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Big snow blowers sent plumes arcing through the air and off the side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air is clean and views are stunning, but working here is not for the faint of heart as drivers maneuver large machines along narrow ribbons that appear to be suspended above an abyss. Helicopter footage shot this spring for Caltrans showed the small margin for error in places where the road clings to cliffs and then vanishes under a white blanket where the path is obscured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/crECtMJQ3OA\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's spooky, it's nerve-wracking ... especially when you can't see the road. You're on a big sled,\" said Clint Weier, a maintenance superintendent with Caltrans. \"Some of our operators up here have had some wow factors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avalanches stampede down granite walls, taking trees and rocks with them. In one section of the highway, tree trunks and branches protrude from the snow, evidence of a previous snowslide. 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"content": "\u003cp>A Big Sur mountainside that had been on the move for most of the winter gave way over the weekend in a landslide that locals say is the biggest along the scenic stretch of coast in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slide occurred at Mud Creek, just south of the community of Gorda and 25 miles up Highway 1 from San Simeon. The episode is the latest in a series of highway-closing slope collapses triggered by the extraordinarily wet winter along the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1417390841810291%2Fvideos%2F1909412799274757%2F&show_text=0&width=560\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before this weekend, the most disruptive of those incidents involved a mudslide that knocked out a bridge \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/search/Big+Sur+Station,+California+1,+Big+Sur,+CA/@36.2420595,-121.7834305,15z/data=!3m1!4b1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">just south of Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park and just north of Big Sur Station\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/20/caltrans-highway-1-replacement-bridge-in-big-sur-ready-in-six-months/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caltrans says\u003c/a> a new bridge will be in place by the end of September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"G7tFQkMK1VShhbbKPgaVMk8ZoB0aRzp7\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area near Mud Creek, the scene of Saturday evening's massive new landslide, had been troublesome for month. Several different active slides had forced occasional road closures starting in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The highway agency says the Saturday slide buried a 1,500-foot section of Highway 1 under 35 to 40 feet of rocks and dirt. The estimated amount of material covering the road: 1 million tons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CaltransD5/status/866527862278377472\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans says that right now, it has no idea how long it will take to deal with the Mud Creek slide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Monterey Herald's Tommy Wright \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/23/massive-landslide-covers-highway-1-in-southern-big-sur/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">got some local perspective\u003c/a> on where the new slide ranks among famous Big Sur earth movements:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kirk Gafill, president of the Big Sur Chamber of Commerce and Nepenthe Restaurant’s owner and general manager, grew up in Big Sur. Gafill, 55, said the only landslide in the area he can remember that was as big as the one at Mud Creek was in 1983 just north of Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That location was closed for 14 months,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Gafill and [Caltrans spokeswoman Susana] Cruz said it would be conjecture to say how long Highway 1 will remain closed this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gafill’s grandparents founded Nepenthe. He said it can be hard to compare the scale of the two events, but the Mud Creek slide was one of the largest in his lifetime along the Big Sur coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s not the biggest, it’s certainly right up there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz said the Mud Creek slide is the biggest she can remember since joining Caltrans in 2001. She said a slide near Mud Creek at Duck Pond during the El Niño winter of 1998 caused major damage.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Mud Creek slide is not the only one currently causing trouble along the coastal highway. Further north, at a point called Paul's Slide, a massive slide has shut the road repeatedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big slides along Highway 1 have forced Caltrans contractors to stage convoys over twisting, narrow \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nacimiento-Fergusson+Rd,+Big+Sur,+CA+93920/@36.000905,-121.4609372,12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x809296a8a7f9159b:0x70441b9f4863105b!8m2!3d36.0042336!4d-121.3965642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nacimiento-Fergusson Road\u003c/a> to get construction supplies and heavy equipment to the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge site.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Caltrans says that right now, it has no idea how long it will take to deal with the Mud Creek slide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Monterey Herald's Tommy Wright \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/23/massive-landslide-covers-highway-1-in-southern-big-sur/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">got some local perspective\u003c/a> on where the new slide ranks among famous Big Sur earth movements:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kirk Gafill, president of the Big Sur Chamber of Commerce and Nepenthe Restaurant’s owner and general manager, grew up in Big Sur. Gafill, 55, said the only landslide in the area he can remember that was as big as the one at Mud Creek was in 1983 just north of Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That location was closed for 14 months,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Gafill and [Caltrans spokeswoman Susana] Cruz said it would be conjecture to say how long Highway 1 will remain closed this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gafill’s grandparents founded Nepenthe. He said it can be hard to compare the scale of the two events, but the Mud Creek slide was one of the largest in his lifetime along the Big Sur coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s not the biggest, it’s certainly right up there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz said the Mud Creek slide is the biggest she can remember since joining Caltrans in 2001. She said a slide near Mud Creek at Duck Pond during the El Niño winter of 1998 caused major damage.