San Francisco's Old Bay Bridge to Become Gateway Park--Wacky Proposals Ensue

San Francisco plans a 50-acre park underneath the new Bay Bridge.

Most of the fun of watching San Francisco rebuild its seismically-suspect Bay Bridge isn't from seeing the new span emerge, or from snickering at the BART chaos is causes, but from cataloging the brilliant and wacky proposals for what to do with the old bridge--besides blowing it up. There was the Bay Line project, from Virginia San Fratello and Ronald Rael, which proposed a deck-top park and hanging houses suspended...