In an email last week to California Department of Transportation employees, agency Director Malcolm Dougherty mischaracterized the status of several controversies involving faulty materials, construction and testing on the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
After he reviewed the status of Caltrans’ work on broken and suspect bolts on the suspension span, Dougherty addressed other doubts about the bridge:

“We’ve already tackled the other challenges we’ve faced on this project. Welds – fixed; concrete foundations – fully evaluated, no flaws; corrosion on pre-stressed tendons – extracted and tested and rectified where necessary. Each of these had outside experts’ review,” he wrote.

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