The towering "Left-Coast Lifter" bides its time in Oakland prior to its deployment crafting the new Bay Bridge. Sorry this photo isn't exactly of Ansel Adams' caliber, but it's not easy to drive and shoot...Earlier this month, the Bay Area media went gaga over the "Left-Coast Lifter," the massive platform-based crane brought in to, literally, do the heavy lifting for the Bay Bridge. SF Weekly made a couple of calls and, to our astonishment, we ended up on the line with Mike Flowers, the project