So we may never find closure over the $1.43 billion self-anchored suspension span of the rebuilt Bay Bridge, especially while we’re still paying tolls and waiting decades for the thing to be built, hopefully before the Big One strikes. But being new to the area, I must share my own bit of Zen over the bridge design. I was on my evening BART ride when I noticed two posters advertising BART as a way to get to baseball games and FSN as a way to watch them at home. One, seen here with the help of my amateur mobile phone photography, shows Barry Bonds in heroic follow-through in front of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Transamerica Tower

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