How much did the Bay Bridge eastern span replacement cost?
The eastern span replacement of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is the self-anchored suspension and skyway bridge that replaced the damaged 1936 east span, officially opened at 10:15 p.m. on 2 September 2013. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission library's timeline traces Caltrans estimates from 150 to 200 million dollars for a retrofit in 1992, 1.52 billion for replacement in 1997, 2.6 billion in 2001, 4.6 billion in the State Auditor's 2002 report, 5.1 billion in 2004 and 6.2 billion in 2005, and Berkeley News says the project came in at 6.5 billion.
Final project cost
$6.5 billion
Cost basis: 2015
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Cost evidence
Basis of the published figure
Final project cost2015
Project record
2 September 2013