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This new bridge was named the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge, after an ironworker who worked on a number of the San Francisco Bay Area bridges, including the Golden Gate Bridge, and the original 1927 Carquinez span. The bridge was dedicated on November 8, 2003, and opened for traffic on November 11, 2003.
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:
The railroad bridge was built between 1928 and 1930 for Southern Pacific Railroad to replace its train ferry between Benicia and Port Costa, California. It is the second-longest railway bridge in North America, and the longest railway bridge west of the Mississippi River.
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.
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.
Caltrans owns and operates the toll bridges and is responsible for the construction of the voter-approved RM 1 projects, including a new span for the Benicia-Martinez Bridge, a replacement for the west span of the Carquinez Bridge, and widening the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge. BATA is responsible for funding and overseeing the RM 1 bridge program.
w:Carquinez Bridge in 2006 from left to right 1956, 1928 and 2003 spans. Date: 25 October 2006, 11:23:21: Source: originally posted to Flickr as The Carquinez Bridge: Author: Debra Roby: Permission (Reusing this file)