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Low-lying fog pushes up against the center anchorage of the Bay Bridge Tuesday afternoon Nov. 29, 2011 into San Francisco, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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Low-lying fog makes for challenging driving over the Bay Bridge Tuesday Nov. 29, 2011 into San Francisco, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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Caltrans switches on more than 100 large lights attached to the steep catwalks that will be used to install a giant cable over the top of the 525-foot-tall Bay Bridge tower near San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. The lights give a preview of what the completed bridge will look like at night. The lights were used as construction lights on the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge in Crockett. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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Clinging to a new catwalk on 35-degree grade 300 feet above San Francisco Bay, ironworkers install a side mesh to the precarious perch going up on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge Friday June 17, 2011. The catwalk was installed earlier this week and precedes the next major step of installing the single-anchor suspension bridge's main cable this October. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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Clinging to a new catwalk on 35-degree grade 300 feet above San Francisco Bay, ironworkers install a side mesh to the precarious perch going up on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge Friday June 17, 2011. The catwalk was installed earlier this week and precedes the next major step of installing the single-anchor suspension bridge's main cable this October. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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Working 350 feet above San Francisco Bay, Caltrans contractors install a catwalk to the tower of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge Thursday afternoon June 16, 2011. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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Ironworkers guide the world's largest cable saddle into place atop the 500-foot tall tower of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge Thursday May 19, 2011. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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Ironworkers step around the seating of a 450-ton cable saddle onto the tower of the the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge 500 feet above San Francisco Bay late Thursday May 19, 2011. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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Ironworkers hoisted the world's largest cable saddle onto the tower of the the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge Thursday May 19, 2011. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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Next time you complain about hanging the holiday lights, consider the job of decorating the 374-foot tall Bay Bridge tower project. Ironworkers showed plenty of yuletide spirit, creating holiday trees on the triangular cross members of the rising tower's construction rigging Wednesday Dec. 22, 2010. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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The first piece of the third set of tower sections for the iconic Self-Anchored Suspension Span slowly starts its journey up at the construction of the new Bay Bridge in Oakland, Calif. on Dec. 15, 2010. After the latest set of four tower section arrived in the Bay Area, Stage 3 started, which will bring the tower to an elevation of 374 feet. (Laura A. Oda/Staff)

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Dwarfed by a 100-foot long, 500-ton section of the Self-Anchored Suspension tower being hoisted 480 feet above San Francisco Bay, a crew of men take a precarious tour of the Bay Bridge construction project as it proceeds Monday Feb. 28, 2011 in San Francisco, Calif. As strong temblors in Japan and New Zealand have brought renewed scrutiny to earthquake preparedness, the quake prone state has struggled on a number of fronts: old concrete school, hospital and apartment buildings remain while more than $7 billion and decades of planning have still not resulted in a replacement to the quake damaged San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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Traffic congestion in the San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan area has decreased enough in the recent hard economic times that it is no longer among the five most gridlocked areas in the nation, according to a new report by a Texas institute that watches transportation trends. The Bay Bridge traffic Thursday Jan. 20, 2011 into San Francisco, Calif. illustrates the areas new sixth place ranking. (Karl Mondon/Staff)Ironworkers do a high beam act over Yerba Buena Island Thursday Jan. 20, 2011 assembling the connector roadway for the new Bay Bridge span sprouting up in San Francisco Bay. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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Traffic congestion in the San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan area has decreased enough in the recent hard economic times that it is no longer among the five most gridlocked areas in the nation, according to a new report by a Texas institute that watches transportation trends. The area fell to a sixth spot for congestion in 2010, the group said. Traffic congestion in the San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan area has decreased enough in the recent hard economic times that it is no longer among the five most gridlocked areas in the nation, according to a new report by a Texas institute that watches transportation trends. Commuters on the Bay Bridge Monday Jan. 17, 2011 probably would take little solace about the area's new sixth place ranking. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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The third set of tower sections for the iconic Self-Anchored Suspension Span starts going up at the construction of the new Bay Bridge in Oakland, Calif. on Dec. 15, 2010. After the latest set of four tower sections arrived in the Bay Area, stage 3 started which will bring the tower to an elevation of 374 feet tall, three-quarters of the final height of 525 feet. (Laura A. Oda/Staff)

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There are two sections of the deck yet to be put in place as part of the iconic Self-Anchored Suspension Span of the new Bay Bridge as of Wednesday Dec. 15, 2010 at the Bay Bridge construction site in Oakland, Calif. (Laura A. Oda/Staff)

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Three of the four tower sections that recently arrived in the Bay Area lay on a barge ready to be shipped out to the construction site of the new Bay Bridge in Oakland, Calif. on Dec. 15, 2010. These legs are part of the third set of tower sections for the iconic Self-Anchored Suspension Span that is going up which will bring the tower to an elevation of 374 feet. (Laura A. Oda/Staff)

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The third set of tower sections for the iconic Self-Anchored Suspension Span starts on the construction of the new Bay Bridge in Oakland, Calif. on Dec. 15, 2010. After the latest set of four tower section arrived in the Bay Area the stage 3 started which will bring the tower to an elevation of 374 feet tall. (Laura A. Oda/Staff)

