Officials to announce opening date for new eastern span of San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}California transportation officials are expected to announce whether the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will open on Labor Day as planned or be delayed for months because of broken safety bolts.
A joint committee of the three agencies responsible for the bridge says in a statement that it will announce the opening date at a Thursday morning public meeting in Oakland.
The announcement from the Toll Bridge Oversight Committee was set to come two days after federal transportation officials signed off on a temporary fix for the cracked seismic safety bolts that have threatened to delay the opening until December or later.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The fix involves temporarily installing steel plates in the area of the broken bolts to help prevent movement during an earthquake while long-term repairs are done.