United States
San Francisco
Bay Bridge 🌉 San Francisco–Oakland (from Embarcadero)
United States
San Francisco
Bay Bridge 🌉 San Francisco–Oakland (from Embarcadero)
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Location: San Francisco, United States
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries about 240,000 vehicles a day on its two decks. It has one of the longest spans in the United States.
The toll bridge was conceived as early as the gold rush days, but construction did not begin until 1933. Designed by Charles H. Purcell, and built by American Bridge Company, it opened on November 12, 1936, six months before the Golden Gate Bridge. It originally carried automobile traffic on its upper deck, and trucks and trains on the lower, but from the 1970s on the lower deck was converted to all-road traffic as well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland_Bay_Bridge
December 18, 2016
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