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The Bay Bridge filled up quickly after the re-opening in Oakland, Calif. on Monday morning Nov. 2, 2009. The Bay Bridge re-opened about 8:50 am Monday after a final inspection to the repairs. (Laura A. Oda/staff)

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Escorted by a phalanx of five CHP squad cars, the first Bay Bridge commuters in six days make their way across the troubled span at 9:15 AM Monday Nov. 2, 2009. The span closed last Tuesday after a 5000 lb. component of a temporary eyebar repair crashed onto a passenger vehicle. Photo take from the 42nd floor of 1 Rincon Hill. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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Construction crews work to repair the Bay Bridge which is closed for emergency repairs on Wednesday October 28, 2009 in Oakland, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Staff)

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Traffic starts to backup along westbound Highway 92 near the toll plaza for the San Mateo Bridge in the early morning hours of Tuesday September 8, 2009 in Hayward, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Staff)

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The Bay Bridge traffic flows once again after Caltrans opened it up a little before 7:00 am Tuesday morning Sept. 8, 2009 (Laura A. Oda/staff)

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The Bay Bridge traffic flows once again after Caltrans opened it up a little before 7:00 am Tuesday morning Sept. 7, 2009. An East bound car travels over the new section of the bottom deck as the sun rises. (Laura A. Oda/staff)

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The Bay Bridge traffic fows once again after Caltrans opened it up a little before 7:00 am Tuesday morning Sept. 8, 2009 (Laura A. Oda/Staff)

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Caltrans workers do maintenance work during the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge closure in the San Francisco Bay, Calif., on Monday, Sept. 7, 2009 Also, crews repair an eyebar in the east span after a fracture was discovered Saturday afternoon that might delay the opening of the Bay Bridge scheduled for Tuesday at 5 am. (Ray Chavez/Staff)

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Caltrans workers do maintenance work during the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge closure in the San Francisco Bay, Calif., on Monday, Sept. 7, 2009 Also, crews repair an eyebar in the east span after a fracture was discovered Saturday afternoon that might delay the opening of the Bay Bridge scheduled for Tuesday at 5 am. (Ray Chavez/Staff)

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Construction workers repair the eyebar that was discovered fractured last Saturday in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the San Francisco Bay, Calif., on Monday, Sept. 7, 2009. Due to the repair, the opening of the Bay Bridge might be delayed. (Ray Chavez/Staff)

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Construction workers continue to work on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge project in the San Francisco Bay, Calif., on Monday, Sept. 7, 2009. The crews inspect the structure near the eyebar that was discovered fractured last Saturday which might delay the opening of the Bay Bridge scheduled for Tuesday at 5 am. (Ray Chavez/Staff)

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Getting to fog-shrouded San Francisco--as seen in this Sunday morning Sept. 6, 2009 view-- may become a major headache for Tuesday morning commuters. Caltrans announced Saturday night, the discovery of a crack on an integral i-bar piece of the cantilever section of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge. The scheduled reopening of the bridge for 5 AM Tuesday is not in doubt. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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A worker photographs the damaged I-Bar located east of the E3 tower of the eastern approach of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009 in the San Francisco Bay, Calif. The crack was discovered yesterday and can possibly delay the scheduled opening of the Bay Bridge forcing commuters to find alternative forms of transportation on Tuesday. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Staff)

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A worker measures the damaged I-Bar located east of the E3 tower of the eastern approach of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009 in the San Francisco Bay, Calif. The crack was discovered yesterday and can possibly delay the scheduled opening of the Bay Bridge forcing commuters to find alternative forms of transportation on Tuesday. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Staff)

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The moon rises over a 300-foot long hole in the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge Friday evening Sept. 4, 2009. Caltrans contractors used gallons of Dove liquid to slide the 70-year old section of the span out of the way of a new detour. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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VIPs gather to watch a 70-year-old section of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge slowly coaxed away from the span Friday afternoon Sept. 4, 2009. Caltrans contractors used gallons of Dove liquid soap to help grease the rails. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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The roll-in of the tie-in connector to the Bay Bridge detour began on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009 at 11am, but stopped part way through to allow crews to make some adjustments to the fit of the 3600-ton section. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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Construction work continues on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Friday morning Sept. 4, 2009 with sparks flying and gaps opening in the eastern span. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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Construction work continues on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Friday morning Sept. 4, 2009 with sparks flying and gaps opening in the eastern span. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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Crews are ferried by crane in a basket to a temporary support structure being constructed for the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Friday morning Sept. 4, 2009. Sparks were flying and gaps were opening nearby on the old eastern span. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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Perched high atop the cantilever structure, people watch construction work on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Friday morning Sept. 4, 2009. Sparks were flying and gaps were opening on the eastern span. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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A CHP car, left, escorts a group of classic cars right after the Toll Plaza closed down to start the Bay Bridge Labor Day weekend project in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. The bridge is expected to reopen by 5 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 8. (Ray Chavez/Staff)

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The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge becomes a ghost town Thursday evening, Sept. 3, 2009, after Caltrans began their four-day closure allowing work crews to remove a 300-yard section of the eastern span and replace it with a detour connector. (Karl Mondon/Staff)

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