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Article: Bay Bridge to go dark to promote conservation
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 16, 2007
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If you saw the Bay Bridge go dark at 7:30 last night, it wasn't
an outage. It was a 15-minute practice run for Saturday's Lights Out
San Francisco, a first-of-its-kind event aimed at promoting energy
savings and fighting global warming.
Both Caltrans, which owns and operates the Bay Bridge, and the
Transit Authority, which owns and operates the Golden Gate Bridge
have agreed to darken their signature bridges to show how much
energy can be saved with the flick of a switch, or in the case of
the Bay Bridge, a whole battery of switches.
"The Bay Bridge is an icon, so hopefully the lights going out
will help promote energy awareness," said Bart Ney, Caltrans' Bay
Bridge spokesman.
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