New Bay Bridge design debuts after years of strife Years of debate over, design ready for dramatic debut By John King , Urban Design Critic Updated Sep 1, 2013 10:38 p.m.

This rendering by Nicole Lew shows her design to renovate the east span of the Bay Bridge as a park with housing on the lower deck. From a graduate studio held in the fall of 2009 at UC Berkeley's ...

The austere bridge design comes after years of debate over the project’s spiraling cost -- from $1.3 billion to $5 billion -- and over how much of that cost Bay Area commuters should shoulder.

The eastern span on the Bay Bridge was built to become an icon and few organizations in the Bay Area recognized that potential quite like the Golden State Warriors. In 2008, on the heels of the We ...

A Bay Area bridge with a notorious bottleneck is about to drastically improve as a transit agency begins work on readjusting its westbound approach and removing antiquated toll booths. After the ...

Flush with wealth from the dot-com bubble, the state and Bay Area leaders mandated the new bridge be “iconic” in its design. The costs — and potential benefits to the winning bidders ...

With Caltrans expected to announce in the coming days that the estimated cost of rebuilding the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has doubled to $5 billion, a battle is brewing between Southern ...

The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake killed 63 people as it pancaked double-deck roadways in the Bay Area, ... viewed the failure to verify as far less troubling than the basic design of the Bay Bridge ...

Tony Anziano, Caltrans toll bridge program manager, talks about the anchor rod problem at the shear keys on the new Bay Bridge Friday afternoon May 3, 2013. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) ...

Transportation officials are narrowing the final designs for a bike and pedestrian path on the western span of the Bay Bridge, something bike advocates have been dreaming about for decades.. But it ...

Back in the Bay Area, Caltrans issued a similar statement to what the Golden Gate Bridge Authority released, saying bridge safety is a high priority. Baltimore Key Bridge Collapse Mar 26, 2024 ...

Open Road Tolling is coming to all seven of the Bay Area's state-owned toll bridges. This means the existing toll booths will have to be removed from these bridges. Up first is the Richmond - San ...