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Fabricated and Flawed Integrity Tests Threaten Public Safety and an Iconic $6.3 Billion Bridge
The investigation found that a technician who tested the structural integrity of the other new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge fudnation had fabricated results on othe structures and committed numberous testing errors, callling to question the stability of California's costliest and most important public works project ever, among other freeway structures statewide.
Tags: bridges; San-Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; freeway structures
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Bay Bridge: A Special Investigation
This investigation of the Bay Bridge centered on allegations made by 20 welders who worked on the construction of a new Bay Bridge span -- the largest ongoing transportation public works project in the country. The workers alleged they were pressured to conceal substandard welds in the bridge's foundations and that they witnessed the contractor concealing injuries from health and safety regulators. The investigation continues, with pending results of the attorney general investigation, lawsuits and the state audit.
Tags: Bay Bridge; transportation; corruption; Department of Transportation
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Guard Readiness in Question
A series of stories by the Contra Costa Times "raised serious questions about the National Guard's ability" to protect "Bay Area bridges against a possible terrorist attack." The newspapers investigation "uncovered widespread problems, the most serious that some soldiers sporting loaded M-16s in crowded civillian areas were unqualified to handle their weapons."
Tags: National Guard; Bay Area; bridges; M-16s; rifles; unqualified; ability; military; soldiers
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The Bay Bridge: Where The Fault Lies
A three-day examination of how one of California's most visible and expensive public works projects foundered, and the cost to taxpayers as a result of the foul-ups.
Tags: public works projects; Bay Bridge; Loma Prieta earthquake; California Department of Transportation; Caltrans
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S.F. Weekly found that of the 17,964 tankers and freighters that entered the bay between 1990 and 1994, 132 were involved in accidents or near misses of some sort. And 43 lost power or steering or both. Of these, 15 were tankers. It is this group that is causing controversy over tug escort and speed limits. (June 14 - 20, 1995)