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San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (West)

San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge (West)

General Information

Structural Type: Suspension bridge
Function / usage: Road bridge
Built: 1933 - 1936
Status: in use

Geographic Information & Related Structures

Location: San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA, North America
Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA, North America
Crosses
  • San Francisco Bay
Part of:
Connects to Yerba Buena Tunnel (1936)

Technical Information

Dimensions

main span 2 x 704 m
length of side spans 354 m

Materials

cables steel
pylons steel
deck truss steel

Chronology

12 November 1936

Opened to traffic.

Participants

Steel construction

Seismic retrofit

Structural engineering

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Internal Information

Structure-ID: s0000262
Created: 19/05/1999
Last Updated: 05/03/2013