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(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A final barricade on the edge of the eastern half of the old Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Work is temporarily halted on account of wind direction. About a dozen men stand around, waiting for the headlong easterly winds to shift south-southeast so that any potentially noxious debris set loose by cutting through 80-year-old steel can be carried away from workers on both bridges, old and new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay lets me slip behind the final barricade and walk to the edge. The first part of the eastern span to go is the cantilever truss section, starting with the suspended span stretching between the two towers. Now the old east span is in two parts, separated by a 500-foot gap — and the bay, 300 feet below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/view-from-the-edge.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139581\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/view-from-the-edge.jpg\" alt=\"The view from the edge of the eastern half of the old east span of the Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from the edge of the eastern half of the old east span of the Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stretching out from under the edge is a roughly 50-foot wooden platform,strewn with cables and construction debris. This platform, and the slanted wooden structures along the sides of the bridge, serve as mobile debris shields intended to prevent as much as 95 percent of construction debris from falling into the bay, according to chief project engineer Bill Howe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/steel-cutting.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139583\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/steel-cutting.jpg\" alt=\"A worker cuts through the a section of the cantilever truss section of the old Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker cuts through the a section of the cantilever truss section of the old Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the wind cooperates, work continues. Several men don headgear and pile into a yellow metal basket that hoists them even farther above the bay. With temporary support beams in place, the men resume the arduous task of cutting through the superstructure, severing steel columns that will then be lifted out of place, piece by piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 326px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/demo-diagram.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-139586 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/demo-diagram.jpg\" alt=\"Two color-coded diagrams depicting the demolition process. Provided by the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Seismic Safety Project coalition.\" width=\"326\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two color-coded diagrams depicting the demolition process. Provided by the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Seismic Safety Project coalition.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Bill Howe, one of the goals of the demolition project was to have it take place essentially in the reverse order in which the bridge was constructed. Engineers consulted a \u003ca href=\"http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf4h4nb6gf;developer=local;style=oac4;doc.view=items\" target=\"_blank\">collection of photographs\u003c/a> on display at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library documenting the bridge’s construction from 1933 to 1936.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at those photographs, and compare them to the way the dismantling is going, they’re very nearly identical. It’s just the reverse order of the way the bridge was built,” Howe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/I0035761A.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-139589\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/I0035761A-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the suspended span of the Bay Bridge, dated March 22, 1936. (Courtesy: The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the suspended span of the Bay Bridge, dated March 22, 1936. (Courtesy: The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The complete demolition will take three years — the same amount of time it took workers to construct the entire original bridge in the 1930s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Howe, “It’s out with the old and in with the new.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/old-from-boat.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139592\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/old-from-boat.jpg\" alt=\"The Bay Bridge's old eastern span as seen from from a boat between the old and new spans.(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bay Bridge's old eastern span as seen from from a boat between the old and new spans. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the shadow of the glistening, problem-wracked new Bay Bridge, the original eastern span is coming down piece by piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, equipped with standard-issue hard hat, bright orange safety vest, plastic goggles and borrowed work boots, I venture onto the live demolition site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approaching from the Oakland side, we take an access road that feeds into the severed lower deck of the original span. As we pass through the first of three security checkpoints, the scene turns apocalyptic — a single truck driving down the center of an abandoned roadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/rearview.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139573\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/rearview.jpg\" alt=\"A rearview mirror reflects the apocalyptic scene driving onto the old Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rearview mirror reflects the apocalyptic scene driving onto the old Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Behind a second and then a third security gate, construction materials appear strewn along the side of the road. A little further, the hum of traffic on the new, neighboring bridge is slowly replaced by the din and whir of construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a dozen vehicles are parked in front of a final gate — the last few hundred yards are traveled on foot. Stepping out of the truck and onto the concrete deck stripped bare of asphalt, I pass a pile of twisted metal. It's a discarded traveler, part of a scaffolding system that maintenance workers used to access hard-to-reach parts of the old bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/workers-deck.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139578\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/workers-deck.jpg\" alt=\"Emerging from the shadow of the upper deck on the old east span of the Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerging from the shadow of the upper deck on the old east span of the Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Continuing west: The darkness of the lower deck fades away as you walk out of the shadow of the upper deck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers mill around the last 100 yards of the eastern section of the bridge, marked by a final barricade with the warning: “Active Demolition, No access beyond this point.” A forklift rumbles by, and I can feel the bridge wobble and sway beneath me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/danger-sign.