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Mud Creek slide is not the only one currently causing trouble along the coastal highway. Further north, at a point called Paul's Slide, a massive slide has shut the road repeatedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big slides along Highway 1 have forced Caltrans contractors to stage convoys over twisting, narrow \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nacimiento-Fergusson+Rd,+Big+Sur,+CA+93920/@36.000905,-121.4609372,12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x809296a8a7f9159b:0x70441b9f4863105b!8m2!3d36.0042336!4d-121.3965642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nacimiento-Fergusson Road\u003c/a> to get construction supplies and heavy equipment to the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge site.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]H[/dropcap]ighway 35, known to locals on the peninsula south of San Francisco as Skyline Boulevard, is one odd bird of a road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its northern end, it's a full-on freeway funneling traffic to and from San Francisco. As you go south, it takes on a different character, suburban at first, then rural, winding through the forested ridges standing high above the bay shore and Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its southern end, it climbs into the Santa Cruz Mountains. Then, before it ends its 65-mile run, it narrows to a back-country road that's a good deal less than two lanes wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, this quirky Bay Area route has another distinction: It's the site of the single most expensive road repair project arising from the already legendary Winter of '16-'17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storms that came crashing into California starting last October have dropped 100 inches of rain or more in parts of the Santa Cruz Mountains this season. At a remote spot on Highway 35 in Santa Clara County that Caltrans identifies prosaically as Post Mile 10.5, the season's precipitation total is something like 94 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/05/2017-05-08b-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25138_20170503_Highway35_Credit_BertJohnson-8-qut-800x533.jpg\" Title=\"Price Tag for State's Road-Wrecking Winter: $1.4 Billion and Counting\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rain fell so hard and so long that on Feb. 10, the slope at Post Mile 10.5 gave way, spilling earth, trees, rocks and a roughly 50-yard-long section of pavement far down a steep mountainside. The result was a monstrous gouge in the landscape and a rebuilding project that Caltrans currently says will cost $37 million. (Two smaller slides occurred Feb. 10 just south of Post Mile 10.5; Caltrans says those will take another couple of months to completely clear and will cost $5.5 million each.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3701802/Caltrans-PDA-2017WinterStorm-Ver-4-28-17.pdf\">the agency lists\u003c/a> 425 damage sites that will require an estimated $974 million to fix. Caltrans says local agencies face at least another $400 million in storm-related road repairs. The money to pay for all that will come mainly from the state and federal governments -- the latter partly due to a disaster declaration from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/jhLYaCOiK1M\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ooking at pictures of the Highway 35/Skyline Boulevard slide immediately after it happened -- see the YouTube video above -- it's a little hard to imagine just how you'd go about putting a road back through the area. From one side of the gap, you gaze across at a chasm where a piece of pavement, complete with double-yellow lines, hangs in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we -- as a state and nation dedicated to the pursuit of happy and productive motoring -- are not in the business of letting some little thing like a collapsing mountainside shut down an otherwise perfectly fine road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Exhibit A for our determination to keep the roads open even when nature's not in sync with our intentions: Highway 1 through Big Sur. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist05/projects/bigsur/inventory_reports/history_road_closures.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2001 Caltrans report\u003c/a> documented 41 closures from rockslides, mudslides, mountain slides, slipouts, washouts and flooding along that section of highway between 1970 and 2000. There have been plenty of shutdowns since then, too. The winter of 2016-17 triggered several major slides and closures on the coast road -- including one involving \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/13/highway-1-big-sur-pfeiffer-canyon-bridge-demolition/\" target=\"_blank\">a bridge failure\u003c/a> near the northern end of Big Sur. Caltrans hopes to have \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-tr-california-new-pfeiffer-canyon-bridge-20170412-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">a new span\u003c/a> ready for use by \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/28/big-sur-bridge-set-to-open-jan-1-connecting-broken-link-along-highway-1/\" target=\"_blank\">the end of September\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visiting the big Highway 35 slide site last week with Bernard Walik, the Caltrans spokesman for Santa Clara County, I got to see the outline of the agency's repair plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we've done here is created an access road,\" Walik says, describing one lane of dirt and gravel that's been bulldozed, somehow, into the curving upper rim of the slide. \"And actually, the access road we have in front of us here follows the profile of the new road -- meaning it's going to curve into the hillside.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebuilding the road will involve more than just realigning it, though. Engineers plan to build a massive retaining wall supported by piles driven deep into the mountainside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How challenging will it be to get a new piece of highway to stay where Caltrans wants it to stay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our geotechnology engineers (and) hydraulic engineers have determined that, looking at all the conditions of the current hillside, that the realignment with the support of the retaining wall will definitely provide a safe road for many, many decades,\" Walik says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While I was there, one other person showed up to watch the small construction crew, which on this day consisted of two dump truck drivers, a front-loader operator and a spotter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These guys have got a pretty good job,\" says Art Vasquez, a retired heavy-equipment operator who arrives at the site on a motorcycle. \"They've got job security. 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The money to pay for all that will come mainly from the state and federal governments -- the latter partly due to a disaster declaration from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/jhLYaCOiK1M\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">L\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ooking at pictures of the Highway 35/Skyline Boulevard slide immediately after it happened -- see the YouTube video above -- it's a little hard to imagine just how you'd go about putting a road back through the area. From one side of the gap, you gaze across at a chasm where a piece of pavement, complete with double-yellow lines, hangs in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we -- as a state and nation dedicated to the pursuit of happy and productive motoring -- are not in the business of letting some little thing like a collapsing mountainside shut down an otherwise perfectly fine road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Exhibit A for our determination to keep the roads open even when nature's not in sync with our intentions: Highway 1 through Big Sur. