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Lafayette Park is an 11.49 acres (4.65 ha) [2] park in San Francisco, California, United States. Originally created in 1936, [3] it is located in the neighborhood of Pacific Heights between the streets of Washington, Sacramento, Gough, and Laguna. Located on a hill, the park offers views of many areas, including the city's Marina district ...
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 ...
The Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) is a state agency created by the California State Legislature in 1997 to administer the auto tolls on the San Francisco Bay Area's seven state-owned toll bridges. On January 1, 1998, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) — the transportation planning , financing and coordinating agency for the ...
A view of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge toll plaza in 2008. The center and right toll booths are labeled "Fastrak Only", while the left toll booth accepts cash and Fastrak. Cash payment was phased out during the COVID-19 pandemic and replaced with license plate tolling, and now all booths read "Fastrak or Invoice" other than the HOV lane.
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. The 1962 bridge has seven 528-foot (161 m) spans and 138 feet (42 m) of vertical clearance, now carrying four lanes of southbound traffic, as well as a path for pedestrians and bicyclists. [ 1 ]
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge had congestion based-tolling from July 2010 until the policy's suspension in April 2020. In July 2010 congestion pricing tolls was implemented at the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. The Bay Bridge congestion pricing scheme charged a US$6 toll from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., from Monday ...
The original bridge, known as the San Francisco Bay Toll Bridge, opened on March 2, 1929 [7] [8] [9] after about a year of construction. It was a privately owned venture and was then the longest bridge in the world. [ 3 ]
The Bay Area Toll Authority then approved a plan in December 2024 to implement 50-cent annual toll increases on all seven state-owned bridges between 2026 and 2030 to help pay for bridge maintenance. The standard toll rate for autos will thus rise to $8.50 on January 1, 2026; $9 in 2027; $9.50 in 2028; $10 in 2029; and then to $10.50 in 2030.