Talk:San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge

Bay Bridge Troll

I've been given an image of the troll that was welded onto the bridge after the Loma Preita earthquake. I'm currently in the process of verifying when and by whom the image was taken, and should also have some more information on who actually built and/or welded the troll to the bridge (apparently it was done in secret so it will take some tracking down). In the next several weeks I hope to have some verifiable information about the troll, and to add it to the Bay Bridge page. In the meantime, this page seems to have some passionate editors so I thought I'd post the image here to see if this was of interest to the community. My source for the image is a boatworker on the San Francisco Bay and is a font of information about the Bridge, the Bay in general, and a host of other topics :) so I hope it will be of interest to you all. EricRodenbeck— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ericrodenbeck (talk • contribs) 17:22, December 15, 2005 (UTC)

File:Bay bridge troll.jpg

Bay Bridge Troll

• Sounds like an authentic part of history to me. --Treekids (talk) 02:02, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

• Check out the video at http://cbs5.com/seenon/good.question.bay.2.455824.html -- includes a little history and an image of the troll, showing where it is on the bridge as well (at least to those that already know the bridge fairly well). MrRedwood (talk) 07:17, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Bridge toll

Obviously, 65 cents isn't modern day cash. Could someone add the 1936 tolls accounting for inflation? Thanks! Jm51 04:21, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Bay crossings nav box

This navbox has upstream and downstream. This does not work for the Bay Bridge as both crossings are "upstream", one to the north and one to the south. -- Samuel Wantman 07:43, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Um. East and West you mean, surely. But yes, you have a point. --Treekids (talk) 02:04, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Earthquake error

The 'Richter scale' is obsolete terminology. This needs to be fixed, with a reference to the appropriate authority (probably United States Geological Survey).MWS 13:52, May 22, 2006

New Bay Bridge

Info is needed on the new east span of the bay bridge. See http://www.newbaybridge.org/.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Andys627 (talk • contribs) 22:51, July 1, 2006 (UTC)

I have taken quite a few pictures from the water of the new Bay Bridge and the old, some are available here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/diversionmary/tags/bridge/ I have dozens more I can make available if anyone is interested. Please feel free to use these CC by-nc-sa eric@diversionmary.com

Held nomination from Version 0.5

This bridge is very notable, but it's not one of the top 5 or so super-famous bridges of the world. We'll renominate it for later versions, and it is likely to be included in those later releases. Walkerma 05:40, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Link after toll

Should the link after the toll in the sidebar point to the DOT web page http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/tolls.htm (which gives specific tolls for a wider variety of times and vehicles) rather than to the FastTrac article that is pretty irrelevant to visitors? --Yonran 23:06, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Other missing retrofit items

The West Span now has dampers to reduce movement.

The West Approach is being rebuilt. Temporary westbound lanes are now open, as of 9/1/06.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.175.225.22 (talk) 12:29, September 7, 2006 (UTC)

Why does the separate Eastern Span Replacement entry exist?

I asked this over on the Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge talk page too. Out of curiosity, why does that page exist? Much of the is here on the Bay Bridge page, which could certainly be expanded to include anything that is uniquely on the separate page.--Fizbin 13:27, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

The article dates to the time that Leonard G and I were working on bringing this article to feature level. There was an objection to quantity of information about the eastern span replacement, so we decided to make a sub-article and just have a summary in the main article. Over time, people have tended to put more and more of the detailed information back into the main article, and not put it into the sub article. If all the information is combined into this article it would make this article much longer, with too much weight on the bridge replacement. A better tact would be to remove more of the details from this article and put them into the sub article.-- Samuel Wantman 23:17, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Removed duplicated text, copied unduplicated text to sub-article. The removed text is currently commented out for easy comparison with sub-article and review in its original context, I will remove comments next week. - Leonard G. (talk) 02:43, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Container Ship Accident

Any thoughts on splitting this out into its own article? It looks as if this will be a major news story for some time, given the extent of the oil spill. Alternately, we could wait a few days/weeks to see if it dies down quicker than I expect. JavaTenor 20:22, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Train tracks

The article states that the train tracks were on the south side of the western span. I remember them being on the northwest side of the span, as I remember looking out the windows of the trains when we went from Oakland to San Francisco. Of course, my memory could be faulty after 50 years, but in the interest of accuracy, someone in the Bay Area might want to check in more detail (I'd do it myself, but I don't live in California anymore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Someonesdad363616 (talk • contribs) 00:12, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

I rode those trains fairly frequently, and also rode once as passenger in a light truck on the two-way three-lane side. The trains were (in my very firm recollection) on the south (or south-east) side. One modern clue to this was the bus off-ramps to the Transbay Terminal (facing Bryant, off of second street), on the south side of the bridge, which are repavings of the old tracks, but the terminal now also gone (according to google maps).- Leonard G. (talk) 03:43, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Silver Dream

Can anyone site a source in which the Bay Bridge is called the "Silver Dream." I've lived in the Bay Area my entire life and have never heard that phrase used. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.119.122.94 (talk) 21:15, 10 July 2008 (UTC)