It's been five years now since I blogged about the Bay Bridge, which was being rebuilt in the wake of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. (I was in San Francisco when that happened. A slab of the roadway collapsed. Lives were lost. The bridge was patched together and re-opened, but everyone wanted a new one ( Read more... )

Some time ago, I'd posted about San Francisco's Bay Bridge. One half of it is being rebuilt and I had a chance to fly over it and get some photographs. (If you don't want to bother with the link, here's the relevant photograph - it's rotated so you can see the bend more clearly.)


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San Francisco is re-building its Bay Bridge. Work on the east span is under way. I flew over it yesterday.

This thing is going to be gorgeous, a graceful curve of concrete from Yerba Buena island to Oakland.
In this first picture, you can see how it's going to align when it's all done.


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