
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor, Mary Fallin, wrote a December 9 letter to California Governor Jerry Brown thanking him for the help Caltrans officials have offered educating Oklahoma officials regarding earthquakes.
by William Bigelow28 Dec 2015, 8:43 AM PST0

On Saturday, November 7, at 9 a.m., Caltrans work crews will implode the largest concrete pier of the old Bay Bridge eastern span, a five-story underwater structure.
by William Bigelow1 Nov 2015, 10:37 AM PST0

On Thursday, the three-member oversight panel supervising the Bay Bridge construction project voted to punish the chief contractor, American Bridge/Fluor, by withholding $8 million in payments and fining the contractor another $3 million.
by William Bigelow25 Sep 2015, 1:21 PM PST0

This summer in Carlsbad, a treasure trove of Ice Age (Pleistocene Epoch) fossils from close to 200,000 years ago was unearthed at a construction site on Quarry Creek–the site of a new development where over 600 new homes are slated for construction.
by Adelle Nazarian7 Sep 2015, 12:36 PM PST0

Want to make $25,000 for an idea? If you create the best answer to the state of California’s question, “What’s the best way to improve the state’s transportation system?” you could become the lucky winner.
by William Bigelow31 Aug 2015, 11:14 AM PST0

Heavy rains, including those from the diminishing Hurricane Dolores, are hitting portions of drought-stricken California, with devastating results–from the collapse of a bridge on eastern California’s I-10 highway, to sinkholes and floating sheds in San Diego.
by Michelle Moons20 Jul 2015, 2:36 PM PST0

Last Thursday, thick snowflakes covered a portion of Northern California as a much-welcomed summer snowstorm hit the Tioga Pass in the Sierra Nevada mountains, precisely one week after the snowpack on the mountain range had officially disappeared.
by Adelle Nazarian12 Jul 2015, 6:25 PM PST0

The bad news for the San Francisco Bay Bridge tower just got worse: cracks have been discovered on some of the rods that are part of the tower foundation, according to Caltrans. Caltrans also admitted that one of the four tower anchor rods broke after water exposure made it brittle.
by William Bigelow24 Jun 2015, 2:21 PM PST0