A broken anchor rod rises up next to still-tensioned rods on a shear key on the new Bay Bridge Friday afternoon May 3, 2013. Caltrans showed off the rods and some of the techniques they are using ...

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is one of the largest state departments of transportation in the nation, managing more than 50,000 miles of California’s highways, or about ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — An executive with an Ohio manufacturer has said steel bolts used on a troubled new span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge were made exactly to specifications. Experts ...

Rather than write their own specifications for the myriad pieces and parts on a project, Caltrans engineers and the design consultants they hire rely heavily on standards set by American Society ...

Caltrans has asked the bridge design firm T.Y. Lin International to come up with a way to prevent water from entering the deck structures once and for all. There is no cost estimate for the work.

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Caltrans announced crews will perform another overnight full closure of the Butte City bridge for installation of the joint assembly across the new bridge deck on Saturday, March 22 from 9 p.m. to ...

Caltrans will hold a public meeting on Thursday, May 29, at Lompoc City Hall to discuss plans to replace the Robinson Bridge, perform pavement, sidewalk and sign improvements along a nearly 11 ...

American Bridge has been told it owes $8 million back for the problem, as has Caltrans and the chief design firm on the project, T.Y. Lin International. Caltrans is refusing to pay, and T.Y. Lin ...

Former quality control managers for the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge told a legislative committee Friday that Tony Anziano, head of the $6.4 billion project, pushed to compromise on ...

To clarify, the fences themselves are not going to cost $14 million, that's how much Caltrans has allocated for the design of the fences, which seems pretty nailed down in last year's announcement ...

OAKLAND — In the most comprehensive examination to date of why bolts broke on the new Bay Bridge, an analysis released Wednesday faults Caltrans for inadequate specifications and insufficient ...