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	<title>The Capricious Commuter &#187; Bay Bridge</title>
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	<description>Getting around the Bay Area with Denis Cuff and the Queen of the Road</description>
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		<title>MTC considers $1 million contract for move as senator prepares bill to suspend action on move</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/12/19/mtc-considers-1-million-contract-for-move-as-senator-prepares-bill-to-suspend-action-on-move/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week after a state senator announced plans for a bill to block further work on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission&#8217;s planned move from Oakland to San Francisco, the agency is calling a special meeting for Wednesday to hire an architectural firm to remodel the new headquarters building in San Francisco. The $1 million architectural contract is the latest source of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could there be a bike/ped. lane on Bay Bridge West Span?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A public meeting on a proposal for  bike and pedestrian lanes on the Bay Bridge western span will be held by Caltrans and the Bay Area Toll Authority at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday (tonight) in San Francisco. The site is the  the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, 100 Van Ness Ave., 26th floor.  The public is invited to learn the latest about the outlook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Caltrans workers fired from inspection unit had stolen gov construction materials, fed probe finds</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/11/27/two-caltrans-workers-fired-from-inspection-unit-had-stolen-gov-construction-materials-fed-probe-finds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/11/27/two-caltrans-workers-fired-from-inspection-unit-had-stolen-gov-construction-materials-fed-probe-finds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bay Area Toll Authority]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just two weeks after disclosures that a Caltrans technician had falsified inspection data on agency construction projects, a federal report says that the worker and his boss stole goverment construction materials for a project at the supervisor&#8217;s personal property. The new report, disclosed by the Sacramento Bee, is fueling an East Bay lawmaker&#8217;s suspicions that there is a problem in the culture of a Caltrans section that does tests to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was Caltrans culture prepared to deal with technician who falsfied inspection data?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/11/23/was-caltrans-culture-prepared-to-deal-with-technician-who-falsfied-inspection-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/11/23/was-caltrans-culture-prepared-to-deal-with-technician-who-falsfied-inspection-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bay Bridge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A state Senate transportation committee on Tuesday offered an unusual forum to question whether Caltrans did enough quickly enough when it discovered one of its technicians had falsified inspection data on construction projects. State Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, asked whether the Caltrans culture built around hard data and orderly procedures was prepared to deal with a case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bay Bridge to turn 75 on Saturday</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/11/09/bay-bridge-to-turn-75-on-saturday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The workhorse of Bay Area bridges  &#8211; the Bay Bridge - turns 75 years old on Saturday without any big fuss.  A modest invitation-only celebration will be held Thursday morning on Treasure Island, but it is not open to the general public.     &#8221;With the bridge being a state owned facility, there aren&#8217;t the resources to throw a big party or have fireworks,&#8221; said John Goodwin, spokesman for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caltrans to install last deck section Friday for suspension span of new Bay Bridge</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/10/28/caltrans-to-install-last-deck-section-friday-for-suspension-span-of-new-bay-bridge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/10/28/caltrans-to-install-last-deck-section-friday-for-suspension-span-of-new-bay-bridge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caltrans contractors on Friday will install the 28th and last segment of the suspension span deck on the new Bay Bridge eastern span, reaching another milestone in the $6.3 billion project. Lifting into place the last deck segment enables contractors to push ahead with preparations to begin stringing cable for the self anchored suspension span later this year. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the time ripe for congestion tolls on 2 more bridges?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/01/31/is-the-time-ripe-for-congestion-tolls-on-2-more-bridges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/01/31/is-the-time-ripe-for-congestion-tolls-on-2-more-bridges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bay Area Toll Authority]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new practice of charging higher tolls on a Bay Area bridge during busier commute times may expand to the San Mateo and Dumbarton bridges.   The Bay Area Toll Authority last summer debuted congestion tolls on the Bay Bridge when it did away with a flat toll round the clock. The authority charged tolls of $6 per vehicle in the rush hours and $4 in the off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to make the S-curve safe on the Bay Bridge</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/11/07/how-to-make-the-s-curve-safe-on-the-bay-bridge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/11/07/how-to-make-the-s-curve-safe-on-the-bay-bridge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bay Bridge has had nearly an accident a day on the new S-curve that opened after Labor Day modifications of the span. There was another crash there Friday even though Caltrans added new safety measures on the curve during the recent six-day closure of the bridge. Caltrans took advantage of that closure to add more prominent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who took biggest hit from 6-day Bay Bridge closure?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/11/06/who-took-biggest-hit-from-6-day-bay-bridge-closure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/11/06/who-took-biggest-hit-from-6-day-bay-bridge-closure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BART]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t put a price on the aggravation of being stuck in traffic. That comment from a Bay Area transportation official become the theme of my story today about the toll on the region from a six-day closure of the Bay Bridge for emergency repairs. And much as that statement is true, we at the newspaper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How did the Bay Bridge closure affect you?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/11/02/how-did-the-bay-bridge-closure-affect-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/11/02/how-did-the-bay-bridge-closure-affect-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/?p=831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We invite our readers to post comments below about how the Bay Bridge closure affected them during the five and a half days the span was out of service.  Did the closure change your travel plans? Did the closure try your patience? Was it understandable Caltrans took so long to fix a Labor Day repair that failed Tuesday? [...]]]></description>
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