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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 ...
The southern end of the bridge, near the toll plaza and parking lot, is also accessible daily from 5:30 a.m. to midnight by San Francisco Muni line 28. [80] Muni formerly offered Saturday and Sunday service across the bridge on the Marin Headlands Express bus line, but this was indefinitely suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
On September 16, 1940, the Authority purchased two private toll bridges, the Carquinez Bridge and the Antioch Bridge. [1] On December 29, 1947, Director of Public Works Charles H. Purcell created the Division of San Francisco Bay Toll Crossings to carry out the planning, construction, and operations of all state-owned toll bridges. [2]
Golden Gate Bridge: San Francisco with Marin County: 1.7 mi (2.7 km) US 101, SR 1: Richmond-San Rafael Bridge: Richmond in Contra Costa County with San Rafael in Marin County 5.5 mi (8.9 km) I-580: San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge: San Francisco with Oakland and the East Bay: 4.46 mi (7.18 km) I-80: San Mateo-Hayward Bridge
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 Dumbarton Bridge and its adjacent powerline towers. The Dumbarton Bridge is the southernmost of the highway bridges across San Francisco Bay in California.Carrying over 70,000 vehicles [1] and about 118 pedestrian and bicycle crossings daily [2] (384 on weekends [3]), it is the shortest bridge across San Francisco Bay at 1.63 miles (8,600 ft; 2,620 m).
The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District is a special-purpose district that owns and operates three regional transportation assets in the San Francisco Bay Area: the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, the Golden Gate Ferry system and the Golden Gate Transit system. All three assets connect Marin County with San Francisco.