Look at the progress in this view going into the tunnel. There are now stripes marking traffic lanes. Kpix5 brian webb shows us, it is so close you can feel the excitement. Reporter yes, less than 20 of the work left to be done on this end of the project. Some of it happening behind me. The lanes and the barriers lined up. Tomorrow looks like it will be a day of ceremony and shaking handing and by tuesday morning, if all goes well, the bridge will be open. Are we there yet . Reporter 11 years and 6. 5 billion behind us, the bridge countdown turns from days to hours. I think everyone is just very excited, relieved to be at this point. 16,000 tons of asphalt packed on the pavement, a dirty tunnel cleaned to look like new and shiny toll booth station complete with a new fast lane with everything in its place. A lot of things at the end for the roadway sweepers, you know, making sure there are not odd bits of metal in the roadway, that kind of thing. Reporter a bike path was so important t
Estimated time to get the streets reopen. Theyve been closed for about an hour and a half. Lets get an update on your forecast. We know its a holiday for some. It looks like it will be a descent day but there could be a few showers. Mostly light stuff making its way over san jose. You can see some of that sliding on by. Occasionally maybe a couple of sprinkles. Low pressure off the coast line dragging in tropical moisture. That will keep things fairly muggy. 66 in mountain view, 66 in San Francisco. We could see temperatures in the 80s this afternoon but a whole lot of clouds. 5 01 now. The bay bridge is almost ready for traffic. Theyre put the finishing touches on the bridge schedule today open tomorrow morning. Brian is up nice and early this morning. He has the latest in oakland. Reporter hi frank. Cantran say Tropical Storm goal is 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow. They will not say if theyll open early. We can tell you crews have worked overnight as they have since wednesday night. Theyre putt
Driver of the suspect vehicle was gone before the officers airied. The new span of the bay bridge is set to open in less than 24 hours. Many are asking if the price tag of over 6 Million Dollars is worth it. Reporter michelle, we know there have been a lot of different opinions to get this bridge build. Mr. Randy renchler sat down with us this morning and one of the things that came up was the special interest groups. He said a project engineers could tear down a city to build a bridge but thats not acceptable these days. He said what we went through to build this bridge is not acceptable either. Here we are 24 years later and 6. 4 billion. He says now that its done its worth it. You werent going to solve congestion or get more lanes of traffic. I think people wanted a statement on the bay. We wanted to build something that was better than its natural environment. Reporter we know, michelle, that one of the arguments was over the bike path which will come through in the end. Theyre wor
Toll plaza. During this tour of the east bay span there is a new bridge is is essentially complete. This bridge could uh come tate traffic, but we are not at the point where construction is scom completed. Paving is getting wrapped up and the tunnels have been washed down and lane stripes have been finished. Even the first pieces of a temporary bike ramp have been installed leading to the new bridge. Crews were hoisting sections of the new ramp into place after they completed the first stage of the old east bay spans demolition. For nearly 80 years this is the view drivers had as they made their way into san francisco. As of now this is the last time we will see it. This was the last evening tour of the construction project so crews let us take a few final pictures of the old span including an up close look at what failed during the earthquake. This section failed and fell on to the lower deck which resulted in one fatal incident during the earthquake. A diedyearold woman died when she