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139574\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/danger-sign.jpg\" alt=\"A final barricade on the edge of the eastern half of the old Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A final barricade on the edge of the eastern half of the old Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Work is temporarily halted on account of wind direction. About a dozen men stand around, waiting for the headlong easterly winds to shift south-southeast so that any potentially noxious debris set loose by cutting through 80-year-old steel can be carried away from workers on both bridges, old and new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay lets me slip behind the final barricade and walk to the edge. The first part of the eastern span to go is the cantilever truss section, starting with the suspended span stretching between the two towers. Now the old east span is in two parts, separated by a 500-foot gap — and the bay, 300 feet below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/view-from-the-edge.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139581\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/view-from-the-edge.jpg\" alt=\"The view from the edge of the eastern half of the old east span of the Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from the edge of the eastern half of the old east span of the Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stretching out from under the edge is a roughly 50-foot wooden platform,strewn with cables and construction debris. This platform, and the slanted wooden structures along the sides of the bridge, serve as mobile debris shields intended to prevent as much as 95 percent of construction debris from falling into the bay, according to chief project engineer Bill Howe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/steel-cutting.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139583\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/steel-cutting.jpg\" alt=\"A worker cuts through the a section of the cantilever truss section of the old Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker cuts through the a section of the cantilever truss section of the old Bay Bridge. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the wind cooperates, work continues. Several men don headgear and pile into a yellow metal basket that hoists them even farther above the bay. With temporary support beams in place, the men resume the arduous task of cutting through the superstructure, severing steel columns that will then be lifted out of place, piece by piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 326px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/demo-diagram.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-139586 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/demo-diagram.jpg\" alt=\"Two color-coded diagrams depicting the demolition process. Provided by the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Seismic Safety Project coalition.\" width=\"326\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two color-coded diagrams depicting the demolition process. Provided by the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Seismic Safety Project coalition.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Bill Howe, one of the goals of the demolition project was to have it take place essentially in the reverse order in which the bridge was constructed. Engineers consulted a \u003ca href=\"http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf4h4nb6gf;developer=local;style=oac4;doc.view=items\" target=\"_blank\">collection of photographs\u003c/a> on display at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library documenting the bridge’s construction from 1933 to 1936.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at those photographs, and compare them to the way the dismantling is going, they’re very nearly identical. It’s just the reverse order of the way the bridge was built,” Howe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/I0035761A.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-139589\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/I0035761A-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the suspended span of the Bay Bridge, dated March 22, 1936. (Courtesy: The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the suspended span of the Bay Bridge, dated March 22, 1936. (Courtesy: The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The complete demolition will take three years — the same amount of time it took workers to construct the entire original bridge in the 1930s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Howe, “It’s out with the old and in with the new.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/old-from-boat.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-139592\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/old-from-boat.jpg\" alt=\"The Bay Bridge's old eastern span as seen from from a boat between the old and new spans.(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bay Bridge's old eastern span as seen from from a boat between the old and new spans. 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"content": "\u003cp>Shoddy bolts, bad welds, dangerous rust, frayed cables. With \u003cem>even more\u003c/em> reports of problems on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, we — like everyone in the Bay Area — are suffering from bad news fatigue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We thought we’d remedy this by basking in the glory of the old San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, relived through decades of Hollywood movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Bay Bridge opened to the public in November 1936, it was seen as a technological marvel, an engineering feat that exemplified mankind’s ability. Since then, the bridge has made numerous notable film appearances over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">[vimeo 97857852 w=640 h=360]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, all the clips we scrounged up show the still-functioning, towered suspension span of the bridge west of Yerba Buena Island, overlooking the more modest beauty of the cantilevered eastern stretch that is disappearing piece-by-piece in front of our eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With sometimes glaring anachronistic errors, relive the 75-year history of the Bay Bridge in stunning Technicolor (and less-stunning black and white).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034172/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Shadow of the Thin Man\"\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> (1941) (0:00-1:15) (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6cvDVgz_OE\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/shadow-still.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-138711\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/shadow-still.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"482\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from \"Shadow of the Thin Man\" (1941), directed by W.S. Van Dyke.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Myrna Loy and the mustachioed William Powell are pulled over for speeding on the upper deck of the bridge. The outdoor scene on the bridge, with Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill visible in the background, includes an impressive tracking shot amid three lanes of traffic. In what will become a bit of a trend, the plot has the two characters traveling eastbound (the next shots include the MacArthur Maze and later, Golden Gate Fields) despite heading west toward the city. \u003cem>(*the clip has been edited from the original).