Media Advisory
San Mateo-Hayward Bridge Widening Is Completed!
For Release: October 28, 2002
WHAT:
Ribbon-cutting event to celebrate completion of the San Mateo-Hayward bridge widening
project
WHEN:
Tuesday, October 29, 2002
11:30 a.m. - Reception
12:30 p.m. - Program
1:15 p.m. - Ride across the bridge to inaurate the new lanes
WHERE:
Reception: Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center, 4901 Breakwater
Avenue, Hayward, California
Program: On the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge
WHO:
Pete Stark, Member, U.S. House of Representatives
Tom Lantos, Member, U.S. House of Representatives
John Dutra, state Assemblyman
Lou Papan, state Assemblyman
Sharon J. Brown, Chair, Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Jeff Morales, Director, Caltrans
Project is funded from $1 of the $2 auto toll on the Bay Area’s state-owned toll
bridges and administered by the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA). The bridge widening was
designed and constructed by the state Department of Transportation (Caltrans). BATA is
staffed and given policy direction by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the
transportation funding, planning and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco
Bay Area.
CONTACT: Réka Goode, MTC 510.464.7706
Lauren Wonder, Caltrans 408.232.0228
NOTE to reporters: Please park at the Interpretive Center. For
safety and security reasons, buses – provided by AC Transit – will take guests
to the site of the ribbon-cutting. If you must drive your car or if you miss the bus, stop
at the Interpretive Center to pick up a pass that will allow you to drive through the
northernmost toll lane (toll lane #10) and park near the site of the ribbon-cutting. (In
case of rain, the program will take place at the Interpretive Center and not on the
bridge.)
DIRECTIONS: From the East Bay, take Interstate 880 to the
Highway 92/San Mateo Hayward Bridge exit. Go west and take the Clawiter Road exit (the last
exit before the toll plaza). At the four-way stoplight, go straight and then turn left
immediately after the service station, onto Breakwater Avenue. Follow the frontage road to
the Interpretive Center. From the West Bay, take U.S. Highway 101 to the
Highway 92/San Mateo Hayward Bridge exit. After crossing the bridge eastbound, take the
first exit after the toll plaza (Clawiter Road/Eden Landing Road), cross over the freeway
and turn left at the four-way stoplight. Go straight, then turn left immediately after the
service station, onto Breakwater Avenue. Follow the frontage road to the Interpretive
Center.
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