Official: Bay Bridge fix could take weeks

Published April 10, 2013 7:41pm ET



OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Finding a fix for bolts that snapped on the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge could take weeks or even months, a state transportation official said Wednesday.

California Transportation Commission Chief Engineer Stephen Maller made the comments at a meeting of the Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee in Oakland, raising concerns that the span won’t be ready in time to open on Labor Day as planned.

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