\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037366/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\">\"Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo\"\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> (1944) (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaLgSlbS1lk\" target=\"_blank\">1:15-2:05\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138713\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/thirty-seconds-still.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-138713\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/thirty-seconds-still.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"468\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from \"Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo\" (1944), directed by Mervyn LeRoy.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's easy to forget the still-new \"superstructure\" was still awe-inspiring nearly 10 years after it was completed. Also impressive, the terrific shot of a B-25 bomber flying under the Bay Bridge. Such shots led to the film, starring Spencer Tracy as Lt. Col. James Doolittle of \"Doolittle Raid\" fame, winning an Oscar for Best Special Effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Graduate\"\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> (1967) (2:04-2:40)(\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsdvhJTqLak\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/graduate-still2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-138718\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/graduate-still2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from \"The Graduate\" (1967), directed by Mike Nichols.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dulcet tones of Simon & Garfunkel and vivid Technicolor bring us to the most recognizable Bay Bridge clip. Dustin Hoffman's character, Ben Braddock, inconceivably travels westbound ... to Berkeley?! An anachronism that's hard to ignore, bested only by the beauty of the single, slow-moving 35-second tracking shot revealing the towered suspension span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/?ref_=nv_sr_2\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\"Koyaanisqatsi\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (1982) (2:40-2:50)(\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PirH8PADDgQ\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/bay-bridge-still-koyaanisqatsi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-138703\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/bay-bridge-still-koyaanisqatsi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from \"Koyaanisqatsi\" (1982), directed by Godfrey Reggio.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blink and you'll miss it. The Godfrey Reggio-directed visual documentary, accompanied by the rhythmic chaos of Philip Glass' score, features two incredibly brief POV shots driving through the Yerba Buena Island tunnel into the sunlight of the western span. But strangely, in typical anachronistic mystery, those shots are cut out-of-order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119190/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\">\"George of the Jungle\"\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> (1997) (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WtqtD--OiE\" target=\"_blank\">2:50-5:25\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/george-still.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-138715\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/george-still.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"471\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from \"George of the Jungle\" (1997), directed by Sam Weisman.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunky, 1990s Brendan Fraser swings on \"the biggest rope bridge he had ever seen.\" Complete with stranded parachutist, sweeping aerial shots and the poetic line, \"To swing, or not to swing?\" (yes, really), the \"George of the Jungle\" action sequence is perhaps the climax of the Bay Bridge's cinematic history. \"Watch out for that ...\" straight-to-video sequel, \"George of the Jungle 2\" (2003).\u003cem> (*the clip has been edited from the original)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The outdoor scene on the bridge, with Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill visible in the background, includes an impressive tracking shot amid three lanes of traffic. In what will become a bit of a trend, the plot has the two characters traveling eastbound (the next shots include the MacArthur Maze and later, Golden Gate Fields) despite heading west toward the city. \u003cem>(*the clip has been edited from the original).\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037366/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\">\"Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo\"\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> (1944) (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaLgSlbS1lk\" target=\"_blank\">1:15-2:05\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138713\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/thirty-seconds-still.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-138713\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/thirty-seconds-still.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"468\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from \"Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo\" (1944), directed by Mervyn LeRoy.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's easy to forget the still-new \"superstructure\" was still awe-inspiring nearly 10 years after it was completed. Also impressive, the terrific shot of a B-25 bomber flying under the Bay Bridge. Such shots led to the film, starring Spencer Tracy as Lt. Col. James Doolittle of \"Doolittle Raid\" fame, winning an Oscar for Best Special Effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Graduate\"\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> (1967) (2:04-2:40)(\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsdvhJTqLak\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/graduate-still2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-138718\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/graduate-still2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from \"The Graduate\" (1967), directed by Mike Nichols.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dulcet tones of Simon & Garfunkel and vivid Technicolor bring us to the most recognizable Bay Bridge clip. Dustin Hoffman's character, Ben Braddock, inconceivably travels westbound ... to Berkeley?! An anachronism that's hard to ignore, bested only by the beauty of the single, slow-moving 35-second tracking shot revealing the towered suspension span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/?ref_=nv_sr_2\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\"Koyaanisqatsi\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (1982) (2:40-2:50)(\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PirH8PADDgQ\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/bay-bridge-still-koyaanisqatsi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-138703\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/bay-bridge-still-koyaanisqatsi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from \"Koyaanisqatsi\" (1982), directed by Godfrey Reggio.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blink and you'll miss it. The Godfrey Reggio-directed visual documentary, accompanied by the rhythmic chaos of Philip Glass' score, features two incredibly brief POV shots driving through the Yerba Buena Island tunnel into the sunlight of the western span. