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Author : San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Research Department
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (296 download)
Download or read book World's Two Largest Bridges written by San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Research Department and published by . This book was released on with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
ISBN 13 : 9781230477268
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)
Download or read book Bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Golden Gate Bridge, Dumbarton Bridge, San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge, Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge, Richmond - San Rafael Bridge, Carquinez Bridge, Cypress Street Viaduct, Benicia-Martinez Bridge, San Mateo - Hayward Bridge, Antioch Bridge, Bay Area Toll Authority, Mary Avenue Bridge, Fruitvale Bridge, Alvord Lake Bridge, Berkeley I-80 bridge, Leimert Bridge, Park Street Bridge. Excerpt: The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean. As part of both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1, the structure links the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County. The Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge span in the world when it was completed in 1937, and has become one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and of the United States. Despite its span length being surpassed by eight other bridges since its completion, it still has the second longest suspension bridge main span in the United States, after the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City. It has been declared one of the modern Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The Frommers travel guide considers the Golden Gate Bridge "possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed, bridge in the world." Golden Gate with Fort Point in foreground, circa 1891Before the bridge was built, the only practical short route between San Francisco and what is now Marin County was by boat across a section of San Francisco Bay. Ferry service began as early as 1820, with regularly scheduled service beginning in the 1840s for purposes of transporting water to San Francisco. The Sausalito Land and Ferry Company...
Author : San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Research Department
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Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Uniting the San Francisco Bay Area with the World's Two Largest Bridges written by San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Research Department and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Dillon
Publisher : Celestial Arts
ISBN 13 : 9780890874097
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (74 download)
Download or read book High Steel written by Richard Dillon and published by Celestial Arts. This book was released on 1979 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The construction of the Golden Gate and the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridges caught the imagination of the world, and they continue to inspire awe even today. >High Steel records the history of these magnificent bridges and their development. The bridges were designed to serve transportation needs while being flexible enough to withstand major earthquakes, but their architectural triumph is that they also enhance the beauty of their natural surroundings. >High Steel is a tribute to and record of the magnitude of that accomplishment.
Author : John V. Robinson
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531616175
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Al Zampa and the Bay Area Bridges written by John V. Robinson and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the commuters who daily cross the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge do not know much about its namesake. Yet Alfred Zampa (1905-2000) lived a remarkable life that touched not only the bridge named in his honor, but many of the other bridges around the Bay Area. An active ironworker from 1925 on, he typified a worker who was hardy and tough, but with the skill to perform extremely precise work under hazardous conditions. He often worked hundreds of feet above the San Francisco Bay with only the spindliest of support, and he fell from the Golden Gate Bridge in 1936. Caught by the safety net, he became a charter member of the ultra-exclusive "Halfway to Hell" club. Zampa died at the age of 95, six weeks after attending the groundbreaking of his namesake Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge, the only bridge named in honor of a building tradesman. The Images of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today. Arcadia is proud to play a part in the preservation of local heritage, making history available to all.
Author : R. B. Koeber
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Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (249 download)
Download or read book Uniting the San Francisco Bay Area with the World's Two Largest Bridges written by R. B. Koeber and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California. Division of Bay Toll Crossings
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Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Preliminary Report to Department of Public Works on Alterations & Approaches to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge written by California. Division of Bay Toll Crossings and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald MacDonald
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 145212731X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)
Download or read book Bay Bridge written by Donald MacDonald and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A must-have for any design, architecture, or Bay Area enthusiast.” —Front Door/HGTV An innovative landmark a quarter century in the making, the eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge represents the latest spectacular chapter in the history of this storied structure. The new bridge’s architect, Donald MacDonald, teams up with author Ira Nadel to create this illuminating book. With friendly text and charming illustrations, Bay Bridge reveals the design decisions that have shaped the evolution of the bridge over the last century—from the history of the original bridge, through the planning of the new span, to the construction of its signature 525-foot-high white tower. This volume offers a fascinating read for San Francisco devotees, architecture buffs, and tourists. “Evokes all the mythic splendor and danger of the ‘Titan of Bridges’ . . . As the architect of the new eastern span of the bridge, MacDonald brings intimate knowledge of the technical, political, and geological hurdles involved in its construction.” —ForeWord Reviews
Author : Karen Trapenberg Frick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317338510
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge written by Karen Trapenberg Frick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of TransportiCA’s September Book Club Award 2018 On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the partial collapse of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge’s eastern span, a vital link used by hundreds of thousands of Californians every day. The bridge was closed for a month for repairs and then reopened to traffic. But what ensued over the next 25 years is the extraordinary story that Karen Trapenberg Frick tells here. It is a cautionary tale to which any governing authority embarking on a megaproject should pay heed. She describes the process by which the bridge was eventually replaced as an exercise in shadowboxing which pitted the combined talents and shortcomings, partnerships and jealousies, ingenuity and obtuseness, generosity and parsimony of the State’s and the region’s leading elected officials, engineers, architects and other members of the governing elites against a collectively imagined future catastrophe of unknown proportions. In so doing she highlights three key questions: If safety was the reason to replace the bridge, why did it take almost 25 years to do so? How did an original estimate of $250 million in 1995 soar to $6.5 billion by 2014? And why was such a complex design chosen? Her final chapter – part epilogue, part reflection – provides recommendations to improve megaproject delivery and design.
