Eastern Span of The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge by martinlrosen

The partially dismantled old Eastern Span of The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The new Eastern Span is shadowed on The San Francisco Bay. Crews have begun to carefully dismantle the 77-year old East Span section-by-section, in roughly the reverse order of how it was built in the mid-1930's. Demolition of the nearly 2-mile long original East Span will take place in three phases over three to five years. Crews will first work in the westward direction toward Yerba Buena Island, taking apart the cantilever section and demolishing the S-Curve, before moving east to dismantle the 504’ and the 288’ truss spans. The demolition team will then head to the waterline to remove the piers, pilings and foundations that support the span. When the entire demolition project is complete, over 58,000 tons of steel and 245,000 tons of concrete will have been removed. via 500px http://j.mp/T0XmL4