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The official name of the bridge for all functional purposes has always been the "San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge", and, by most local people, it is referred to simply as "the Bay Bridge". Rolph, a Mayor of San Francisco from 1912 to 1931, was the Governor of California at the time construction of the bridge began. He died in office on June 2 ...
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge had congestion based-tolling from July 2010 until the policy's suspension in April 2020. In July 2010 congestion pricing tolls was implemented at the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. The Bay Bridge congestion pricing scheme charged a US$6 toll from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., from Monday ...
The MacArthur Maze [1] [2] [3] (or more simply the Maze; formally, the East Bay Distribution Structure [4]) is a large freeway interchange in Oakland, California.It splits traffic coming off the east end of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge into three freeways: the Eastshore (I-80/I-580), MacArthur (I-580) and Nimitz (I-880).
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 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.
About 250 pro-Palestinian protesters demanding a cease-fire in Gaza shut down westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge, bringing traffic on the crucial route to a halt.
The northern terminus of I-880 is in Oakland at the junction with I-80 and I-580 (known as the MacArthur Maze), near the eastern approach of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. I-880 between I-238 in San Leandro and the MacArthur Maze is used as the main truck route; trucks over 4.5 short tons (4.1 t; 4.0 long tons) are prohibited through ...
The idea for the Southern Crossing dates back to the 1940s when several additional bridges across San Francisco Bay were studied. [7] After the Bay Bridge crossing opened in 1936, connecting Rincon Hill 2 in San Francisco with the Key Mole 5 in Oakland via two high-level bridges and a tunnel through Yerba Buena Island, vehicle traffic exceeded estimates almost immediately; by 1945, even with ...