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Dan Brekke and Bryan Goebel\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-126015 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/RS8637_IMG_1261-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Former San Francisco Mayor and California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown poses with the sign now bearing his name. (Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Mayor and California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown poses with the sign now bearing his name. (Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED) \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s official, kind of: In a ceremony today, the western span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was renamed after former Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. We say it’s “kind of” official not to detract from the solemnity of the occasion but to acknowledge that: 1) many locals still don’t like the idea; 2) very few people use the last “official” new name hung on the bridge (more on that in the post below); and, 3) can anyone really doubt the span should be named after Emperor Norton, the person who first proposed it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Brown himself was proud of the honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is frankly an incredible achievement,” Brown told a crowd of more than 500 state and local officials during a ceremony on Treasure Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around noon, two green bridge signs were placed on both sides of the western span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really an honor for African-Americans and for the African-American community,” Brown told reporters before the ceremony. “There’s nothing in the nation except the King holiday that has the universality of this bridge in terms of its carrying the name of an African American, nothing even close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, the Legislature approved a resolution by Assemblyman Isadore Hall to rename the bridge despite opposition from Governor Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents said that under state rules, people must be dead before infrastructure projects are named after them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall fired back at opponents, praising Brown’s legacy as a civil rights activist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need not think of this as a bridge named after Willie Brown. Anyone who knows him knows that Willie Brown Jr. is the bridge that makes the ends connect,” Hall said. “Is he alive? Yes he is. Is he well and kicking? Yes he is. Is he deserving of this bridge? Yes, he is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown told reporters he wanted his case to serve as an example of how to thank people while they are still alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say `thank you’ after they’re dead is a little bizarre,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked by a reporter how he wanted to respond to his enemies, who might look down on this day, Brown said: “I don’t really have any enemies. You know, in my world of politics an enemy is potentially a friend, if you play ‘em right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporter: “What do you say to the naysayers who’ve been very critical, that you were the reason for the cost overruns, the delays…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown: “No, that’s the wrong part of the bridge. My bridge doesn’t have any leaks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So how did the name come to be?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve written about the naming before. It was accomplished last year through a legislative resolution that Gov. Jerry Brown, who did not like the idea, could not veto. Here’s some of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/13/bay-bridge-renamed-for-willie-brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a September post\u003c/a> on the issue:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Well, one San Franciscan \u003cem>loves \u003c/em>the renaming of the Bay Bridge’s western span for Willie Brown, former Assembly speaker, former mayor, newspaper pundit and best connected of lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the state Senate passed \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140ACR65\">the renaming resolution\u003c/a> yesterday, reporters asked Brown if he was happy with the change. “You kidding me? You no longer can call me Willie. You’ve got to call me ‘The Bridge!’ ” He said just thinking about driving across the renamed bridge is “a wonderful experience,” but he added that naming the bridge after him will have a wider meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it will be a guidepost for lots of young people in the state of California,” Brown said. “After all, this is the only thing that any of us know of any real significance universal that’s named after a person of color. There is nothing else universal. There are schools, there are roadways, there are a whole lot of other things. But this is California, and to have an African American adorn any instrument in California for the first time in the history of this state is unusually significant.” \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> You no longer can call me Willie. You’ve got to call me ‘The Bridge!’ \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That’s Brown’s take, but so far, he doesn’t have a lot of company (outside of the legislators who hatched the plan) in cheering for the Willie Brown Bridge. Gov. Jerry Brown let the Legislature know earlier in the week he didn’t like the idea (though he couldn’t stop it since the renaming was a resolution, not a proposed law). The San Francisco Chronicle, which runs Willie Brown’s Sunday column, editorialized against it. Some members of the city’s Board of Supervisors, past and present, turned thumbs-down on the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you think that’s just a bunch of local politicos and establishment types leveraging their collective envy or resentment against Willie Brown, check out KQED’s “Forum.” The show ran \u003ca href=\"www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201309120930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a half-hour segment\u003c/a> yesterday asking whether the bridge should be renamed for the former mayor. Virtually no one had a good word to say for the idea, and after the show, a show intern was busy policing some of the nastier comments that listeners had posted to the “Forum” site. ..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… Still unknown: Whether the renaming will ever take practical effect. Some are suggesting that Gov. Brown could somehow stop Caltrans from spending money to put up signs for Speaker/Mayor Brown on the bridge (it seems like you’d need an electron microscope to find that line item in the Caltrans budget). And some are actually taking action to stop the renaming from going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco disability rights activist and good government advocate Bob Planthold has gone to court to keep the Bay Bridge the Bay Bridge. The suit (appended at the end of this post), which names the state and a host of legislative committees and individual lawmakers, essentially says the Legislature rammed through the renaming resolution against the will of local residents, violating their due process rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planthold’s suit also notes the bridge has already been renamed once: in 1986, for Mayor James “Sunny Jim” Rolph (though weirdly, the lawsuit refers to the late mayor as “James ‘Sunny’ Rudolph”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the lawsuit brings up an alternative idea for renaming the bridge — one proposed a while back and which, ironically, is gaining new support because of the whole Willie Brown Bridge stink. “There is … an active effort to re-designate the Bay Bridge for Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton … widely credited as first conceiving of the Bay Bridge in a series of proclamations in 1872.