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Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book San Francisco Bay Area Highway and Bridge Projects Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains correspondence, pamphlets, reports, drawings and maps relating to possible highway and bridge projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. Projects include a Geneva Ave bridge near Candlestick Park to Hayward; a San Francisco to Tiburon bridge through Angel Island; a Bay St. bridge to Richmond and Berkeley north of the Bay Bridge; a highway north of Golden Gate Bridge to Sears Point in Sonoma County. Documents are by some of the following departments: the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, the California, Dept. of Public Works, Division of San Francisco Bay Toll Crossings and the San Francisco, Dept. of City Planning.
Author : Michael C. Healy
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1597143812
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)
Download or read book BART written by Michael C. Healy and published by Heyday.ORIM. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider’s “indispensible” behind-the-scenes history of the transit system of San Francisco and surrounding counties (Houston Chronicle). In the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider’s account of the rapid transit system’s inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operations, warts and all. With a master storyteller’s wit and sharp attention to detail, Healy recreates the politically fraught venture to bring a new kind of public transit to the West Coast. What emerges is a sense of the individuals who made (and make) BART happen. From tales of staying up until 3:00 a.m. with BART pioneers Bill Stokes and Jack Everson to hear the election results for the rapid transit vote to stories of weathering scandals, strikes, and growing pains, this look behind the scenes of an iconic, seemingly monolithic structure reveals people at their most human—and determined to change the status quo. “The Metro. The T. The Tube. The world's most famous subway systems are known by simple monikers, and San Francisco's BART belongs in that class. Michael C. Healy delivers a tour-de-force telling of its roots, hard-fought approval, and challenging construction that will delight fans of American urban history.”—Doug Most, author of The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway
Author : Stephen Mikesell
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874174678
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book A Tale of Two Bridges written by Stephen Mikesell and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of Two Bridges is a history of two versions of the San Francisco—Oakland Bay Bridge: the original bridge built in 1936 and a replacement for the eastern half of the bridge finished in 2013. The 1936 bridge revolutionized transportation in the Bay Area and profoundly influenced settlement patterns in the region. It was also a remarkable feat of engineering. In the 1950s the American Society of Civil Engineers adopted a list of the “Seven Engineering Wonders” of the United States. The 1936 structure was the only bridge on the list, besting even the more famous Golden Gate Bridge. One of its greatest achievements was that it was built on time (in less than three years) and came in under budget. Mikesell explores in fascinating detail how the bridge was designed by a collection of the best-known engineers in the country as well as the heroic story of its construction by largely unskilled laborers from California, joined by highly skilled steel workers. By contrast, the East Span replacement, which was planned between 1989 and 1998, and built between 1998 and 2013, fell victim to cost overruns in the billions of dollars, was a decade behind schedule, and suffered from structural problems that has made it a perpetual maintenance nightmare. This is narrative history in its purest form. Mikesell excels at explaining highly technical engineering issues in language that can be understood and appreciated by general readers. Here is the story of two very important bridges, which provides a fair but uncompromising analysis of why one bridge succeeded and the other did not.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Bridge Across San Francisco Bay written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California. Department of Public Works. San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Division
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (217 download)
Download or read book San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge written by California. Department of Public Works. San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Division and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span Seismic Safety Project, San Francisco County written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Bridge Across San Francisco Bay written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
