Caltrans Delays Bids for Bay Bridge Project
Caltrans has delayed by four months bids to build a key section of a new $3-billion eastern span of the Bay Bridge.
Caltrans also announced this week that the seismic safety job may not be finished until 2010, more than 20 years after the bridge was damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake.
The agency still needs to award three major contracts for the project: a suspension tower, its underwater foundation and a connector to the island tunnel.
Bids to build the tower have been delayed several times. Contractors have said Caltrans’ time and cost expectations weren’t realistic.
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