The east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in graphic illustration. Design by Eleven: Greg Hathaway, Darlene Gibson, Stella Trenggono & Liz Gershman.
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Posted inBay Bridge, News
How Wall Street profits from bridge building
The Bay Area Toll Authority has the unique power to raise bridge tolls without the Legislature’s approval, which it has done repeatedly to pay off the $6.9 billion bond debt amassed so far to build the new Bay Bridge and upgrade six other spans. That makes BATA particularly attractive to Wall Street, which has pocketed more than $122 million in fees to arrange the borrowing.
Posted inNews
Bay Bridge traffic delays delivery of Bay Bridge report
As the Bay Bridge Report by the Public Press and McSweeney’s hits the streets today, the San Francisco Chronicle is running a front-page story on a new fix for the old east span of the bridge. During Labor Day weekend repairs, Caltrans found a cracked eyebar on the eastern span. The agency did a temporary repair, parts […]
Posted inNews
Commodity of Hope
Artist Shepard Fairey, best known as the creator of the Obama campaign’s “Hope” graphic, has seen his share of ups and downs this year. After the explosive success of the “Obamicon,” the Associated Press accused him of using the then-U.S. senator’s photo without permission of the photographer. Archivists and other contemporaries have been critical of […]
Posted inEnvironment, News
San Francisco less progressive than it thinks, says outgoing green chief
After eight years as the director of the city’s Department of the Environment, Jared Blumenfeld is leaving the position in January for a bigger job.
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Violence against transgender youth sparks outrage
The San Francisco Chronicle reported recently that the San Francisco Police Department had delayed for two years the processing of DNA found near Ruby Ordenana, a transgender woman and prostitute who was killed in 2007. In the months after Ordenana’s death, three other transgender women survived assaults in San Francisco. The police have now linked DNA in […]