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Pages in category "Suspension bridges in California" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge; Spruce Street ...
CA-31: Golden Gate Bridge: Extant Suspension: 1937 1984 US 101 / SR 1: Golden Gate: San Francisco and Sausalito: San Francisco and Marin CA-32: San Francisco ...
Highway Bridges of California MPS I Street Bridge: 1910, 1911 1982-04-22 Sacramento ... Cantilever truss/suspension: Sather Gate and Bridge: 1910 1982-03-25 Berkeley
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean in California, United States. The structure links San Francisco —the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula —to Marin County , carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State ...
The Vincent Thomas Bridge is a 1,500-foot-long (460 m) suspension bridge, crossing Los Angeles Harbor in Los Angeles, California, linking San Pedro with Terminal Island. It is the only suspension bridge in the Greater Los Angeles area. The bridge is part of State Route 47, which is also known as the Seaside
The Spruce Street Suspension Bridge, colloquially known as the Wiggly Bridge, is a historic 375 ft (114 m) long footbridge in the Bankers Hill neighborhood of San Diego, California. It was built in 1912 by Edwin M. Capps. It can hold a maximum of 327,900 lb (148,700 kg) and crosses Kate Sessions Canyon. [2]
Some of the first suspension structures were bridges. The first iron chain suspension bridge in the Western world was the Jacob's Creek Bridge (1801) in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, designed by inventor James Finley. [1] The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is another example of a suspension structure. Much like the ...
The original Bidwell Bar Bridge was the first steel suspension bridge in California. The $35,000, 240-foot-long (73 m) original was completed in December 1855, and was built of materials transported from Troy, New York , via Cape Horn .