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By Will McCahill, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 31, 2009 5:44 AM CDT

(Newser) – With the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge due to go out of commission when its replacement is completed (current ETA: 2013), a campaign is amping up in the blogosphere to keep it around as a pimped-out version of New York’s popular... Read full story »

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