OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has another bolt problem — this one involving the bicycle path, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
Numerous bolts used to anchor the railing along the path have failed, forcing the California Department of Transportation to make plans to replace hundreds of the steel parts, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The news comes as officials overseeing construction of the new span are scheduled to update the public later Wednesday about repairs to 32 seismic safety rods that broke after being tightened in March.
The failure of those rods, which attach the bridge deck to earthquake shock absorbers called "shear keys," has put the bridge's planned Labor Day opening date in jeopardy.
State transportation officials are not expected to say definitively Wednesday whether the span will open as scheduled on Labor Day weekend.