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Trucker Dies After Rig Plunges Off Bridge
Nov 9th, 2009 - AOL News
SAN FRANCISCO (Nov. 9) - A trucker died Monday after his big-rig plummeted 200 feet from a new section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge that has seen more than 42 crashes since it opened...
Big-rig plummets off San Francisco bridge
Nov 9th, 2009 - Boston
SAN FRANCISCO—A trucker is dead after his big rig plummeted 200 feet off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge early Monday and smashed onto an island below.
California Highway Patrol Sgt...Bay Bridge reopens but engineers plan daily checks
Nov 3rd, 2009 - Boston
SAN FRANCISCO—The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reopened Monday, but transportation engineers said their work may not be finished.
The heavily used span was closed Oct...California: Bay Bridge Is Open Again
Nov 2nd, 2009 - New York Times
Nearly a week of frustration ended for commuters when the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reopened after emergency repairs. Traffic began moving across the span after two rods and a crossbar were replaced and passed vibration and other tests...
Calif. Bay Bridge reopens after nearly weeklong closure
Nov 2nd, 2009 - Washington Times
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Nearly a week of frustration ended for commuters when the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reopened Monday following emergency repairs. Traffic began...
Oakland Bay Bridge videos from YouTube:
0:53Oakland bay Bridge Collapse, Great Quake of 89
More news coverage of the great San Francisco Earthquake
0:39San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Closed
Authorities closed the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Tuesday after a cable snapped on the upper deck of the span during the evening commute. The bridge is expected to be closed for at least 24 hours. (Oct. 27)
4:17Driving across the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge to Daly City
Passing time in the City by the bay.
1:11New San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Flythrough
A computer simulation showing the new Bay Bridge now under construction
Oakland Bay Bridge from WikiPedia:
The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge (legally The James "Sunny Jim" Rolph Bridge and known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a complex of toll bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, in the United States. Forming part of Interstate 80 and of the direct road route between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries approximately 270,000 vehicles per day on its two decks. It has one of the longest spans in the world.
The bridge was conceived as early as the gold rush days, but construction did not begin until 1933. Designed by Charles H. Purcell, and built by American Bridge Company, it opened for traffic on November 12, 1936, six months before the Golden Gate Bridge. It originally carried automobile traffic on its upper deck, and trucks and trains on the lower, but after the closure of the Key System, the lower deck was converted to road traffic as well.
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