Bay Bridge is a photograph by Walter Herrit which was uploaded on April 21st, 2013.
Bay Bridge
The San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge (known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a pair of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay of the U.S. state of... more
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Bay Bridge
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Walter Herrit
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The San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge (known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a pair of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay of the U.S. state of California. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road route between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries approximately 280,000 vehicles per day on its two decks. It has one of the longest spans in the world.
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 for traffic 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 after the closure of the Key System transit lines, the lower deck was converted to road traffic as well. In 1986, the bridge was unofficially dedicated to James B. Rolph.
The bridge consists of two main spans of roughly equal length, a western span connecting downtown San Francisco to Yerba Buena Island and an eastern span connecting the island to Oakland. The main part of the western span is a suspension bridge while the main part of the eastern span is a cantilever bridge. During the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, a section of the eastern span's upper deck collapsed onto the lower deck and the bridge was closed for a month. Reconstruction of the eastern span as a self-anchored suspension bridge began in 2002; the new span is scheduled to open in 2013.
This photo was taken from the San Francisco Bay trail - Pier on the end of Ford Point the former Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant in Richmond,Ca.
See for more Info
SAN FRANCISCO BAY TRAIL PROJECT
http://www.richmondca4business.com/news/documents/Bay%20Trail%20Project%20April%2006.pdf
RICHMOND MARINA BAY TRAIL
http://www.rcvb-ca.com/download/trail_map.pdf
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Dottie Kinn
Nice photo, Walter, but this isn't the Golden Gate Bridge. I live in SF not far from the GG. Not sure if it is the Bay Bridge as I've not seen it from this angle. Perhaps Google Earth can help you properly ID it.
Walter Herrit replied:
Thank you, When I took this photo, I ask the people fishing on the pier and they said it was the Golden Gate .