California Department of Transportation has announced that the seismic retrofit on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge has been completed for US$136 million less than last year's US$914 million projection. This is the sixth of seven toll bridges to be retrofitted since 2000 - only the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge is still under way. Its west span retrofit has been finished while the west approach and skyway sections of the east span are respectively 51% and 77% complete. The showpiece self-anchored suspension bridge was put out to tender last week with the contract due to be awarded in late March 2006.