The ambitious and highly visible replacement of the east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has an accompanying website run by the California Alliance for Jobs. The site pulls together information about the companies and unions involved in the project and pays special attention to individual contributers on the project. The current east span was built in the 1930s with the piers standing on wooden timbers. You may remember that a section of the upper deck collapsed during the 1989 earthquake. It was determined that a complete replacement, at $2.6 billion, would be more feasible than a retrofit. The new bridge is designed to withstand a quake measuring 8.1 to 8.2 on the Richter scale. (via larkfarm)