The Bay Bridge lights are back, returning with a newly-engineered LED system and a redesigned sequence of movement, with an official lighting ceremony scheduled for March 20.
Long admired by locals but often overshadowed by the Golden Gate Bridge, the western span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has rarely been celebrated beyond the Bay Area. That began to change several years ago, when artist Ben Davis reimagined the bridge as a massive canvas of light. Those original lights have now been replaced with a custom-designed system built to endure the bridge’s punishing environment…