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist05/projects/bigsur/inventory_reports/history_road_closures.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2001 Caltrans report\u003c/a> documented 41 closures from rockslides, mudslides, mountain slides, slipouts, washouts and flooding along that section of highway between 1970 and 2000. There have been plenty of shutdowns since then, too. The winter of 2016-17 triggered several major slides and closures on the coast road -- including one involving \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/13/highway-1-big-sur-pfeiffer-canyon-bridge-demolition/\" target=\"_blank\">a bridge failure\u003c/a> near the northern end of Big Sur. Caltrans hopes to have \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-tr-california-new-pfeiffer-canyon-bridge-20170412-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">a new span\u003c/a> ready for use by \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/28/big-sur-bridge-set-to-open-jan-1-connecting-broken-link-along-highway-1/\" target=\"_blank\">the end of September\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visiting the big Highway 35 slide site last week with Bernard Walik, the Caltrans spokesman for Santa Clara County, I got to see the outline of the agency's repair plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we've done here is created an access road,\" Walik says, describing one lane of dirt and gravel that's been bulldozed, somehow, into the curving upper rim of the slide. \"And actually, the access road we have in front of us here follows the profile of the new road -- meaning it's going to curve into the hillside.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebuilding the road will involve more than just realigning it, though. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Cassidy, communications director for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, said transportation officials and cycling and pedestrian advocates consider the route exceptionally hazardous: steep, poorly paved, lacking sidewalks and an artery for traffic heading to and from the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've biked for a long time in and around San Francisco, and I'd take advocates' warnings very seriously about Hillcrest,\" Cassidy said Friday. \"We fought for these shuttles and strongly recommend you use them to access the remainder of the island.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shuttles are expected to accommodate eight to 12 passengers and be equipped with racks that can carry eight bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 4:27 p.m Thursday:\u003c/strong> It's a decision seemingly \u003ca href=\"http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/RusnEnig.html\" target=\"_blank\">wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma\u003c/a>, but officials at Caltrans may have made up their minds to open the final leg of the Bay Bridge bike and pedestrian path to Yerba Buena Island this Sunday, Oct. 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at the agency on Thursday declined to discuss the opening date, though cycling advocates and others \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/11/bay-bridge-east-span-bike-path-its-done-just-not-open-yet/\" target=\"_blank\">have been suggesting\u003c/a> the bike path would open by the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Caltrans may have let the cat out of the bag by way of \u003ca href=\"http://www.baybridgeinfo.org/sites/default/files/pdf/sfobb-bike-path-closure-calendarr4_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a bike-path calendar\u003c/a> for October and November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11138620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Screenshot-2016-10-20-15.32.39.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11138620\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Screenshot-2016-10-20-15.32.39.png\" alt=\"Bay Bridge bike path calendar for October and November. \" width=\"780\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Screenshot-2016-10-20-15.32.39.png 780w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Screenshot-2016-10-20-15.32.39-160x122.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Screenshot-2016-10-20-15.32.39-240x184.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Screenshot-2016-10-20-15.32.39-375x287.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Screenshot-2016-10-20-15.32.39-520x398.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Bridge bike path calendar for October and November.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The calendar says, in part, \"The Bay Bridge bike path will be open on the 2-mile long bridge this winter on weekends and holidays from Oakland to the YBI [Yerba Buena Island] landing from 7 a.m.-6 p.m.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday, Oct. 23, is marked as a day the path will be open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, maybe that's a scoop -- OK, a mini-scoop -- maybe it's not. But there are a couple more things to note in the little bit of information divulged on the calendar:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the path will be open only to the \"landing\" area at its Yerba Buena Island end. Officials have described the area as a busy construction zone, and it's not clear whether cyclists would be allowed to proceed down an adjacent road and on to Treasure Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, the calendar pointedly says there are \"no parking or pedestrian facilities on YBI.\" The takeaway from that: Those who want to walk the path need to park at the Oakland end and make the 2-mile-plus hike out to the island and back. (Eventually, the agencies involved in the Bay Bridge Trail project plan to set up shuttles to carry pedestrians and less experienced cyclists from the path down to Treasure Island and back. Work continues on a nearby vista point for cyclists and walkers, but that feature is not expected to open for several weeks.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third, the calendar reinforces the current rather disappointing reality for eager cyclists and walkers: The path will be closed virtually every weekday between now and Thanksgiving because of demolition work on the old eastern span. On the other hand, the path is scheduled to be open every weekend in November, with a four-day opening on Thanksgiving weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there's one other major piece of Bay Bridge work to note this weekend: On Saturday, Caltrans will open a new, improved ramp from the bridge's eastern span to Yerba Buena Island. The new ramp switches the exit from the left to the right side of the roadway.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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. 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