The Benicia-Martinez Railroad Drawbridge, a lofty Bay Area landmark for 95 years, has developed an altitude problem. The ...

A Bay Area bridge with a notorious bottleneck is about ... Not only is the current design outdated, since the bridge uses FasTrak for tolling, but the design guarantees a bottleneck.

But he admits you cannot design for every possibility ... That is because most of the supporting piers of many Bay Area bridges, including the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge, are built ...

Richmond -San Rafael Bridge Open Road Tolling rendering. Design courtesy Metropolitan Transportation Commission. SEE ALSO: Bay Area bridges due for collapse risk assessment in the event of ship ...

and this design prevented the bridge from collapsing and sustaining major damages. CalTrans spokesman Bart Ney explained that Bay Area bridges have a “protection device around it that is a ...