SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) -- The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was closed Wednesday as preparations get underway to open the new, $6.4 billion eastern span. After a long line of commuters took ...

former Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and the late San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. The demolition of the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge began in 2013. It which originally opened in November 1936.

The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge is scheduled to open early Sept ... But a group of East Bay mayors, including Jerry Brown, Oakland's then mayor-elect, did not prevail in efforts to have ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) -- The new, $6.4 billion eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is open to traffic after years of delays and cost overruns. After the California Highway Patrol ...

After all the years of political wrangling, financial problems and construction troubles, the new $6.3 billion eastern span of the Bay ... bridge has to be razed to make way for Oakland-bound ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KTVU) - In the aftermath of the Loma Prieta earthquake, the eastern span of the Bay Bridge, was designed to be seismically strong enough to withstand the largest potential ...

Crews demolishing the old eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay have hit a milestone ... as crews remove more bridge pieces. The old span was replaced by a new, $6.4 billion self-anchoring ...

Members of the media tour the old east span of the Bay Bridge as demolition work continues in San Francisco, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2014. Dismantling of the 1936 east span is being done by hand ...

SAN FRANCISCO – The troubled new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will not open over Labor Day weekend as planned, the California Transportation Commission announced Monday.

SAN FRANCISCOSAN FRANCISCO — The new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is set to open on or just after Labor Day 2013. The California Department of Transportation announced ...