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The bridge is looking and just a bonus that all of us who are so fortunate to live here in the bay area, will be able to enjoy. And so today, we will say hello, to the newly span, but we also say good bye to the original version. Perhaps, a few comparisons between the old and the new are in order and you can follow along on your screens. The original was completed in the Great Depression and the new bridge as we weathered the great recession. And the cost was a little different between the two and even if yukon vert the original cost of the whole bridge end to end it is about one billion dolla...

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And we happen to have the person for the job, currently a professor of creative writing at uc river side and was craoe put to his post in 2012 and it is my pleasure to introduce him who has written a poem about our beautiful new bridge. Thank you, very much. It is a great pleasure to be here you look fabulous and this looks fabulous and i want to thank Governor Brown, for nominating me and confirming me as your poet laurit, and i would like to thank the arts council for doing the same and the University California river side and the department of transportation, and thank you so much. And i al...

The national anthem. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome steve hengineg executive director metropolitan transportation commission. Good afternoon, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee and my committee colleagues, and the director of cal transand the executive director of the california transportation commission, it is my great pleasure to welcome you at long last, to the opening ceremonies for the new east band of the San Francisco oakland bay bridge. That is an applause line. [ applause ] i know that you joined me in than...

In this wonderful, wonderful place. It could be came lot but it is as close to camp lot as any place in the country. Thank you, everybody clapping so i know youre all exited to go do the Ribbon Cutting but i need to make some last minute acknowledgments. Are we ready 5, 4, 3, 2, 4 and lets see if the scissors work. Yeah. . An Incredible Program because we take regular kids teach them the love of the game. We have no emphasis on winning we only have an emphasis on learning and trying as hard as they can thats it and the chips fall where they may. When students leave our program whether or not a...