Caltrans Bridge Log

[cahwyguy]

Ever since Caltrans updated their website recently, I can't find the Caltrans Bridge Log. The links are all giving "content not found" Does anyone have any suggestions? I've sent a tweet to CaltransHQ.

[ClassicHasClass]

That's distressing. That's a really useful research tool. I don't have the old URLs for each district handy, but perhaps they're accessible that way?

EDIT: NVM. I tried the old D11 URL from www.dot.ca.gov/hq/structur/strmaint/brlog/logpdf/logd11.pdf and got a 404 on that too.

[cahwyguy]

All I can suggest is to keep retweeting to CaltransHQ and the districts to bring it back. Lots of old links, including to things like CTC minutes and project fact pages, have gone broken.

[Max Rockatansky]

All I can suggest is to keep retweeting to CaltransHQ and the districts to bring it back. Lots of old links, including to things like CTC minutes and project fact pages, have gone broken.

Are the CTC minutes still reachable via other means?

[cahwyguy]

I don't know yet. I haven't tried from the new CTC meeting minute pages. I do know that the link to some yellow book items that was in a news article from early June was not working, and that's a problem. Links given to news media should work for at least 90 days, if not 6 months.

[cahwyguy]

Caltrans pointed me to this as a temporary substitute: https://infobridge.fhwa.dot.gov/Home . Not as good as the bridge log -- it is harder to find all structures on a given route, and there are no postmiles. Still, the good folks at AAroads might be able to mine it for useful information, especially as it has all county and local bridges as well.

[ClassicHasClass]

I've used that for other states, but losing the postmile count is big. Plus comparing bridge logs from year to year is a great way to know when stuff drops off.

[oscar]

I've also found the bridge logs useful to help nail down where routes begin and end. I have the old paper logs, but those are really old and not updated (2002).

[cahwyguy]

As I've said before: we need to keep on Caltrans case to bring these resources back.

[cahwyguy]

Update: Bonnie, the information officer in District 1, has provided me copies of the bridge logs. When I finish with my site update in a week or so, I will make them publicly available through cahighways.org

Daniel

[rschen7754]

Some of them are still on the Caltrans website and available through obscure URLs through https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/maintenance/documents/f0009158-logd11-a11y.pdf (which I found on Google).