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Drivers started crossing the brand new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge around 10 PM Monday night (September 2, 2013) and this morning we got this adorable video from EarthCam providing a time-lapse video of the 59-month project.
According to Earth Cam, The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) relied on 12 EarthCam construction cameras to document progress for the $6.4 billion bridge. So, in 2008, EarthCam installed a combination of live streaming video cameras and high definition time-lapse systems, documenting the progress from 42 preset angles.
The cameras were in place for almost 6 years of progress–and now the footage has been boiled down into this 4 minute movie.
The Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge opened on Monday, September 2, 2013, hours before the new structure was scheduled to open. This video shows a drive across the bridge minutes after it opened and has been condensed and edited for time / San Francisco Chronicle
Chronicle photographer Carlos Avila Gonzalez takes one last drive across the eastern span of the Bay Bridge before it closed for good on August 28, 2013. / San Francisco Chronicle
In this Monday, Sept. 2, 2013 photo taken in a long exposure and provided by the Bay Area Toll Authority, police vehicles open the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to traffic, in San Francisco. At the modest inaugural ceremony, the new, self-anchored suspension bridge with its single white tower was praised as a dramatic safety upgrade over its predecessor and a beautiful example of public art. MAGS OUT, Photo: Bay Area Toll Authority, Noah Berger
In this photo taken on Monday, Sept. 2, 2013, provided by the Bay Area Toll Authority, a phalanx of police officers cross the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after leading a procession marking the east span's opening, in San Francisco. At the modest inaugural ceremony, the new, self-anchored suspension bridge with its looming, single white tower was praised as a dramatic safety upgrade over its predecessor. It also was held up as a beautiful example of public art. MAGS OUT, Photo: Bay Area Toll Authority, Noah Berger
The morning commute in full swing at the toll plaza, in Oakland, Calif. on Tuesday Sept. 3, 2013, after the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge opened late last evening to traffic. Photo: Michael Macor, San Francisco Chronicle
Cars cross the new Bay Bridge after it opened for the morning commute in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 3, 3013. There were no fireworks and little fanfare, but the gleaming white and newly built $6.4-billion eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has carried its first cars across the water. Part old and part new, part permanent and part temporary, the hybridized bridge reopened late Monday night after a five-day closure and more than a decade of construction and delays. (AP Photo/Bay Area News Group, Laura A. Oda) Photo: Laura A. Oda, Associated Press
A cyclist stopped to admire the view from near the suspension tower Tuesday September 3, 2013. The Alexander Zuckermann bicycle and pedestrian path on the new eastern span of the Oakland Bay Bridge was opened Tuesday. Photo: Brant Ward, The Chronicle
Members of the Alex Zuckermann family (center) were some of the first to make the ride named after their father and grandfather Tuesday September 3, 2013. The Alexander Zuckermann bicycle and pedestrian path on the new eastern span of the Oakland Bay Bridge was opened Tuesday. Photo: Brant Ward, The Chronicle
