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Bay Bridge open around Labor Day
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OAKLAND (AP) — Despite broken earthquake-safety bolts that threatened months of delays, California transportation officials approved a plan on Thursday to open the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge around the Labor Day weekend as originally planned. The Toll Bridge Oversight Committee voted unanimously at a public meeting to approve a temporary fix for the bolts and open the span on Sept. 3 instead of as late as December. The decision came days after federal transportation officials signed off on the temporary fix.