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That wasn't supposed to happen, and Caltrans has blamed contractors for improperly sealing the rods and leaving them unprotected. The agency is also still investigating the source of the water. It's possible that water from San Francisco Bay -- that would be extra-corrosive salt water -- is infiltrating the foundation and getting to the rods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans has seen something like this on the bridge before. In early 2013, a set of steel rods identical to those in the tower foundation snapped when they were tensioned. Those rods were found to have been exposed to water for a long time and to have undergone chemical changes that made them brittle. Faced with a similar situation -- steel plus water plus tension -- Caltrans ordered its brutal-sounding pull test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before we get to the results, just a little bit more context on these rods and where they fit into the bridge's design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 424 of them installed in the foundation of the eastern span's gleaming white 525-foot tower. The rods themselves are immense: about 26 feet long and threaded on each end, like bolts, and fitted with large nuts. Some 388 of the rods are 3 inches in diameter, and the remaining 36 are 4 inches in diameter. They're designed to prevent the tower from \"rotating\" -- tipping over, in layperson's language -- in the event of a major earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/baybridgerods.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10542370\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/baybridgerods-400x568.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Bridge Rods\" width=\"400\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/baybridgerods-400x568.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/baybridgerods-800x1135.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/baybridgerods-1440x2044.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/baybridgerods-1180x1675.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/baybridgerods-960x1362.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/baybridgerods.jpg 1966w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans reported Wednesday that 14 of those anchor rods are inaccessible and can't be tested and that two others had been removed for lab analysis. The agency says it pull-tested the remaining 408 rods -- a process that reportedly cost $4 million -- and all but two appeared to be fine. That's more than 99 percent, Caltrans noted. And in case you want to be extra-impressed by what that looks like graphically, the agency produced \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/paffairs/news/pressrel/images/15pr47.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">a pie chart\u003c/a> to show that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's another way to interpret these glad tidings, and you can find it here: \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Caltrans-downplays-latest-Bay-Bridge-rod-failure-6290453.php\" target=\"_blank\">Caltrans downplays latest Bay Bridge rod failure\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the San Francisco Chronicle's Michael Cabanatuan notes in that story, two of the 408 rods that could be tested did \u003cem>not\u003c/em> pass the test and are believed to have cracked or broken. And despite Caltrans assurances to the contrary -- Cabanatuan quotes Dan McElhinney, the agency official who now oversees the eastern span project, as saying the bridge looks \"terrific\" -- those two rods do raise questions about how much baby-sitting the bridge will need in the decades to come to make sure it's structurally sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans acknowledges that and says it will study the broken steel to find out why it failed. 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And they're only talking about chlorides. It's not that simple. You have to think about chlorides and bromides. You have to think about other telltale signature chemical elements. For example, we actually found fluoride in this water. Well, you don't find fluoride in the Pacific Ocean.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maroney said that a team from a materials specialist company has been called in to ensure \"a thorough sampling program\" and analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maroney did acknowledge that there are some areas where water can enter the bridge, but said that is not surprising, given that the project is being completed in stages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\"You have to remember, construction's not done,\" said Maroney. \"We're still working on this structure, on both sides.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point during the \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> show, host Michael Krasny asked all three guests just how safe the bridge is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you have to be on a bridge in an earthquake, this is the bridge you want to be on,' said Maroney, citing his experience retrofitting structures throughout California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the bridge is perfectly safe for everyday use,\" said Heminger. \"And I would trust Brian Maroney with my life, and I think all the rest of us should do the same. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/Bay-bridge-640.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-107955\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/Bay-bridge-640.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Bridge's new eastern span, left, with older span, right. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Bridge's new eastern span, left, with older span, right. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ready for the latest plot twists in the long-running Bay Bridge Eastern Span Steel-Rod Saga? Here they are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Twist 1:\u003c/strong> Potentially bad news: Bridge officials and engineers on Tuesday reported new details of recently disclosed problems with the massive bolts that anchor the eastern span's tower. As the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Corrosion-feared-as-water-leaks-into-Bay-5781911.