For much of the past two weeks, the Bay Area's attention was focused on a previously obscure piece of structural steel on the east span of the Bay Bridge known as an eyebar. The cracked eyebar ...

The cracked eyebar on the Bay Bridge is 70 years old. When new, it was considered the best in bridge design. Nevertheless, in 1967 that theory came crashing down along with the Silver Bridge ...

Bay Bridge officials say they have a plan in place to prevent future eyebar cracks on the eastern span. The back up plan includes spending a million dollars on a design for the quick fix.

Bridge crews wrapped up an emergency repair of a cracked steel link, known as an eyebar, on the east span at 5:30 a.m. First a trickle and then a steady stream of cars and trucks began rolling ...

Workers are now removing the temporary supports first put in place Labor Day weekend, when the cracked eyebar was discovered during a planned bridge closure, Caltrans spokesman Bart Ney said.

Traffic resumed well ahead of the 5 a.m. Wednesday reopening that Caltrans scheduled Monday, after the crack in the steel link, called an eyebar, had been discovered over the weekend. "Through the ...

The bridges are of varying design and age, but they all contain an element known as an "eyebar." Last fall, state inspectors discovered a 2-inch-wide crack in an eyebar of the eastern span of the ...

Caltrans has begun a long-term repair of the failed eyebar on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge that was discovered during the Labor Day closure. According to Caltrans spokesman Bart Ney ...

The bridges are of varying design and age, but they all contain an element known as an "eyebar." Last fall, state inspectors discovered a 2-inch-wide crack in an eyebar of the eastern span of the ...

A bent eyebar prompted officials to indefinitely close the Firefighters’ Memorial Bridge on Water Street, which links Pittston and West Pittston, county Engineer Lawrence Plesh said Tuesday.