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The Carquinez Bridge is a pair of parallel bridges spanning the Carquinez Strait at the northeastern end of San Francisco Bay. They form the part of Interstate 80 between Crockett and Vallejo , California , United States.
A rail ferry, with the ferries Contra Costa and Solano provided service across the strait from 1878 near the location of the current rail bridge until the rail bridge was built in 1930. [5] Tall pylons carrying power lines cross the strait as well. The Carquinez Strait Powerline Crossing was the world's first powerline crossing of a large river.
The Benicia–Martinez Bridge refers to three parallel bridges which cross the Carquinez Strait just west of Suisun Bay in California; the spans link Benicia on the north side with Martinez on the south. The original 1.2-mile (1.9 km) deck truss bridge opened in 1962 to replace the last automotive ferry service in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Carquinez Bridge East bridge: 335 m (1,099 ft) 1,000 m (3,300 ft) Cantilever Steel 4 lanes 152+335+45+335 +152: Interstate 80 Carquinez Strait. 1927 1958:
Carquinez Strait and Suisun Bay. Carquinez Strait — part of the tidal estuary of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta drain into San Francisco Bay, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. The strait connects Suisun Bay in the delta with San Pablo Bay.
Interstate 80 (I-80) is a transcontinental Interstate Highway in the United States, stretching from San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey.The segment of I-80 in California runs east from San Francisco across the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge to Oakland, where it turns north and crosses the Carquinez Bridge before turning back northeast through the Sacramento Valley.
After the junction with SR 4 in Martinez, the highway crosses the Carquinez Strait on the Benicia–Martinez Bridge, immediately meeting the east end of I-780 on the Benicia end. The remainder of I-680, from Benicia to I-80 at Fairfield , lies between a hilly area to the west representing the southwestern tip of the Vaca Mountains , and a ...
The present double-track lift bridge across the Carquinez Strait replaced the train ferry in 1930. The California Pacific became part of the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) which in the 1990s merged into the Union Pacific Railroad, the line's current owner. The subdivision forms part of the modern Overland Route.