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle's Jaxon Van Derbeken reported last week\u003c/a>, engineers have discovered that virtually all of the 420-some 26-foot-long rods at the base of the tower have been sitting in water. That's a problem because steel rods under high tension and immersed in water might be prone to corrosion and even failure. Speaking as non-engineers but regular bridge users, we're guessing you don't want your 525-foot suspension tower anchored by steel that might snap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"K2yGJdYKYyUWzrp2XDGEo6AIxo5Got9G\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Twist 2:\u003c/strong> Good news: the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's \u003ca href=\"http://files.mtc.ca.gov/pdf/TBPOC_Packet_30Sep14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee\u003c/a> also reported Tuesday that inspection and testing of about 2,000 other major rods and bolts on the bridge shows they're in good shape. The condition of the rods became a concern in March 2013 when a batch of them installed in a seismic stability structure snapped after being tightened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'll get to that, but first, let's return to that first plot twist -- about the big rods at the tower base. Bridge officials say that the 424 rods, which vary from 3 to 4 inches in diameter, have been exposed to water that either infiltrated from the bay somehow or came from rain. The source is under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why were they exposed? Because, in many cases, protective grouting was incomplete or missing. Here's how \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Nearly-all-Bay-Bridge-tower-rods-sitting-in-water-5792535.php\" target=\"_blank\">the Chronicle describes the situation\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Caltrans resident engineer Bill Casey said crews had found water on 95 percent of the rods at the base of the tower, in most cases “1 or 2 inches” deep in pockets between grout that surrounds the rods in their sleeves and caulk caps intended to keep the sleeves dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, 17 rods were not properly filled with grout, including one that had only a foot of the protective material in the 15-foot sleeve, Casey said. Those rods were stewing in several gallons of water. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... The rods were installed by Kiewit Construction, which had the fabrication contract for the 525-foot-tall tower foundation. They were put in place before the structure was added beginning in 2010.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Brian Maroney, the chief Caltrans engineer on the project, said the caulking may have failed when the rods at the tower base were tightened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their presentations Tuesday, engineers said steps are being taken to make sure the rods at the tower base are properly protected to prevent further corrosion. And they said that they don't believe the rods at the tower base are subject to snapping the way those in the seismic structure did last year. That's because even though both sets of rods apparently experienced long-term exposure to water, the tower rods are not under the same high tension that led the seismic rods to become brittle and break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that leads us back to Twist 2 in our story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maroney presented \u003ca href=\"http://baybridgeinfo.org/sites/default/files/pdf/SFOBB-SAS%20Evaluation%20of%20the%20A354BD%20Rods%20Final%20Report.pdf\">a 187-page report\u003c/a> on an intensive testing and inspection program for all the 2,000-plus rods and bolts on the bridge that are made of the same kind of steel that failed in the eastern span's seismic structure. The verdict: The rest of the rods in the bridge appear to be in good shape and show no evidence of the kind of embrittlement that led the seismic steel to snap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To me one of the overwhelming lessons of this whole episode is that we should have been doing some sort of testing before we put these rods on the bridge, not after we installed them. We've been playing catch-up ever since,\" said Steve Heminger, executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and head of the toll bridge oversight panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heminger has remained steadfastly upbeat as one problem after another has emerged in the new span's construction. The issues include the project's massive cost overruns -- it has cost about $6.5 billion, several times the original price tag -- questions about the quality of concrete used in bridge foundation, the discovery of water invading steel tendons that support the bridge's skyway structure, the discovery of water in structural supports in the suspension span, questions about the soundness of welding on sections of the bridge deck and allegations that Caltrans has mismanaged the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday, it sounded like Heminger's had enough bad news. \"I am a problem-solver,\" the Chron quotes him as saying about the new disclosures about the tower rods. \"This is another problem — I certainly wish we would stop finding problems to solve.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, is chairman of the state Senate Transportation and Housing Committee, which has been investigating the Bay Bridge construction problems. 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(Report embedded below: \"\u003ca href=\"#baybridgereport\">San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge: Basic Reforms for the Future\u003c/a>.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even the most aggrieved critics involved in the construction say they have confidence in the integrity of the structure,\" the report said, though many believe \"the officially estimated 150-year lifespan is exaggerated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is the finding of this investigation that those involved in overseeing the project have attempted to keep many serious allegations quiet, rather than dealing with them in an open, businesslike manner,\" the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the serious criticisms of the project were revealed by the news media rather than by government agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty called the report flawed and said it failed to incorporate many of the corrections his agency pointed out after a draft was discussed at a hearing in January. 