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s more on that “active effort”: \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/petitions/re-name-the-bay-bridge-the-emperor-norton-bay-bridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Change.org petition\u003c/a> to the state. Several thousand people have signed up so far.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here’s Planthold’s lawsuit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca title=\"View Bob Planthold v. State of California et al., San Francisco, Jerry Brown, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/167951607/Bob-Planthold-v-State-of-California-et-al-San-Francisco-Jerry-Brown-San-Francisco-Oakland-Bay-Bridge\">Bob Planthold v. 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Is he well and kicking? Yes he is. Is he deserving of this bridge? Yes, he is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown told reporters he wanted his case to serve as an example of how to thank people while they are still alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say `thank you’ after they’re dead is a little bizarre,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked by a reporter how he wanted to respond to his enemies, who might look down on this day, Brown said: “I don’t really have any enemies. You know, in my world of politics an enemy is potentially a friend, if you play ‘em right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporter: “What do you say to the naysayers who’ve been very critical, that you were the reason for the cost overruns, the delays…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown: “No, that’s the wrong part of the bridge. My bridge doesn’t have any leaks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So how did the name come to be?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve written about the naming before. It was accomplished last year through a legislative resolution that Gov. Jerry Brown, who did not like the idea, could not veto. Here’s some of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/13/bay-bridge-renamed-for-willie-brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a September post\u003c/a> on the issue:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Well, one San Franciscan \u003cem>loves \u003c/em>the renaming of the Bay Bridge’s western span for Willie Brown, former Assembly speaker, former mayor, newspaper pundit and best connected of lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the state Senate passed \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140ACR65\">the renaming resolution\u003c/a> yesterday, reporters asked Brown if he was happy with the change. “You kidding me? You no longer can call me Willie. You’ve got to call me ‘The Bridge!’ ” He said just thinking about driving across the renamed bridge is “a wonderful experience,” but he added that naming the bridge after him will have a wider meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it will be a guidepost for lots of young people in the state of California,” Brown said. “After all, this is the only thing that any of us know of any real significance universal that’s named after a person of color. There is nothing else universal. There are schools, there are roadways, there are a whole lot of other things. But this is California, and to have an African American adorn any instrument in California for the first time in the history of this state is unusually significant.” \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> You no longer can call me Willie. You’ve got to call me ‘The Bridge!’ \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That’s Brown’s take, but so far, he doesn’t have a lot of company (outside of the legislators who hatched the plan) in cheering for the Willie Brown Bridge. Gov. Jerry Brown let the Legislature know earlier in the week he didn’t like the idea (though he couldn’t stop it since the renaming was a resolution, not a proposed law). The San Francisco Chronicle, which runs Willie Brown’s Sunday column, editorialized against it. Some members of the city’s Board of Supervisors, past and present, turned thumbs-down on the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you think that’s just a bunch of local politicos and establishment types leveraging their collective envy or resentment against Willie Brown, check out KQED’s “Forum.” The show ran \u003ca href=\"www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201309120930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a half-hour segment\u003c/a> yesterday asking whether the bridge should be renamed for the former mayor. Virtually no one had a good word to say for the idea, and after the show, a show intern was busy policing some of the nastier comments that listeners had posted to the “Forum” site. ..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… Still unknown: Whether the renaming will ever take practical effect. Some are suggesting that Gov. Brown could somehow stop Caltrans from spending money to put up signs for Speaker/Mayor Brown on the bridge (it seems like you’d need an electron microscope to find that line item in the Caltrans budget). And some are actually taking action to stop the renaming from going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco disability rights activist and good government advocate Bob Planthold has gone to court to keep the Bay Bridge the Bay Bridge. The suit (appended at the end of this post), which names the state and a host of legislative committees and individual lawmakers, essentially says the Legislature rammed through the renaming resolution against the will of local residents, violating their due process rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planthold’s suit also notes the bridge has already been renamed once: in 1986, for Mayor James “Sunny Jim” Rolph (though weirdly, the lawsuit refers to the late mayor as “James ‘Sunny’ Rudolph”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the lawsuit brings up an alternative idea for renaming the bridge — one proposed a while back and which, ironically, is gaining new support because of the whole Willie Brown Bridge stink. “There is … an active effort to re-designate the Bay Bridge for Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton … widely credited as first conceiving of the Bay Bridge in a series of proclamations in 1872.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s more on that “active effort”: \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/petitions/re-name-the-bay-bridge-the-emperor-norton-bay-bridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Change.org petition\u003c/a> to the state. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/bay-bridge-bolts.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-92879\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/bay-bridge-bolts.jpg\" alt=\"A key problem on the Bay Bridge’s new self-anchored suspension span: Massive steel rods designed to anchor seismic safety devices snapped soon after the nuts were tightened early last year. