Caltrans sorry for big Bay Bridge tie-up after Giants-A’s game

Caltrans apologized Thursday to scores of angry drivers after a contractor shut down a San Francisco on-ramp to the Bay Bridge before Tuesday night’s Giants-A’s game ended, causing the biggest traffic jam that officials and motorists said they had seen in years.

Baseball fans heading back to the East Bay after the second game of the Bay Bridge Series were met with hours of gridlock after leaving AT&T Park.

The contractor, Sacramento’s Myers & Son Construction company, broke a major procedural rule requiring it to wait at least 30 minutes after a game, concert or similar event before closing an on-ramp and lanes.

Jim McGill, a Giants season-ticket holder since 2000, said it took him more than two hours to reach his home in Moraga — usually a 25-minute drive from AT&T Park.

Workers were replacing expansion joint seals on the Bay Bridge — a project expected to be completed by Sept. 1, Haus said.

The seals operate like cartilage and keep the concrete deck section of the bridge from absorbing too much shock and cracking, he said.

Matt Shupe, 31, left a conference in the city around 11:45 p.m. Wednesday but didn’t reach Danville until 3:20 a.m. He called the ramp closure “the physical manifestation of Satan.”