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Bay Bridge Trail Walk Oakland, California
Tuesday, May 23, 2017 |
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Preface:
My former WPI student and friend Deborah Oakley is a civil engineer & architect
connoisseur who told me many intricacies of bridge building as
we walked across the East Span of
Oakland Bay Bridge.
She is an Associate Professor of Architecture at UNLV. She was sent by a Maryland Civil Engineering firm to inspect the
1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake and Oakland Bay Bridge partial collapse.
She told me that the East Span is "an engineering tour-de-force!" It took us awhile to find free parking behind
the Bridge Yard building at 210 Burma Road for bike/pedestrian path across Bay Bridge. Our walk started at
12:15 pm and ended at 3:30 pm. It was windy walking across the bridge. Coming back, fog covered left side toward Oakland.
On seeing the giant Yang Ming cargo ship
across the bay, I told Deborah it's named after Wang Yang Ming,
my favorite philosopher.
He's also a favorite sage of Anthony Damiani and
Paul Brunton.
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 Parking Lot at Bay Bridge Trail |
 Bridge Yard Building (210 Burma Road) |
 Hexagonal Packing of Colored Cables |
 Inside of Bridge Yard Building |
 Side of Bridge Yard Building |
 Side of Bridge Yard Building |
 Trail Access Sign |
 Cylinder of Cables for Bridge |
 Heavy Cables in Cylinder Wheel |
 Bay Trail Signpost |
 Photos Bridge Construction Inside Building |
 BayBridgeInfo.org Sign |
 Morning Glories on Bay Bridge Trail |
 Bike Path Hours Sign |
 Start of Bay Bridge Trail |
 Sign: Two-Hour Round Trip |
 Bike Trail to Bay Bridge |
 Bent Wired Fence for Strength |
 Purple Sand Verbana (Abronia umbellata) |
 More Morning Glories (Ipomoea nil) |
 Guardians of the Galaxy Billboard |
 Palm Trees to Bay Bridge |
 Bike Trail to Bay Bridge |
 Cargo Ships Across the Bay |
 Bay Bridge Trail Map Board |
 View Across the Bay |
 View to Oakland on Bridge Trail |
 Remnant Posts of Collapsed Bridge |
 Flexible Railings for Hot or Cold |
 View of East Span Bay Bridge |
 Evergreen Cargo Ship |
 Tug Boats in Bay |
 Remnant of Collapsed Bridge |
 Tug Boats & Crane |
 Construction Dock Closeup |
 Crane Construction |
 Construction Still Going On |
 Two Cranes Construction |
 Evergreen Cargo Ship & Repair Dock |
 Crane Construction Dock |
 Overview of Repair Dock |
 Repair Dock & East Span |
 Exit 4 Sign to Treasure Island |
 Coming Closer to East Span |
 Crane & Repair Dock |
 Closer to East Span |
 East Span Straight Ahead |
 Comorant Flies by Repair Dock |
 Repair Dock & East Span |
 Tug Boat Streaming in Bay |
 East Span Traffic to Oakland |
 Sailboat in Bay |
 East Span Cable Support |
 East Span Traffic to Oakland |
 East Span Cable Detail |
 Deborah & East Span Cables |
 Cable to Tower of East Span |
 Floodlights on Cable of East Span |
 Scenic Coast from Bay Bridge |
 Near the End of East Span |
 Cable Reinforcement |
 Cables to East Span |
 In Line to East Span Tower |
 Top of East Span Tower |
 East Span Tower toward Oakland |
 Scenic Coast from Bay Bridge |
 Tower & Web of Cables |
 Deborah Walking to Oakland |
 Bay Bridge Cable Closeup |
 View of Bay to Oakland |
 Deborah Walking Back to Oakland |
 Bay Bridge Traffic to Oakland |
 Closeup of Bay Bridge Cable |
 Traffic on Bay Bridge to Oakland |
 Fog Across the Bay in Oakland |
 Fog Bank in Oakland from Bridge |
 Fog Clearing in Oakland |
 Yang Ming Cargo Ship & Rocky Coast |
 Yang Ming Cargo Ship (Closeup) |
 UFO & Shark Clouds Over Bridge |
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