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Dougherty said that while he was not present for many of the verbal conversations referenced in the report, in his 24 years at the agency, \"I have never run into this non-documentation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would hope that I'd be able to say that it's not the culture of the agency,\" he said, adding that officials have specific requirements about daily reports and how to document them. \"There should not be any direction not to document any issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also affirms reporting by the Sacramento Bee that Caltrans knowingly accepted potentially hazardous work by a Chinese firm that welded most of the new roadway and tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous inspectors, both private contractors and Caltrans employees, said they raised red flags about cracked welds on deck panels. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is the finding of this investigation that those involved in overseeing the project have attempted to keep many serious allegations quiet, rather than dealing with them in an open, businesslike manner,\" the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the serious criticisms of the project were revealed by the news media rather than by government agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty called the report flawed and said it failed to incorporate many of the corrections his agency pointed out after a draft was discussed at a hearing in January. (Embedded below: \u003ca href=\"#caltransresponse\">Official Caltrans response to Bay Bridge report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This report rehashes issues that have been investigated, reviewed and in many cases resolved,\" Dougherty said in a written statement. \"Any concerns about welds, anchor rods, tendons, leaks, and foundation testing have been investigated, in many cases by outside experts, and resolved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report came the same day a separate review by an independent panel of engineers found the engineering and design work met safety standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dougherty acknowledged that the process was too secretive, partly because the legislation that created the toll bridge oversight committee for the bridge exempted it from California's open meetings law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In retrospect, that was a mistake, Dougherty said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new state Senate report says there was an unspoken directive not to document problems in writing. Dougherty said that while he was not present for many of the verbal conversations referenced in the report, in his 24 years at the agency, \"I have never run into this non-documentation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would hope that I'd be able to say that it's not the culture of the agency,\" he said, adding that officials have specific requirements about daily reports and how to document them. \"There should not be any direction not to document any issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also affirms reporting by the Sacramento Bee that Caltrans knowingly accepted potentially hazardous work by a Chinese firm that welded most of the new roadway and tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous inspectors, both private contractors and Caltrans employees, said they raised red flags about cracked welds on deck panels. A mandatory state audit found the Shanghai company was inexperienced and its employees were not well trained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One contractor assigned to inspect the panels said he was admonished by senior Caltrans officials for being \"too rigorous.\" His firm's contract was not renewed when it expired in 2008. The report concluded it was one of numerous instances in which people and companies were punished for pointing out problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, which will be discussed at a hearing next Tuesday of the Transportation and Housing Committee, also found:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Objections that would further delay the project were rejected.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The state has spent $13 million on a database system designed to track bridge welding and address an outdated record-keeping system, but the system is still not available after seven years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Some engineers were told to send critical emails without a subject line so they would be harder to retrieve in a public records request.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"baybridgereport\">\u003c/a>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_91788\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/235623599/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"caltransresponse\">\u003c/a>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_33703\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/235625117/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/Bay-bridge-640.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-107955\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/Bay-bridge-640.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Bridge's new eastern span before it opened on Labor Day 2013. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Bridge's new eastern span before it opened on Labor Day 2013. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge has been open nearly 11 months now. But the controversy over construction problems and cost overruns on the structure, which has been building for years, shows no sign of abating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest sign: State Sen. Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord) called, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/26/6584786/state-senator-calls-for-criminal.html\" target=\"_blank\">via a story in the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> over the weekend, for a criminal investigation into the construction issues. DeSaulnier says a report that his Senate Transportation and Housing Committee will release this week shows that Caltrans knowingly accepted substandard work at public expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new report, which follows \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/23/state-senate-report-on-bay-bridge-construction\" target=\"_blank\">a draft released in January\u003c/a>, will be the subject of a Sacramento hearing next week. DeSaulnier told the Bee's Charles Piller, who has produced a long series of investigative stories on the woes that have attended the bridge's construction, that some of the testimony expected is \"quite disturbing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier, \u003ca href=\"http://sd07.senate.ca.gov/biography\" target=\"_blank\">in his second term in the state Senate\u003c/a>, is running to replace retiring Rep. George Miller (D-Martinez) in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just to review, here are some of the problems tied to the bridge's construction: political battles over the bridge's design; the failure of massive steel rods designed to anchor the span's seismic stability devices; questions about the soundness of steel used in more than 2,000 other steel rods and bolts; leaks in the bridge's skyway structure that exposed crucial steel tendons to moisture and corrosion; leaks in the suspension span that could corrode structural steel; cracked welds in sections of road deck; and steel particles in the suspension tower's gleaming white finish that are causing it to yellow prematurely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The price tag for all that (and, yes, a functional bridge): $6.5 billion and counting (the San Francisco Chronicle's Phil Matier and Andrew Ross \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/The-high-toll-of-needed-testing-on-Bay-Bridge-5650513.php\" target=\"_blank\">report today on the mounting bill\u003c/a> for testing the steel rods and bolts).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/160730385&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Piller's weekend story for the Bee, DeSaulnier said he wants independent authorities — experts who haven't been affiliated with the span's construction — to conduct a \"comprehensive review\" of the structure's defects. He also said he'd like the Federal Highway Administration to review Caltrans' handling of the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty told Piller he'd welcome further oversight, adding that he looks forward to next week's Senate hearing “as an opportunity to talk about why our confidence is so high” in the safety of the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piller's story continues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Steve Heminger, executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and chairman of the oversight committee for Bay Bridge construction, recently said that some independent experts have “let perfect be the enemy of the good.” He and Caltrans say that the bridge is solid and will last 150 years. He declined to be interviewed for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of delays and $5 billion in costs beyond the initial estimate, DeSaulnier said, neither he nor the public can passively accept such reassurances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know what we got for that – how much it will cost to maintain the bridge and what will happen when there’s another (major earthquake),” he said. “That’s three strikes to me. It’s a long way from perfection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier said officials have shown “indifference at the best, and at the worst, disdain, for the people who pay for the bridge” via taxes, and tolls that have risen sixfold since 1997.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The price tag for all that (and, yes, a functional bridge): $6.5 billion and counting (the San Francisco Chronicle's Phil Matier and Andrew Ross \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/The-high-toll-of-needed-testing-on-Bay-Bridge-5650513.php\" target=\"_blank\">report today on the mounting bill\u003c/a> for testing the steel rods and bolts).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/160730385&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Piller's weekend story for the Bee, DeSaulnier said he wants independent authorities — experts who haven't been affiliated with the span's construction — to conduct a \"comprehensive review\" of the structure's defects. He also said he'd like the Federal Highway Administration to review Caltrans' handling of the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty told Piller he'd welcome further oversight, adding that he looks forward to next week's Senate hearing “as an opportunity to talk about why our confidence is so high” in the safety of the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piller's story continues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Steve Heminger, executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and chairman of the oversight committee for Bay Bridge construction, recently said that some independent experts have “let perfect be the enemy of the good.” He and Caltrans say that the bridge is solid and will last 150 years. He declined to be interviewed for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of delays and $5 billion in costs beyond the initial estimate, DeSaulnier said, neither he nor the public can passively accept such reassurances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know what we got for that – how much it will cost to maintain the bridge and what will happen when there’s another (major earthquake),” he said. “That’s three strikes to me. It’s a long way from perfection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier said officials have shown “indifference at the best, and at the worst, disdain, for the people who pay for the bridge” via taxes, and tolls that have risen sixfold since 1997.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">[vimeo 98598350 w=640 h=360]\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>[ad fullwidth]\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. 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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. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/baybridge-640ab.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-126963\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/baybridge-640ab.jpg\" alt=\"The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge shortly after it opened last September. