The New Bay Bridge

firedancing4lifefiredancing4life Registered Users Posts: 550 Major grins
edited May 23, 2006 in Landscapes
I was able to go on a tour this last Friday through ASCE. We boated out to the new span and climbed some serious scaffolding. It was raining on and off so I didn't use my SLR the whole time and had to resort to my P&S.

More at my gallery. Enjoy.

Port of Oakland - "Star Wars Cranes"
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New and Old
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The climb
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Kevin
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  • NimaiNimai Registered Users Posts: 564 Major grins
    edited May 21, 2006
    That's cool!
    I didn't even know there was a "new Bay Bridge" in the works. I can only imagine the orders of magnitude increase in cost from old to new. Nice snaps!
    Thanks.
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  • W.W. WebsterW.W. Webster Registered Users Posts: 3,204 Major grins
    edited May 21, 2006
    firedancing4life wrote:
    New and Old

    70484414-L-2.jpg
    This is a great shot. Could it be the first of a series of images from the same location over the period that the new bridge is under construction? The result might be a very interesting, and perhaps unique, time lapse sequence as the new bridge continues to travel towards, and then across, the camera point.
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited May 21, 2006
    Agreed, that second pic is special.
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  • firedancing4lifefiredancing4life Registered Users Posts: 550 Major grins
    edited May 22, 2006
    W.W. Webster wrote:
    This is a great shot. Could it be the first of a series of images from the same location over the period that the new bridge is under construction? The result might be a very interesting, and perhaps unique, time lapse sequence as the new bridge continues to travel towards, and then across, the camera point.
    wxwax wrote:
    Agreed, that second pic is special.

    Thanks for the comments.

    The tour was taken through Caltrans which was organized through ASCE a professional organization, so I probably couldn't just go out there every day and take the picture. The other things is....I was on the boat when I took it.rolleyes1.gif Right behind me is Yerba Buena Island...the island the bridge goes through before it reaches San Francisco...I imagine there is an area or road over there where I could get a similar shot using some zoom. Given I'm about 30 minutes away...without lovely Bay Area traffic...I don't know how often I'll be able to get out there, but you guys have given me some great ideas...I might try and follow through with.
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  • inuincinuinc Registered Users Posts: 2 Beginner grinner
    edited May 22, 2006
    My first post. Just wanted to say great pics. Even though I'm in San Diego, we usually hear of all the happenings in CA. This is a first for me hearing of the new bridge. Must be living under a rock.
  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited May 22, 2006
    Well, I guess it's the "new" bay bridge
    I just sort of think of it as a replacement span :):

    Like the San Mateo/Hayward bridge span...

    I thought they decided on the new bridge that's supposed to go between the Bay and San Mateo bridge?????

    But anyway, I like that same photo the others do that you took from the boat!

    I don't live that far away, but it would take me 45 minutes or more in traffic to get out to treasure island to watch the progress.

    So, I enjoyed seeing the progress. You were lucky you got to go on the tour!
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  • firedancing4lifefiredancing4life Registered Users Posts: 550 Major grins
    edited May 22, 2006
    Dee wrote:
    I just sort of think of it as a replacement span :):

    Like the San Mateo/Hayward bridge span...

    I thought they decided on the new bridge that's supposed to go between the Bay and San Mateo bridge?????

    But anyway, I like that same photo the others do that you took from the boat!

    I don't live that far away, but it would take me 45 minutes or more in traffic to get out to treasure island to watch the progress.

    So, I enjoyed seeing the progress. You were lucky you got to go on the tour!

    My pics are of the skyway. The next part is the suspension...and after that there will be a temporary span that will help by pass the existing traffic. It's going to be tricky... I don't think they have it totally figured out yet...but the obvious goal is to have no stopage time.

    <img src="http://newbaybridge.org/media/opt1lg.gif"&gt;

    http://www.newbaybridge.org/the_projects/

    They have a cool gallery too.
    Kevin
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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited May 23, 2006
    Thank you for the link
    firedancing4life wrote:
    My pics are of the skyway. The next part is the suspension...and after that there will be a temporary span that will help by pass the existing traffic. It's going to be tricky... I don't think they have it totally figured out yet...but the obvious goal is to have no stopage time.

    <img src="http://newbaybridge.org/media/opt1lg.gif"&gt;

    http://www.newbaybridge.org/the_projects/

    They have a cool gallery too.

    I'll check that out tomorrow... I'm bookmarking it for now. I'm actually following the Devil's Slide Tunnel project cause it's right near my house...
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