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A key problem on the Bay Bridge’s new self-anchored suspension span: Massive steel rods designed to anchor seismic safety devices snapped soon after the nuts were tightened early last year. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A report commissioned by a state Senate committee contains a litany of criticisms of Caltrans for its handling of construction problems on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report was put together in preparation for \u003ca href=\"http://stran.senate.ca.gov/agenda\" target=\"_blank\">an investigatory hearing Friday\u003c/a> by the Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing. The panel, chaired by Concord Democrat Mark DeSaulnier, is in the midst of a review of infrastructure \"megaprojects.\" That inquiry was prompted by delays and cost overruns in building the new Bay Bridge span, a project that had an original price tag of about $1.4 billion but which ultimately took nearly $6.5 billion to complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://stran.senate.ca.gov/sites/stran.senate.ca.gov/files/DeWolkreportfinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge: Basic Reforms for the Future\u003c/a>,\" blasts Caltrans for lack of accountability for problems with the project and \"chronic attempts to keep many of the serious safety allegations quiet.\" (The complete 39-page report is embedded at the end of this post.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'This inquiry has come to the inevitable conclusion that there are legitimate concerns that this appears to be part of an institutionalized ... lack of transparency in the project.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This inquiry has come to the inevitable conclusion that there are legitimate concerns that this appears to be part of an institutionalized, if not malicious, lack of transparency in the project,\" the report says. The document was prepared by veteran Bay Area journalist Roland De Wolk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans, which by now has been dealing with years of bad press over the bridge project, says it's studying the report and will respond during the Senate committee hearing Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report has gotten widespread media attention. A couple sample leads:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Vorderbrueggen\u003c/strong>, Contra Costa Times: \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_24970599/bay-bridge-construction-managers-systematically-shut-down-safety\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Bridge construction managers systematically shut down safety critics, investigation concludes\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Caltrans systematically squelched serious allegations about the structural safety of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, concluded an investigation commissioned by the state Senate Transportation Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans managers marginalized dissenters, fired critics, reassigned outspoken engineers and urged those involved to avoid putting details of problems or issues in writing that would have to be disclosed under the state's Public Records Act, the report concluded.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jaxon Van Derbeken\u003c/strong>, San Francisco Chronicle: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Caltrans-accused-of-trying-to-hide-Bay-Bridge-5166927.php\" target=\"_blank\">Caltrans accused of trying to hide Bay Bridge problems\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A Caltrans engineer and an outside expert working on the Bay Bridge eastern span accused agency officials of discounting warnings about cracked welds on the bridge, and telling them not to put their concerns in writing to keep them from becoming public, according to a report commissioned for a state Senate committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official overseeing the long-delayed, $6.4 billion project told a Caltrans engineer who had examined the Chinese-made welds \"not to record his concerns in writing, either on paper or e-mail, but rather to communicate orally,\" said the report for the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee, which was released Wednesday. A quality-control consultant said Caltrans supervisors \"did not want a record that would be legally available through the California Public Records Act,\" the report said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And \u003cstrong>Charles Piller\u003c/strong> of the Sacramento Bee \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/01/22/6093564/senate-report-caltrans-ignored.html\" target=\"_blank\">runs down the report's key disclosures\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Quality control managers found thousands of cracks in welds produced by a Chinese contractor for the span’s signature tower and roadway. Rather than ordering all needed fixes, top California Department of Transportation managers replaced those who discovered the problems.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Millions of dollars were paid to the same Chinese contractor to speed up work after it fell behind schedule and bridge officials urgently wanted faster results.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bridge officials rejected warnings in 2008 that suspect anchor rods for the suspension span were not adequately tested; some of those rods snapped last year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Officials frequently told contractors and employees not to put concerns about quality into writing – ostensibly to avoid disclosure under the state Public Records Act\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the latest from the Associated Press on the Bay Bridge report, followed by the report itself:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JHDearen\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Dearen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California Senate report released Wednesday on the construction of the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge raises questions about the quality of workmanship used to build the $6.3 billion span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report by the state Senate's Transportation and Housing Committee contains testimony from engineers that question the durability of welds on bridge pieces produced in China and the integrity of large bolts used to hold earthquake-safety equipment in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, both engineers say that despite the defects, they don't believe the bridge to be unsafe, but that parts of it will need expensive retrofitting sooner than they should.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report's investigators found that California Department of Transportation managers dismissed concerns from quality-assurance experts that the Chinese firm Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co. 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A couple sample leads:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Vorderbrueggen\u003c/strong>, Contra Costa Times: \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_24970599/bay-bridge-construction-managers-systematically-shut-down-safety\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Bridge construction managers systematically shut down safety critics, investigation concludes\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Caltrans systematically squelched serious allegations about the structural safety of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, concluded an investigation commissioned by the state Senate Transportation Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans managers marginalized dissenters, fired critics, reassigned outspoken engineers and urged those involved to avoid putting details of problems or issues in writing that would have to be disclosed under the state's Public Records Act, the report concluded.