SPUR Forum: The Bay Bridge Renewed
From SPUR:
12:49 PM PDT on August 19, 2013
From SPUR:
Image courtesy Flickr user christiano valli
Opening soon, the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will make the bridge resilient and usable far into the future. The project, however, has journeyed from a $250 million retrofit to a $6.5 billion colossal icon. How did this happen — and how does it compare with the history of building the original bridge?
+ Karen Frick, University of California Berkeley
+ Anthony Bruzzone, Arup
Aaron was the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco from January 2012 until October 2015. He joined Streetsblog in 2010 after studying rhetoric and political communication at SF State University and spending a semester in Denmark.
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