Brian. I cant tell you how happy im not named brian but there is not a happier person in this room. Today is a monumental day a day to look at this tremendous structure that will provide safety black or white from oakland to so far. And this is the Worlds Largest bridge this is a wonderful thing. Were opening this bridge so out last every one of us here and those who built the bridge will be able to tell their grandkids and it will survive the biggest quake. Thats why we built this bridge and thats where were opening it on this weekend for seismic safety. Today marks the completion of not only this project but the california trance retrofit program. 24 is the last of 9 bridges 7 of which are in the bay area and theyve been respected to accumulate safety. Weve yupd more than 34 hundred bridges for safety. Cancels i cant understand depend upon their bridges. The old bridge has been part of the life in the area for 7 seven years but its time for an upgrade. Every bridge has a story the ol
Caltrans hes been the heart and soul of the project. Hes been with me every step of the way and i barely got a word in. Hes explaining something about the span and i want to know how he stated excited about something for 20 years in a roadway. One thing people get wrong about brian they think the project game his gray but he went gray at an early age. Brian number 3 is my cf o person clapping hes pictured here in his everyday work attire although we only see him a couple of times a week. Brians mother to is spend other folks money first. The foreheads only kicked in 5 peace officers and the state 20 percent the rest was on the toll payers but brian got us the lowest. Brian has been at this Financial Game for a long time. And you know its coming mr. Secretary the last brian is our next speaker transportation brian. clappin clapping . Brian is a convenient of all the legislature wars figure out over this bridge having worked from bill to mr. Burton to daryl stein beggar interest to look
Bridge this is a wonderful thing. Were opening this bridge so out last every one of us here and those who built the bridge will be able to tell their grandkids and it will survive the biggest quake. Thats why we built this bridge and thats where were opening it on this weekend for seismic safety. Today marks the completion of not only this project but the california trance retrofit program. 24 is the last of 9 bridges 7 of which are in the bay area and theyve been respected to accumulate safety. Weve yupd more than 34 hundred bridges for safety. Cancels i cant understand depend upon their bridges. The old bridge has been part of the life in the area for 7 seven years but its time for an upgrade. Every bridge has a story the old bring has a story and i believe that the new bridge already has a story a story of beauty and construction safety. We honor those from the great demonstration that built the first bridge and from this day forward well honor folks that built this bridge on this l
Chineseamericans. Were linked to help build railroads with many of the chinese immigrants coming to San Francisco to join in the immigration station just to reach our shores. This new bridge will not be just an engineer marvel but carrying 2 hundred and 80 thousand vehicles between San Francisco and the east bay each day and hundreds of thousands of bicyclists at the same time. Today marks the historic part of our region but its a long ending of a long chapter after the 1989 earthquake. Just 29 years ago it took 63 lives. And we were forced to with an accepted opportunity to build something better. In my city because of the earthquake the embark freeway is gone. Now the service retrofit of todays bay bridge will insure that when the next massive earthquake hits our infrastructure will withstand that. It serves as ingenuity and it will help us. As we say thank you to the contractors and the engineers, the men and women in our labor force and their representatives and as they go on to ot
clapping . Those individuals and a many others are responsible for the iconic structure. Ill tip my hat to the contracting forces that built this bridge and 34 are mentioned by mr. Flowers but ill also acknowledge because were eternal indebted to them the many contractors and subcontractors that made this happen. Please give them another round of applause. Im going to take the risk of naming a few individuals ill end up leaving some folks out. The toll Bridge Program is mr. Tony clapping tony your help along the way was much appreciated. Brian has been mentioned engineer extraordinaire. The project manager is tim. Just one the principle managers is steve clapping and i will read off for you names who are heavily involved in the construction effort and ill ask them to stand. Theyre here every weekend. calling names clapping if you four could please stand up clapping those individuals are only a small representation of the amount of effort that went in and the others and i thank them all