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jaxon Van Derbeken\u003c/strong>, San Francisco Chronicle: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Caltrans-accused-of-trying-to-hide-Bay-Bridge-5166927.php\" target=\"_blank\">Caltrans accused of trying to hide Bay Bridge problems\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A Caltrans engineer and an outside expert working on the Bay Bridge eastern span accused agency officials of discounting warnings about cracked welds on the bridge, and telling them not to put their concerns in writing to keep them from becoming public, according to a report commissioned for a state Senate committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official overseeing the long-delayed, $6.4 billion project told a Caltrans engineer who had examined the Chinese-made welds \"not to record his concerns in writing, either on paper or e-mail, but rather to communicate orally,\" said the report for the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee, which was released Wednesday. A quality-control consultant said Caltrans supervisors \"did not want a record that would be legally available through the California Public Records Act,\" the report said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And \u003cstrong>Charles Piller\u003c/strong> of the Sacramento Bee \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/01/22/6093564/senate-report-caltrans-ignored.html\" target=\"_blank\">runs down the report's key disclosures\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Quality control managers found thousands of cracks in welds produced by a Chinese contractor for the span’s signature tower and roadway. Rather than ordering all needed fixes, top California Department of Transportation managers replaced those who discovered the problems.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Millions of dollars were paid to the same Chinese contractor to speed up work after it fell behind schedule and bridge officials urgently wanted faster results.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bridge officials rejected warnings in 2008 that suspect anchor rods for the suspension span were not adequately tested; some of those rods snapped last year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Officials frequently told contractors and employees not to put concerns about quality into writing – ostensibly to avoid disclosure under the state Public Records Act\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the latest from the Associated Press on the Bay Bridge report, followed by the report itself:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JHDearen\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Dearen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California Senate report released Wednesday on the construction of the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge raises questions about the quality of workmanship used to build the $6.3 billion span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report by the state Senate's Transportation and Housing Committee contains testimony from engineers that question the durability of welds on bridge pieces produced in China and the integrity of large bolts used to hold earthquake-safety equipment in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, both engineers say that despite the defects, they don't believe the bridge to be unsafe, but that parts of it will need expensive retrofitting sooner than they should.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report's investigators found that California Department of Transportation managers dismissed concerns from quality-assurance experts that the Chinese firm Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co. 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"content": "\u003cp>A while ago, I happened across a time-lapse video of San Francisco scenes. In less than five minutes, it seemed to capture the sublime unfolding of one day here and convey a notion of the city's beauty and vitality. Much more recently, one of our online producers, Lisa Pickoff-White, engaged former KQED staffer and noted photography experimenter Ken Murphy to shoot a time lapse of the last 49ers game at Candlestick Park, which she then mixed with voices of fans reflecting on the end of the Candlestick era. The result was moving and compressed the experience of an evening, and of memories that stretched back for decades, into less than two minutes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, those pieces got us thinking about what other time-lapse projects we might take on in the future. And also, about time lapses videos we've seen that amazed us. 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The agency has said the old bridge, notorious for its failure in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, will be mostly gone within a year; the full demolition project, down to the \"mud line\" beneath the surface of the bay, will take three years. But last night, Caltrans said the deconstruction project will be delayed for awhile as contractors finish work on measures to prevent debris from falling into the bay waters. It's likely the taking-apart process will commence by next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the prospect of the eastern span being taken down — without explosives, if you were wondering — got me thinking about major Bay Area demolition events of the past. I don't want to use the term too broadly in a region where nature has carried out destruction on a grand scale. Exhibits include the 1906 earthquake and fire, Loma Prieta and the Oakland Hills fire, among many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there's something captivating both about seeing what we've built get taken down and in viewing others' fascination with the process. I once went to Las Vegas to \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2007/03/22/stardust_2/\" target=\"_blank\">witness the destruction\u003c/a> of the once-iconic Stardust Hotel, and watching the crowd's anticipation and reaction was almost as fun as hearing the exploding dynamite and scurrying away from the billowing cloud of concrete dust that rolled down the Strip.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">There's something captivating both about seeing what we've built get taken down and in viewing others' fascination with the process.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Here's a brief list — you might have other local demolitions in mind — of great moments in local structure removal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Sea Cliff sinkhole (1995):\u003c/strong> I put this at the top of my list because it was shown on live TV. And no, it was not a planned demolition. In December 1995, a storm sewer near 25th Avenue and Lake Street broke during a major winter storm. The water rushing from the sewer excavated a giant sinkhole that swallowed a mansion. Here's how the Associated Press described the scene: \"A three-story house in a neighborhood of million-dollar homes toppled into an enormous sinkhole and broke apart in a spray of timbers, walls and ceilings. ... A neighbor's garage also dropped into the hole, and at least seven other houses in San Francisco's exclusive Sea Cliff neighborhood were evacuated, including the childhood home of photographer Ansel Adams, which was built in 1902.