Some of the steel being dismantled from the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge will be refashioned into art.
The Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee on Tuesday approved spending $2.2 million to salvage at least 300 tons of steel from the 10,000-foot-long structure to be used to create public art projects.
The Oakland Museum of California will administer the program and will start accepting proposals for art pieces that help highlight the history of the bridge, said Lori Fogarty, the museum’s executive director.
The plan called for spending twice as much on the artistic recycling project, but the amount was cut due to maintenance and repair issues with the new bridge.
