San Francisco Bay Bridges

San Francisco Bay Bridges
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1928
Genre: Bridges
ISBN:

San Francisco Bay Bridge Tools

San Francisco Bay Bridge Tools
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1953
Genre: San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)
ISBN:

Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Author: Karen Trapenberg Frick
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2015-08-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317338510

Winner of TransportiCA’s September Book Club Award 2018 On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the partial collapse of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge’s eastern span, a vital link used by hundreds of thousands of Californians every day. The bridge was closed for a month for repairs and then reopened to traffic. But what ensued over the next 25 years is the extraordinary story that Karen Trapenberg Frick tells here. It is a cautionary tale to which any governing authority embarking on a megaproject should pay heed. She describes the process by which the bridge was eventually replaced as an exercise in shadowboxing which pitted the combined talents and shortcomings, partnerships and jealousies, ingenuity and obtuseness, generosity and parsimony of the State’s and the region’s leading elected officials, engineers, architects and other members of the governing elites against a collectively imagined future catastrophe of unknown proportions. In so doing she highlights three key questions: If safety was the reason to replace the bridge, why did it take almost 25 years to do so? How did an original estimate of $250 million in 1995 soar to $6.5 billion by 2014? And why was such a complex design chosen? Her final chapter – part epilogue, part reflection – provides recommendations to improve megaproject delivery and design.

Crossings

Crossings
Author: Judy Fleagle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Bridges
ISBN: 9780615449210

Crossings ties together the history of the Oregon Coast Highway, the story of master bridge engineer Conde B. McCullough, the exciting path to federal funding, and the building of the coastal bridges, with special emphasis on the bridge that best represents McCullough's technical and aesthetic genius the Siuslaw River Bridge.