Brown Jr.), connects downtown San Francisco to Yerba Buena Island, and the newer unnamed eastern section connects the island to Oakland. Bridge (after former San Francisco Mayor and California State Assembly Speaker Willie L. The bridge has two sections of roughly equal length the older western section, officially known as the Willie L. In 1986, the bridge was unofficially dedicated to James Rolph. It originally carried automobile traffic on its upper deck, with trucks, cars, buses and commuter trains on the lower, but after the Key System abandoned rail service, the lower deck was converted to all-road traffic as well. Purcell, and built by American Bridge Company, it opened on Thursday, November 12, 1936, six months before the Golden Gate Bridge.
The toll bridge was conceived as early as the California Gold Rush days, but construction did not begin until 1933. It has one of the longest spans in the United States. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries about 260,000 vehicles a day on its two decks.
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, known locally as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. Westbound: 14 feet (4.3 m), with additional clearance in some lanes San Francisco and Oakland, California, U.S.Ĭalifornia Department of Transportation and the Bay Area Toll Authorityĭouble-decked suspension spans (two, connected by center anchorage), tunnel, cast-in-place concrete transition span, self-anchored suspension span, precast segmental concrete viaduct
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