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge shortly after it opened last September. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) \u003ccite>( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has gone four weeks without a disclosure of problems on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge. The San Francisco Chronicle's Jaxon Van Derbeken is among those ending the revelation drought with \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/New-Bay-Bridge-defect-could-be-trouble-in-5482092.php\" target=\"_blank\">a story on a potentially major problem\u003c/a> with rods that anchor the spans's main cable. (The Sacramento Bee's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/05/15/6408924/bay-bridge-rods-helping-hold-main.html\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Piller reported on the issue\u003c/a> on Thursday.) Here's the top of Van Derbeken's piece:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Steel rods that anchor the Bay Bridge eastern span's massive main cable have shifted since they were installed and are now perilously close to sharp-edged plates inside the belly of the new bridge, a problem Caltrans acknowledges could take months and millions of dollars to fix. Caltrans engineers say more than 200 high-strength rods could be jerked in a major earthquake into those sharp edges, risking damage to the main cable and possibly threatening the bridge's stability. \"We need to do whatever we need to do so this does not happen,\" Brian Maroney, Caltrans' chief engineer on the bridge, said Thursday.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Let's step back from the bad news for a second and say: That new span sure is beautiful. And it gives you the perfect vantage point to watch crews dismantle the old eastern span, which except for \u003ca href=\"http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1989/\" target=\"_blank\">17 horrifying seconds in 1989\u003c/a>, spared its hundreds of thousands of daily users much drama. The new span, by contrast, is full of suspense. Even before it opened, it was delivering surprises: The massive rods designed to anchor seismic-stability devices cracked, leading to months of questions about the steel used in the bridge and a scramble to find a fix. Some of the steel tendons designed to strengthen the bridge's long concrete skyway were found to be inadequately protected from the weather. After the bridge opened in September, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Caltrans-kept-Bay-Bridge-leaks-from-local-5246065.php\" target=\"_blank\">engineers discovered\u003c/a> that supposedly watertight support structures beneath the suspension span's road deck were leaking, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/18/even-more-bay-bridge-problems/\" target=\"_blank\">posing a serious corrosion threat\u003c/a>. And now, issues with the rods anchoring the cables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It used to be that when I saw work crews on the bridge, I'd think, \"You know, Caltrans does a great job keeping up with the maintenance on this fine old bridge.\" When I see workers on the new span these days, I wonder, \"What's wrong now?\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/New-Bay-Bridge-defect-could-be-trouble-in-5482092.php\" target=\"_blank\">In his story,\u003c/a> Van Derbeken says the steel rods anchoring the cable have shifted because of a seemingly innocuous decision made during construction: to enlarge a single cable-anchor hole. Caltrans engineers and local transportation officials are optimistic they'll be able to deal with the problem fairly quickly, although the Bee's Piller quotes one expert as saying that making the fixes could be very challenging. Van Derbeken's piece ends on a disquieting note:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Bob Bea, an emeritus professor of civil engineering at UC Berkeley and risk analysis expert, said the latest snafu was a \"predictable surprise\" because of the builder's decision to make one hole bigger than the others. \"It's something that you could have predicted if you thought more about it, but you didn't think deeply about it,\" he said. \"It's easy for these damn details to sneak through the design process - that's what seems to be going on here. I wonder what other things are lurking in the darkness.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bay Bridge authorities gave an update Tuesday on several issues with the new eastern span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite problems continually arising with the $6.4 billion structure, the \u003ca href=\"http://baybridgeinfo.org/tbpoc/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee\u003c/a>‘s overall message is that the bridge is safe and strong enough to withstand a major earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Minor misalignment’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent news is centering on steel sections supporting the bridge’s roadbed that didn’t quite fit together when they were installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Chronicle reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken found Caltrans approved non-standard welds to fit the steel plates together. The structure’s lead designer, Marwan Nader, warned the larger welds could be vulnerable in an earthquake, but he clarified that the joints would likely suffer only minor damage that would leave the bridge intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was built into the bridge,” Van Derbeken told KQED’s Ted Goldberg. “They had a choice to either accept this — and it was clearly in violation of Caltrans’ own rules and the bridge welding code.” Van Derbeken said independent engineers told him, “It’s not a good idea to create these kinds of stresses on these welds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee spokesman Andrew Gordon said a seismic safety panel went over the misaligned plate problem in 2010 and determined the ill-fitting plates were acceptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bridge is safe. This issue of minor misalignment, at only 10 of those 26 connections, and of that, only about 7 percent of those connections, is not an issue for the structure, for seismic performance, or for the 150-year life span,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon cited a November 2010 report recently published on the oversight committee’s website that found, due to compression from the bridge’s “self-anchored” suspension design, that the larger welds were acceptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Derbeken talked to several engineering experts who disagree, however, including UC Berkeley professor emeritus in civil engineering Bob Bea, quoted below in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Bridge-designer-warned-Caltrans-in-2010-of-5264109.