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After the new bridge was built, the old bridge was demolished but the western approach (the trestle span up to the original truss spans) was purchased by the County of San Mateo in 1968 for the nominal sum of $10 (equivalent to $67 in 2023 [2]) [9] and retained as the 4,055-foot (1,236 m) Werder Fishing Pier, [3] which was known as one of the ...
State Route 92 (SR 92) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California, serving as a major east-west corridor in the San Francisco Bay Area.From its west end at State Route 1 in Half Moon Bay near the coast, it heads east across the San Francisco Peninsula and the San Mateo–Hayward Bridge to downtown Hayward in the East Bay at its junction with State Route 238 and State Route 185.
Caltrans owns and operates the toll bridges and is responsible for the construction of the voter-approved RM 1 projects, including a new span for the Benicia-Martinez Bridge, a replacement for the west span of the Carquinez Bridge, and widening the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge. BATA is responsible for funding and overseeing the RM 1 bridge program.
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 idea for the Southern Crossing dates back to the 1940s when several additional bridges across San Francisco Bay were studied. [7] After the Bay Bridge crossing opened in 1936, connecting Rincon Hill 2 in San Francisco with the Key Mole 5 in Oakland via two high-level bridges and a tunnel through Yerba Buena Island, vehicle traffic exceeded estimates almost immediately; by 1945, even with ...
The Doran Memorial Bridge was originally known as the San Mateo Creek Bridge according to Caltrans plans. [1] [2] [3] It was named the Eugene A. Doran Memorial Bridge in 1969, after the Hillsborough police officer who was killed near the site on August 5, 1959; [4] [5] Doran's widow attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 28, 1969. [6]
The first section is an east–west arterial road running from SR 1 in San Gregorio to Menlo Park, across the Dumbarton Bridge through Fremont and Newark and ending at I-580 in Livermore. The segment between Marsh Road and the Dumbarton Bridge has been upgraded to an expressway and is known as the Bayfront Expressway. The segment from the ...
Then, after entering San Leandro, I-238 ends at its northern (geographically western) terminus with I-880. I-238 and I-880 are used as an alternate truck route between Castro Valley and Oakland ; trucks over 4.5 short tons (4.1 t; 4.0 long tons) are prohibited through the latter on I-580.