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Name Image Built Listed Location County Type Albion River Bridge: 1944 2017-07-31 Albion: Mendocino: wooden deck truss bridge: Alexander-Acacia Bridge: 1925, 1927 1984-01-05
Southern Pacific Railroad Shasta Route, Bridge No. 310.58 Extant Pratt truss: 1901 1997 Southern Pacific Railroad: Sacramento River: Sims Shasta: CA-224: Southern Pacific Railroad Shasta Route, Bridge No. 324.99
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.
Caltrans District 7 Headquarters in Los Angeles, designed by Thom Mayne. Caltrans District 8 Headquarters in San Bernardino Caltrans headquarters in Sacramento. The earliest predecessor of Caltrans was the Bureau of Highways, which was created by the California Legislature and signed into law by Governor James Budd in 1895. [7]
Four books have been published about, or featuring, the Carquinez Bridges:Spanning the Carquinez Strait: The Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge (2003) by Caltrans, and Spanning the Strait: Building the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge (2004), Al Zampa and the Bay Area Bridges (2005), and, most recently, Carquinez Bridge: 1927-2007 (2017) all by John V ...
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.
The current bridge was completed and opened to traffic in February 1964. [4] It was constructed by U.S Steel Corp's American Bridge division and Massman Construction Co. [3] The structure won awards for engineering, design, and beauty. It was in the top 5 longest span arch bridges of this "supported deck" type in the world until the 1990s.
The segment from the eastern end of the Dumbarton Bridge to the interchange with I-880 has been upgraded to a freeway. The other section is a north-south arterial road that begins at SR 12 in Rio Vista , passes through Ryer Island (where it connects to SR 220 ), and ends in West Sacramento .