to this day where the political will is lined up,\" said Rivera. \"This project feels like it has so much momentum. It feels like there's no going back.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Engineers have narrowed those alternatives from 19 to six, including Essex Street, the Embarcadero or a Caltrans paint yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10841824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10841824\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2-1440x1080.png\" alt=\"The Essex Street touchdown is one of the less costly options. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2-1440x1080.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2-400x300.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2-768x576.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2-1920x1440.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2-1180x885.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2-960x720.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/image-2.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Essex Street touchdown is one of the less costly options. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Arup )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rivera says she favors the Essex Street landing, partly because it is simpler, would cost less and brings commute cyclists directly into downtown, where most would likely be headed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think Essex is the easiest, the most elegant and the most functional of the options,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estimates are that as many as 10,000 bicyclists would use the path daily (1,300 during peak hours), more than cycle daily on the Golden Gate Bridge, said Rich Coffin, principal engineer on the project for Arup. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of our series \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>, we are answering questions from KQED listeners and readers. This one comes from 13-year-old Josiah Raffel-Smith of Richmond. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While traveling across the eastern span of the Bay Bridge recently, he saw a bunch of cranes and construction vehicles. And then this question popped into his head:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How are they going to get construction vehicles off the old Bay Bridge, since it’s not connected at either end anymore?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just wondered, are they supposed to bring in big boats to carry them off?\" he asked. Or maybe helicopters? 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Almost half of the bridge, including the upper deck, has already been removed. Last weekend, in one of the more famous demolition moments, an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/13/where-to-watch-the-big-bay-bridge-implosion\" target=\"_blank\">old pier was imploded in the Bay.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next phase, beginning in January, will involve removing five 504-foot sections, or trusses. Schram describes them as big trapezoidal boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each one will pretty much remain intact, but they won't be as heavy. A crane will lower them onto a custom-built barge, which will tug them over to Pier 7 to be cut into smaller pieces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge is being dismantled from west to east, which brings us back to Josiah's question. 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The lower deck is much thinner than it once was because crews have ground off several inches of concrete, and my feet feel the vibrations of the construction vehicles rumbling nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17042_IMG_1910-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10727210\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17042_IMG_1910-qut-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Crews are nearing the end of phase two of demolition of the older eastern span of the Bay Bridge.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17042_IMG_1910-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17042_IMG_1910-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17042_IMG_1910-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17042_IMG_1910-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17042_IMG_1910-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17042_IMG_1910-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crews are nearing the end of the first phase of demolition of the older eastern span of the Bay Bridge. \u003ccite>(Bryan Goebel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You'd be surprised how much these things vibrated when there was traffic, and you didn't notice because you're in your car with a suspension system,\" explains Darryl Schram, senior engineer on the Bay Bridge demolition project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10762720\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-17-at-4.35.38-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10762720\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-17-at-4.35.38-PM.png\" alt=\"These five truss spans will soon be craned down onto several custom-rigged barges. \" width=\"240\" height=\"186\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These five truss spans will soon be craned down onto several custom-rigged barges. \u003ccite>(California Department of Transportation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around us, crews are busy removing pieces of steel and asphalt, preparing the old bridge for the next phase of dismantling. Almost half of the bridge, including the upper deck, has already been removed. Last weekend, in one of the more famous demolition moments, an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/13/where-to-watch-the-big-bay-bridge-implosion\" target=\"_blank\">old pier was imploded in the Bay.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next phase, beginning in January, will involve removing five 504-foot sections, or trusses. Schram describes them as big trapezoidal boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each one will pretty much remain intact, but they won't be as heavy. A crane will lower them onto a custom-built barge, which will tug them over to Pier 7 to be cut into smaller pieces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge is being dismantled from west to east, which brings us back to Josiah's question. How are they going to get the vehicles off when everything is said and done?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's actually pretty simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We'll just drive them off,\" Schram says, with a chuckle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You see, the old bridge is actually connected to a road on the east side. It's a temporary connection that also links to Caltrans' offices on Burma Road. But it's not exactly visible when you're traveling in a car on the new span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When crews were first demolishing the upper deck, they couldn't get construction vehicles on the bridge. So they had to be craned up from a boat. But now there's an eastern alignment that allows vehicles to travel on and off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know, not as exciting as boats or helicopters ... but definitely easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17045_IMG_1864-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10727212 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17045_IMG_1864-qut-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"This road is used by work crews traveling on and off the old Bay Bridge. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17045_IMG_1864-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17045_IMG_1864-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17045_IMG_1864-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17045_IMG_1864-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17045_IMG_1864-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17045_IMG_1864-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Work crews are able to drive on and off the old Bay Bridge. \u003ccite>(Bryan Goebel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>There's nothing that says \"party\" quite like setting off high explosives and watching something big fall down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you dispute the truth of that observation, we enter as Exhibits A and B video of \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/_6QzIe2Abe4\" target=\"_blank\">the demolition\u003c/a> of Oakland's Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in April 2011 and the \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/7bWGL7vu5PQ\" target=\"_blank\">dynamite-aided leveling\u003c/a> of a 13-story building on the campus of Cal State East Bay in August 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The explosive charges go off, the buildings fall, and the crowd goes wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demolition enthusiasts are no doubt looking forward to the next big event on the Bay Area's infrastructure removal calendar: an implosion later this month designed to remove the largest pier of the old eastern span on the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actual nature of the event -- originally planned for this weekend but now scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 14-15 -- may temper their enthusiasm a little, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans announced the change in plans Tuesday, saying that it had rejected the explosives that were to be used in the demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue, Caltrans chief bridge engineer Brian Maroney told reporters, was how the explosive are packaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to push it down holes, and we want that outside material to be tough,\" Maroney said. \"I don’t want to fiddle around with potentially the outside material ripping as we push it down a hole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it sounds spectacular -- you might be imagining a section of the old span dropping into the water \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRHVMi3LxZE\" target=\"_blank\">Bridge on the River Kwai\u003c/a>\" style -- the reality is supposed to be pretty low key. 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