by The Associated Press
After numerous delays and cost overruns, pressure to complete the new $6.4 billion eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge led to pieces being created with cracked welds and other subpar work, government and private engineers told a state Senate commission on Friday. The engineers did not conclude the new span is unsafe, but they told the state Senate's Transportation and Housing Committee that myriad construction mistakes could have been prevented.…[ Read more ]