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The Dumbarton Bridge and its adjacent powerline towers. The Dumbarton Bridge is the southernmost of the highway bridges across San Francisco Bay in California.Carrying over 70,000 vehicles [1] and about 118 pedestrian and bicycle crossings daily [2] (384 on weekends [3]), it is the shortest bridge across San Francisco Bay at 1.63 miles (8,600 ft; 2,620 m).
The Dumbarton Rail Bridge lies just to the south of the Dumbarton road bridge.Built in 1910, the rail bridge was the first structure to span San Francisco Bay, shortening the rail route between Oakland and San Francisco by 26 miles (42 km).
The Dumbarton Rail Bridge, a swing through-truss span, was the first structure built across San Francisco Bay. The Dumbarton Cut-off includes a second, smaller swing through-truss to the east of the Dumbarton Rail Bridge. Some portions of the timber trestles had been replaced with concrete structures in the 1960s and 1970s. [6]
The first section is an east–west arterial road running from SR 1 in San Gregorio to Menlo Park, across the Dumbarton Bridge through Fremont and Newark and ending at I-580 in Livermore. The segment between Marsh Road and the Dumbarton Bridge has been upgraded to an expressway and is known as the Bayfront Expressway. The segment from the ...
Dumbarton Express is a regional public transit service in the San Francisco Bay Area connecting Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties via the Dumbarton Bridge, the system's namesake. The bus service is funded by a consortium of five transit agencies ( AC Transit , BART , SamTrans , Union City Transit , and VTA ).
Category: Bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area. 6 languages. ... Dumbarton Bridge (California) E. Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge; G.
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.
Protected bicycle and pedestrian lanes exist on six Bay Area toll bridges: Golden Gate Bridge, Carquinez Bridge, Benicia-Martinez Bridge, Dumbarton Bridge, the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, and the Bay Bridge. In the last case, the path cannot be used to cross the bay, as the western span lacks a bike path.