BAY BRIDGE
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Built just before the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay Bridge is composed of two segments and rests on the island of Yerba Buena.
Crossing the bay and linking San Francisco to Oakland, the Bay Bridge is actually made up of two segments and rests on the small island of Yerba Buena. The toll bridge was conceived in the days of the California Gold Rush, with Joshua Norton as its famous advocate, but construction didn't begin until 1933. Opened in November 1936, six months before the famous Golden Gate Bridge, it is one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. The steel footbridge measures over 7,200 meters, with five lanes of traffic in both directions and over 280,000 automobiles per day. Originally, the bridge accommodated car traffic on its upper deck and trucks, cars, buses and commuter trains on the lower deck, but after the Key System abandoned rail service, the lower deck was also converted to road traffic. In 1986, the bridge was unofficially dedicated to James Rolph, Mayor of San Francisco from 1912 to 1931, then Governor of California until his death in 1934. In 1989, following the Loma Prieta earthquake, the upper deck of the eastern section collapsed and the link was cut for a month. The project to build a new, earthquake-proof, single-storey bridge next to the old one began in 2002 and was not completed until eleven years later, at a cost of $250 million. Dismantling of the old part of the bridge began in 2014 and was completed in the first half of 2017. Oakland and Yerba Buena can also be reached by bike or on foot.
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