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San Diego–Coronado Bridge. / 32.6865; -117.1583. The San Diego–Coronado Bridge, commonly referred to as the Coronado Bridge, is a prestressed concrete / steel girder bridge fixed-link, crossing over San Diego Bay in the United States, linking San Diego with Coronado, California. [ 6] The bridge is signed as part of State Route 75 .
The San Mateo–Hayward Bridge (commonly called the San Mateo Bridge) is a bridge crossing the American state of California 's San Francisco Bay, linking the San Francisco Peninsula with the East Bay. The bridge's western end is in Foster City, a suburb on the eastern edge of San Mateo. The eastern end of the bridge is in Hayward.
The official name of the bridge for all functional purposes has always been the "San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge", and, by most local people, it is referred to simply as "the Bay Bridge". Rolph, a Mayor of San Francisco from 1912 to 1931, was the Governor of California at the time construction of the bridge began. He died in office on June 2 ...
Goat Canyon Trestle is a wooden trestle in San Diego County, California. [1] At a length of 597–750 feet (182–229 m), it is the world's largest all-wood trestle. [1] [8] [10] [11] Goat Canyon Trestle was built in 1933 as part of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway, after one of the many tunnels through the Carrizo Gorge collapsed.
The Benicia–Martinez Bridge refers to three parallel bridges which cross the Carquinez Strait just west of Suisun Bay in California; the spans link Benicia on the north side with Martinez on the south. The original 1.2-mile (1.9 km) deck truss bridge opened in 1962 to replace the last automotive ferry service in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Richmond–San Rafael Bridge. / 37.9347; -122.4338. The Richmond–San Rafael Bridge (officially renamed the John F. McCarthy Memorial Bridge in 1981 [ 3]) is the northernmost of the east–west crossings of California's San Francisco Bay, carrying Interstate 580 from Richmond on the east to San Rafael on the west. It opened in 1956, replacing ...
July 14, 1971 [4] Location. The Bridgeport Covered Bridge is located in Bridgeport, Nevada County, California, southwest of French Corral and north of Lake Wildwood. It is used as a pedestrian crossing over the South Yuba River. The bridge was built in 1862 by David John Wood. Its lumber came from Plum Valley in Sierra County, California. [5]
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. p. 19. the Quincy Bayview Bridge located in Illinois, USA as shown in Fig. 2.1 is chosen as a typical cable-stayed bridge. ^ "State Highway Log Planning Report 2012: SR 2 to SR 971" (PDF). Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). p. 1152.