There is no mandate for MTC's design. Consideration of rail had to be mandated by a ballot initiative because MTC refused to consider it. Task Force Chair Mary King complains that Jerry Brown did not show up at any Bay Bridge meetings. She must be forgetting that Elihu Harris, not Brown, was Mayor of Oakland when MTC approved the design. Mayor Harris, a member of King's Task Force, rejected it with objections now spoken by Oakland's new mayor.
Open competitions take as little as five months.
One recently opened January 4th and will close May 21st. Its crucial objective is housing the next 10 million Californians. Already, hundreds of submissions from around the world have been received. Better that MTC's irrational and dangerous bridge collapse in concept rather than after it is built. Daniel Coman and Rick Feher, a design partnership in Sacramento, were participants in the Bay Bridge design selection process.