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chronicle\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>To allow the welded connections, the lead contractor, American Bridge/Fluor Enterprises, needed Caltrans to exempt it from the agency’s own standards and the American Welding Society’s code for bridges. Both specify that the vertical gap between two pieces of steel on a bridge can be no more than an eighth of an inch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the Bay Bridge joints on the steel sections were off by as much as three times the acceptable level. But American Bridge/Fluor Enterprises was facing pressure to finish the long-delayed eastern span, as was Caltrans. In early 2011, the agency agreed to the nonstandard connections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of that decision, the bridge decks have several connections that have extra stress on them, which could lead to significant damage to the road deck in an earthquake, some experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Bob) Bea, the professor emeritus at Berkeley, likened an extended welded connection to a dent in an aluminum can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think of a beer can between two large hands, if you have a small dent in the beer can, it will collapse very easily,” Bea said. “It’s how we impress a lady in a bar – but it’s no way to build a bridge.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bea is among the experts expected to attend a technical workshop hosted by the oversight committee on Wednesday, Feb. 26, beginning at 1 p.m. The gathering will be held at 311 Burma Road in Oakland, and it will focus on another issue with the new bridge that’s been a concern since last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Broken bolts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Caltrans technical team will update the public about ongoing testing on the 2,600 bolts that are similar to 32 that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/24/bay-bridge-bolts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">snapped\u003c/a> last year after they were tightened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those bolts were determined to be from a bad batch, weakened by “hydrogen embrittlement due to a lack of uniformity in the microstructure of the steel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A permanent fix for those bolts — a saddle system with steel cables — was installed in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridge engineers have been soaking test bolts — some from the bridge and some extras — in salt water for days, then stressing them until the break. Gordon says they are all performing well above the level of stress they’re under on the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing very significant differences between all the other rods on the bridge that we’ve been testing and that initial batch that broke,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much difference is disputed. Recent tests found the bolts to be far stronger than the first round of testing did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water in the spine\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heavy rain this month exposed a separate issue — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/19/bay-bridge-leaks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leaks\u003c/a> into the roadbed’s steel spine. 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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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He told Caltrans officials they were taking a \"great risk\" in allowing ZPMC to do the work, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the contract with ZPMC called for no cracks at all, so Merrill's firm MacTec Engineering rejected the pieces, leading to severe delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merrill said Caltrans was concerned about the delays, and that he was told he was being \"too rigorous\" in his inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans failed to renew MacTec's contract after the disagreement over ZPMC's work and hired another firm, Alta Vista Solutions, that turned out not to be qualified for the job, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridge spokesman Andrew Gordon said officials would address the report's findings at a meeting on Friday before the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also found that Caltrans forced another of its supervising bridge engineers off the job after supervising work on the welds being made in China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chinese were not catching stuff,\" former Caltrans bridge engineer Douglas Coe, a 25-year department veteran, told the report's authors. \"Why are we finding all these cracks?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coe said he felt pressure from bridge managers Tony Anziano and Peter Siegenthaler not to stop work, and that eventually he argued that Caltrans should change the language in the contract — which permitted no cracks in the welds — if managers were going to order them through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans eventually changed that language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the first time in my career the engineering wasn't allowed to be done right,\" Coe told investigators. \"I'm mad as hell that the Department (Caltrans) put me in a position to have to say this. ... But if that bridge starts to crack in five years it's all going come out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans' Anziano and Siegenthaler told the investigators that the weld cracks in question were repairable and have been mostly fixed. 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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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