Caltrans engineer Brian Maroney holds a section of a three-inch rod while providing an update on the tower anchor rod testing on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge in Oakland, Calif. on ...

A broken anchor rod rises up next to still-tensioned rods on a shear key on the new Bay Bridge Friday afternoon May 3, 2013. Caltrans showed off the rods and some of the techniques they are using ...

Anchor rods in the tower of the Bay Bridge's new eastern span are not broken and 99 percent can withstand a major earthquake, Caltrans officials announced Wednesday.

Caltrans engineers display a three-inch rod which was found to be broken from the base of the SAS tower of the new Bay Bridge, during a news conference in Oakland, Calif. on Wednesday, May 20, 2015.

Another $3 million was withheld from American Bridge and Flour for ongoing issues with anchor rods at the bottom of the bridge's tower that were improperly grouted, allowing water to seep in.

The anchor rods that hold in place strands of the main cable of the $6.5 billion San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge have a new problem: They are skewed off-center inside holes of the steel plate to ...

RIDOT said the anchor rods date back to 1968, when the bridge first opened. An emergency inspection report from over the weekend included images of the damaged anchor rods, which hold the bridge ...

Two hundred seventy four anchor rods that hold the Bay Bridge's main cable in place are threaded through a support wall. But 205 of them are misaligned.

The bridge tower is secured by 424 massive anchor rods, each 25 feet long. Bridge officials reported last fall that about 95 percent of the rods had not been surrounded by grout, a cementlike ...

The anchor rods that hold in place strands of the main cable of the $6.5 billion San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge have a new problem: They are skewed off-center inside holes of the steel plate to ...

The writer, who helped designed the bridge, calls the mistakes RIDOT made in the wake of the shutdown "colossal." ...