For Bay Bridge Rebuild Project, 21st- Century Techniques Include Safety

OAKLAND -- The Bay Area is in a spate of bridge building not seen since the Golden Gate and Bay bridges were erected within a couple of years of each other in the 1930s. Six of the bay system's eight bridges are undergoing some kind of retrofit, replacement or expansion. The eastern span of the Bay Bridge is being completely replaced and the western span strengthened, the Benicia Bridge is being upgraded, one span of the C