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The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, commonly referred to 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 260,000 vehicles a day on its two decks.
The eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge was a construction project to replace a seismically unsound portion of the Bay Bridge with a new self-anchored suspension bridge (SAS) and a pair of viaducts. The bridge is in the U.S. state of California and crosses the San Francisco Bay between Yerba Buena Island and Oakland.
A curve near the western terminus, which is required so that the main spans cross the bay's shipping channels at 90 degrees per United States Army Corps of Engineers requirements [26] Panoramic view of the bridge, looking south, in which the two main spans (suspension at center and through truss at left) are visible.
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (eastern span) San Francisco Bay: 2013: California: 190 ft (57.9 m) Hawk Falls Bridge [16] Mud Run: 1957: Pennsylvania: Union Pacific Kate Shelley Bridge: Des Moines River: 2009: Iowa: 186 ft (56.7 m) Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge: Cooper River: 2005: South Carolina: Chesapeake Bay Bridge (dual spans) Chesapeake ...
In the decade after they went up, the 25,000 LED lights illuminating the western side of the Bay Bridge endured a brutal pounding.
A man involved in a collision on the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge fled the scene by jumping into the water, the California Highway Patrol said.
It is the part of San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge complex that crosses Yerba Buena Island. The Yerba Buena Tunnel carries ten lanes of Interstate 80 (I-80) on two decks, connecting the two component spans of the Bay Bridge, the western suspension span and the eastern self-anchored suspension span. At the opening of the Bay Bridge in 1936, it ...
The Fox Run S bridge in New Concord, Ohio. An S bridge is a bridge whose alignment follows a reverse curve, shaped roughly like a shallow letter S in plan, used in early 19th-century road construction in the United States. They were generally used for crossing small, curving streams with uneven banks.