Golden Gate bridge

      The golden gate bridge is a suspension bridge Spanning the golden gate strait, the mile-wide, three-mile-long channel between San Francisco bay and the pacific ocean. It opened in 1937 and had, until 1964, the longest suspension bridge main span in the world, at 4,200 feet (1,300 m 0.

Golden Gate bridge

• Crosses=
• Golden Gate.
• Locale=
• San Francisco, California and Marin country, California, US.
• Designer=
• Joseph Strauss, Irving morrow, and Charles ells
• Design =
• Suspension, truss arch & truss causeways.
• Material=
• steel

History.

The causality land ferry company service, launched in 1867, eventually became the Golden Gate ferry company, a sou-them pacific railroad subsidiary, the largest ferry operation in the world by the late 1920. Once for railroad passengers and customers only, sou-them specifics automobile ferries become very profitable and important to the regional economy.

      Preliminary discussions leading to the eventual building of the Golden Gate Bridge were held on January 13, 1923, at a special convention in Santa Rosa, CA. the Santa Rosa chamber was charged with considering the necessary steps required to foster the construction of a bridge across the Golden Gate by then Santa Rosa chamber president frank Doyle (the street Doyle leading up to the bridge is named after him).

       One June 12, the Santa Rosa chamber voted to endorse the action of the “Bridging the Golden Gate Association” by attending the meeting of the Boards of supervisors in San Francisco on June 23 and by requesting that the board of Supervisors of Manson country also attend. By 125, the Santa Rosa chamber had assumed responsibility for circulating bridge petition as the next step fox the formation of the golden gate bridge.

• Total length=
• 8,981 ft (2,737.4 m), about  1.7 mi (2.7 km)
• Width=
• 90 ft (27.4 m)
• Height=
• 746 ft (227.4 m)
• Construction end=
• April  19, 1933.
• Opened=
• May 27, 1937, 77 years ago.
• Designated=
• June 18, 1987.

construction

Construction.

Construction began on January 5, 1933. The project cost more than $35 million, completing ahead of schedule and under budget.

      The project was finished and opened my 27, 1937. It was completed $1.3 million under budget. The bridge round house diner was then included in the southeast-em end of the golden gate bridge, adjacent to the tourist plaza which was renovated in 2010.

      Bridge round house, an art decor designs by flared finial completed in 1938, traffic is separated by small, plastic pylons, and from 1971 through 2007, there were 16 fatalities form head-on collisions. To improve safety, the speed limit on the golden gate bridge was reduced from 55 to 45 mph (89 to 72 km/h) on October 1, 1983.

      In march 2008 the golden gate bridge district board approved a resolution to start congestion pricing at the golden gate bridge charging higher tolls during peak hours, but rising and falling depending on traffic levels.

      This decision allowed the bay area to meet the federal requirement to receive $158 million in federal transportation funds us dot urban partnership grant. An interview with Kevin hi ens who, as a 19 years old in 2000, survived a suicide plunge from the span and is now a vocal advocate for some type of bridge barrier or net to prevent such incidents.