photos 1 & 2 of 13
IDENTIFYING FEATURES:
Red in color. Two towers, with box-shaped cross supports
CONNECTS:
San Francisco to Marin County
LENGTH:
About 1.8 miles
NUMBER OF LANES:
Six
PEDESTRIANS ALLOWED:
Yes
TYPE OF BRIDGE:
Suspension bridge
TOLL (at this writing):
$5.00 when entering San Francisco, no charge going the other way
CONSTRUCTION STARTED:
1933
FINISHED:
1937
ENGINEER IN CHARGE:
Joseph B. Strauss
WORKERS KILLED DURING CONSTRUCTION:
11
COST:
$35,000,000 in 1930s dollars
TRAFFIC:
Over 100,000 vehicles daily
FACT:
Well over 1000 people have committed suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge
IDENTIFYING FEATURES:
Gray in color. Western span (pictured above) has four towers, with X-shaped cross supports
CONNECTS:
San Francisco to Oakland
LENGTH:
About 4¼ miles, plus another four miles of approaches
NUMBER OF LANES:
Five on the upper deck, five on the lower deck
PEDESTRIANS ALLOWED:
No
TYPE OF BRIDGE:
Western span (San Francisco to Yerba Buena Island) is a suspension bridge. Eastern span (Yerba Buena Island to Oakland) is a cantilever-style bridge
TOLL (at this writing):
$3.50 when entering San Francisco, no charge going the other way
CONSTRUCTION STARTED:
1933
FINISHED:
1936
ENGINEER IN CHARGE:
Charles H. Purcell
WORKERS KILLED DURING CONSTRUCTION:
27
COST:
$70,000,000 in 1930s dollars
TRAFFIC:
Over 280,000 vehicles daily
FACT:
18% of all steel manufactured in the USA during 1933 went into the Bay Bridge
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