San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge - San Francisco, CA
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ucdvicky
N 37° 48.583 W 122° 21.927
10S E 555855 N 4184891
The bridge linking Oakland to San Francisco is part of ASCE's landmark project.
Waymark Code: WM2QJA
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 12/08/2007
Views: 53
"Ever since the Gold Rush days of the 1850s, San Francisco Bay area residents and businesses had lobbied for a bridge joining San Francisco and Oakland. Early studies indicated that the bridge was impractical and infeasible; but in October 1929, President Herbert Hoover (himself an engineer) and California Governor C. C. Young appointed the Hoover-Young San Francisco Bay Bridge Commission to study the question more closely. The Commission concluded not only that the bridge was necessary to the development of the area, but that it was "entirely feasible from economic and construction viewpoints."
Local residents marveled as the Bay Bridge went up in two colossal segments, linking Yerba Buena Island to the two shores. The bridge officially opened on November 12, 1936, with a four-day celebration of one of the most remarkable engineering feats of its time."http://live.asce.org/hh/index.mxml?lid=146&versionChecked=true
Location:
I-80
Type of structure/site: Bridge
Date of Construction: 1933-1936
Engineer/Architect/Builder etc.: chief project engineer Charles H. Purcell; bridge project engineer Charles E. Andrew; designer Glen Woodruff
Engineering Organization Listing: American Society of Civil Engineers
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Secondary Web Site: [Web Link]
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