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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.The structure links the U.S. city of San Francisco, California—the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula—to Marin County, carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait.
The Golden Gate Bridge began requiring electronic payments for all tolls in March 2013, [49] and all the Orange County toll roads run by TCA likewise did the same in May 2014. [50] A plan to also eliminate toll takers on all seven of the state-owned bridges was approved in 2019. [ 51 ]
Pay-by-Plate or FasTrak (Toll westbound only) Golden Gate Bridge: Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District: US 101 / SR 1: Golden Gate: 8,981.0 2,737.4 $8.40 Pay-by-Plate or FasTrak (Toll southbound only) Richmond–San Rafael Bridge: Bay Area Toll Authority: I-580: San Francisco Bay: 29,040.0 8,851.4 $7.00
Phillie Casablanca, Flickr The authorities that run San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge announced that next year, they will remove the crossing's human toll takers and replace them with ...
San Francisco's world-famous Golden Gate Bridge looks much like this right now, but come September 2012 the last of those yellow "cash" signs are scheduled to wink out. That's because the bridge's ...
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 ...
Several scenarios are being considered regarding the best location to collect the congestion tolls. The following are the main alternatives: Charging the fee at the city's major entry points: the Bay Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the freeways to the south, Highway 101 and Interstate 280; or
Within Marin County, Golden Gate Transit is the contractor for a majority of bus service provided by Marin Transit, a relationship that dates to 1971. [4] Golden Gate Transit has operated bus service across the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge to Contra Costa County on behalf of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission since 1993.