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Zampa Bridge, Vallejo Bridge: Owner: State of California: Maintained by: California Department of Transportation and the Bay Area Toll Authority: ID number: 23 0015L (1927 span) 23 0015R (1958 span) 28 0352L (2003 span) Website: www.bayareafastrak.org: Characteristics; Design: Cantilever bridge (eastbound) Suspension bridge (westbound) Total length
State Route 58 (SR 58) is a major east-west state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs across the Coast Ranges, the southern San Joaquin Valley, the Tehachapi Mountains, which border the southern Sierra Nevada, and the Mojave Desert. It runs between U.S. Route 101 near Santa Margarita and Interstate 15 in Barstow.
The Antioch Bridge (officially the Senator John A. Nejedly Bridge) is an automobile, bicycle, and pedestrian [2] bridge in the western United States.Located in northern California, it crosses the San Joaquin River-Stockton Deepwater Shipping Channel, linking Antioch in Contra Costa County with Sherman Island in southern Sacramento County, near Rio Vista.
The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District has jurisdiction over the segment of highway that crosses the bridge instead of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). The movable median barrier between the lanes is moved several times daily to conform to traffic patterns. On weekday mornings, traffic flows mostly ...
The California State Legislature and governor enacted a law, effective in 1929, to establish the California Toll Bridge Authority (Stats. 1929, Chap 763) and to authorize it and the State Department of Public Works to build a bridge connecting San Francisco and Alameda County (Stats. 1929, Chap 762). [23] [24]
The Dumbarton Bridge and its adjacent powerline towers. The Dumbarton Bridge is the southernmost of the highway bridges across San Francisco Bay in California.Carrying over 70,000 vehicles [1] and about 118 pedestrian and bicycle crossings daily [2] (384 on weekends [3]), it is the shortest bridge across San Francisco Bay at 1.63 miles (8,600 ft; 2,620 m).
The State of California purchased the bridge on September 12, 1951, for $6,000,000 (equivalent to $56.5 million in 2023 [2]). By 1955, traffic exceeded 9,000 cars per day, [ 6 ] and in 1957, traffic was stopped an average of six times per day to allow ship traffic to pass the bridge. [ 3 ]
The Richmond–San Rafael Bridge (officially renamed the John F. McCarthy Memorial Bridge in 1981 [3]) is the northernmost of the east–west crossings of California's San Francisco Bay, carrying Interstate 580 from Richmond on the east to San Rafael on the west.