Before december 10th. A wild card in is another support ongs caltrans is still recrewing but the shims are being made, and could see the shims allowing the bridge to open earlier than december without saddle work being done. Stay tuned as the Toll Authority told us last week, as far as opening date goes, everything is wide open, anything is possible. Do expect shorter advance notice than hoped. Just four days left to reach a deal between bart and unions. Negotiations underway right now but if a contract knlt be hammered out workers could strike again as soon as monday. This morning a spokesperson says management was ready to burn midnight oil, excuse me, sorry. Two unions involved in these negotiations also said the same and it really depends on the mediator and whether or not he thinks progress is being made. They have not come out this morning so we have yet to get updates on the progress f any of the negotiations. The Budget Committee was spending bart of the morning and afternoon e
The bay bridge. The opening is delayed but caltrans hoping to patch work its solution to the broken problem that will do the trick. Good evening, everyone. And im dan ashley. Caltrans insisted this fix will make it as solid and safe as the initial design. Were live with the story. Heather inside of that 35,000 square foot shop, steel saddles are being made to help reenforce broken bolts on the new bay bridge this, model shows the saddles in purple, on top of the concrete. The saddles made of layers of threeinch steel plates arriving flat. Theyre rolled, molded and cooked at 1200 degrees for 30 hours, cooled then grooves cut into them with different machines and that is where cables will thread through and then, wrap around the concrete encasing bad bolts. Work began here about three weeks ago. There are 12 in all that have to be fabricated, then, layered with other pieces in this multi step process. Original date has been delayed from Labor Day Weekend to not before december 10th. A wi