Politics & Government

Bay Bridge Reopens!

After being closed five days, the Bay Bridge reopened tonight, Monday, with traffic flowing by shortly after 10 p.m., hours ahead of schedule.

Editor's note: Traffic was moving on the Bay Bridge again shortly after 10 p.m. tonight, Monday, according to updates from Bay City News Service and KCBS. Bridge officials said earlier this evening that the span would open earlier than expected, between 9 and 10.

By Dan McMenamin, Bay City News Service


The Bay Bridge will be opening tonight, hours earlier than scheduled, transit officials announced this afternoon.

The bridge has been closed since last Wednesday while construction crews finalize work on the new eastern span connecting Oakland to Yerba Buena Island.

The bridge was scheduled to be reopened by 5 a.m. Tuesday but the work was finished faster than anticipated and it will open at some point tonight, Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty said.

He did not specify exactly what time the bridge is expected to reopen.

Dougherty made the announcement at a celebration held in Oakland this afternoon for the new span, a self-anchored suspension bridge that is replacing an old cantilever bridge that opened more than 75 years ago. 

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