\" And here's video of the collapse:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/GlGs9222JqU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>2. The Embarcadero Freeway (1989): \u003c/strong>The Loma Prieta earthquake was a disaster and a tragedy, destroying dozens of residences and killing more than 60 people, most of whom perished in the collapse of West Oakland's Cypress Freeway. But the quake did bestow one long-term gift: It damaged San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway so badly that the city had little choice but to tear down the double-deck structure that had walled off the Ferry Building and the rest of the northeastern waterfront. The demolition led eventually to creation of today's more welcoming (if often congested) Embarcadero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Cal State East Bay-Warren Hall (2013):\u003c/strong> Here's a demolition with a cause. Cal State East Bay decided to bring down a 13-story building on campus, Warren Hall. Because of the structure's proximity to the Hayward Fault, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2013/07/22/east-bay-building-demolition-to-provide-rare-earthquake-insights/\" target=\"_blank\">saw an opportunity to study seismic activity\u003c/a> in the area when the building was imploded. Here's a video of the building coming down in August 2013:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/kWnN9KGCIic\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Old Carquinez Bridge (2006): \u003c/strong>In 2003, Caltrans completed a striking new suspension bridge to carry southbound Interstate 80 traffic across the Carquinez Strait between Vallejo and Crockett. That meant the old bridge, built in 1927, could go. It was a slow-motion affair, as recounted in the National Geographic documentary, \"\u003ca href=\"http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/man-made/episodes/bridge/\" target=\"_blank\">Break It Down: Bridge\u003c/a>.\" The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Old-Carquinez-Bridge-is-disappearing-slowly-2499055.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle described the process\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>People with cameras and binoculars showed up to observe as crews took apart the bridge. Onlookers gathered on the hills overlooking the strait and on the Crockett waterfront beneath the three Carquinez bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because of the delicate nature of the operation, it was impossible to see any motion and difficult to see any progress unless you stuck around for a couple of hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews on Monday dislodged a 1.4 million-pound section of the bridge and began to lower it — from its position 130 feet above the strait — toward the waters below. From there, it will be placed on a barge and taken to the Mare Island shipyards nearby, where it will be ripped apart and salvaged. Parts of the old span are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and will be saved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chunk of steel was lowered 16 inches at a time. Each 16-inch drop took just 15 seconds, with four cranes working simultaneously, said Peter Strykers, senior bridge engineer for Caltrans. But it can take as long as an hour to recalibrate the cranes and get them ready for the next drop.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Golden Gate Bridge torpedo (1946):\u003c/strong> To be honest, we didn't know about this one until we started looking into Bay Area demolition history. But a United Press story in June 1946 recounts what happened after a World War II torpedo was discovered near the span:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Normal traffic resumed over and under the Golden Gate Bridge today after navy demolition experts found that a Japanese torpedo was \"practically a dud.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The torpedo was found at the foot of the bridge two days ago by an unidentified person who called police. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Cal State East Bay-Warren Hall (2013):\u003c/strong> Here's a demolition with a cause. Cal State East Bay decided to bring down a 13-story building on campus, Warren Hall. Because of the structure's proximity to the Hayward Fault, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2013/07/22/east-bay-building-demolition-to-provide-rare-earthquake-insights/\" target=\"_blank\">saw an opportunity to study seismic activity\u003c/a> in the area when the building was imploded. Here's a video of the building coming down in August 2013:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/kWnN9KGCIic\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Old Carquinez Bridge (2006): \u003c/strong>In 2003, Caltrans completed a striking new suspension bridge to carry southbound Interstate 80 traffic across the Carquinez Strait between Vallejo and Crockett. That meant the old bridge, built in 1927, could go. It was a slow-motion affair, as recounted in the National Geographic documentary, \"\u003ca href=\"http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/man-made/episodes/bridge/\" target=\"_blank\">Break It Down: Bridge\u003c/a>.\" The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Old-Carquinez-Bridge-is-disappearing-slowly-2499055.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle described the process\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>People with cameras and binoculars showed up to observe as crews took apart the bridge. Onlookers gathered on the hills overlooking the strait and on the Crockett waterfront beneath the three Carquinez bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because of the delicate nature of the operation, it was impossible to see any motion and difficult to see any progress unless you stuck around for a couple of hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews on Monday dislodged a 1.4 million-pound section of the bridge and began to lower it — from its position 130 feet above the strait — toward the waters below. From there, it will be placed on a barge and taken to the Mare Island shipyards nearby, where it will be ripped apart and salvaged. Parts of the old span are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and will be saved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chunk of steel was lowered 16 inches at a time. Each 16-inch drop took just 15 seconds, with four cranes working simultaneously, said Peter Strykers, senior bridge engineer for Caltrans. But it can take as long as an hour to recalibrate the cranes and get them ready for the next drop.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Golden Gate Bridge torpedo (1946):\u003c/strong> To be honest, we didn't know about this one until we started looking into Bay Area demolition history. But a United Press story in June 1946 recounts what happened after a World War II torpedo was discovered near the span:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Normal traffic resumed over and under the Golden Gate Bridge today after navy demolition experts found that a Japanese torpedo was \"practically a dud.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The torpedo was found at the foot of the bridge two days ago by an unidentified person who called police. Navy authorities took over and set an explosive charge on the 27-foot missile yesterday to shatter the casing and ignite the explosive inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All traffic over the mile-long bridge was halted during the demolition, but only a relatively light explosion resulted.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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