The anchor rods that hold in place strands of the main cable of the $6.5 billion San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge have a new problem: They are skewed off-center inside holes of the steel plate to ...

OAKLAND — Strategically positioned high above the water, in a narrow crawl space between the new Bay Bridge deck and the top of its big pier east of the tower, instruments are listening for the sounds ...

OAKLAND — Microscopic corrosion has been found in a steel anchor rod in the $6.4 billion new east span of the Bay Bridge, Caltrans reported Friday. The corrosion doesn’t undermine the safety of the ...

Caltrans will spend $170,000 more to investigate the extent of tiny cracks in metal rods connecting the suspension span tower to its foundation on the new east span of the Bay Bridge. The latest work ...

Caltrans has uncovered evidence that one of the 25-foot-long rods that anchor the new Bay Bridge eastern span’s tower may have snapped after being installed, a finding that could cast doubt on ...

The head of the panel overseeing the new Bay Bridge eastern span acknowledged Monday that revelations of possible saltwater flooding at the base of the landmark tower and anchor-rod failure “are game ...

OAKLAND — At the same time Caltrans was receiving the hefty steel anchor rods that would later snap on the new Bay Bridge, the agency appeared to have growing concerns about the integrity of some high ...