@article{ref1,
title="Sleek, Elegant, and Can Handle a Good Shaking': She's the New Benicia-Martinez Bridge",
journal="California transportation journal",
year="2008",
author="Gallup, Erin",
volume="",
number="2",
pages="2-4",
abstract="This article describes the new Benicia-Martinez Bridge, which crosses Carquinez Strait between Contra Costa and Solano Counties in California, and was completed in August 2007. The cast-in-place segmental bridge, which uses the balanced cantilever method, cost about $1 billion and replaced a bridge built in 1962. Its design incorporates light-weight concrete, “legs” built into rock, and girders with 1,000-ton spherical bearings that should allow the bridge to move six feet along the girder during a massive earthquake. The bridge, which features the San Francisco Bay Area’s first toll booth-free lanes for FastTrak customers, is also designed to accommodate light rail in the future.<p />",
language="",
issn="",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}