Bart Ney gets concerned calls from people just about every day. They see the steel trusses starting to cross San Francisco Bay between Yerba Buena Island to the west and the new 1.2-mile-long precast concrete Skyway to the east, alongside the existing eastern steel truss span of the old Bay Bridge. They wonder why the trusses don’t look at all like the striking self anchored assymetrical suspension span they saw in the renderings.
That’s because it’s not really a bridge. Like much of the construction under way on the $6.3-billion San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reconstruction program, it’s all temporary.