San Francisco Bay Span to Open Sept. 3, Agency Decides
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A new span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will open to traffic on Sept. 3, a day after the U.S. Labor Day holiday and 11 years after work began, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission said.
Agency officials agreed today to close the existing bridge, which carries Interstate 80 across San Francisco Bay, beginning at 8 p.m. Aug. 28 until 5 a.m. Sept. 3 to finish construction work and shift traffic to the new $6.4 billion section. The decision was made in a commission hearing in Oakland.