Enough Bay Area residents want to experience the new Bay Bridge firsthand that attendance at the opening ceremony is so large it creates “the greatest traffic jam in the history of San Francisco,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Construction of the bridge – really two bridges — begins July 9, 1933.

The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, commonly referred to as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries about 260,000 vehicles a day on its two decks.

Jul 28, 2012 · In 1936, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened to great fanfare, after three years and five months of construction. On opening day, former President Herbert Hoover said, “this is the greatest bridge yet constructed.” Nowadays, 280,000 vehicles drive on …

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is made up of two bridge segments: a skyway structure/single anchored suspension bridge between Oakland and Yerba Buena Island, and a suspension span from the island to San Francisco. Connecting the two is the largest diameter bore tunnel in the world.

The opening of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge on Labor Day 2013 marked the symbolic end of a long and challenging journey. A fleet of California police officers on motorcycles led the first official crossing of the new Bay Bridge.

Nov 4, 2022 · The opening of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge inspired a lot of poetry. A lot of really bad poetry. Here’s one the Sacramento Bee saw fit to publish on Nov. 12 — the same day the Bay Bridge first opened to traffic:

When the Golden Gate Bridge opened on May 27, 1937, the celebration lasted a week. The day before, 200,000 people walked, ran, and even roller skated across the bridge. On opening day, San Francisco official boarded the ferry that would carry them to Sausalito. They formed a motorcade that faced three barriers.

May 25, 2022 · The bridge, once completed, would allow drivers to go from San Francisco and Oakland easily and quickly. But until the 1930s, building this bridge was thought impossible – it is an 8-mile long span crossing waters that were very deep and had swift currents, and there was a noticeable lack of stable bedrock upon which to build.

Jun 6, 2022 · When the Bay Bridge opened on Nov. 12, 1936, it sparked one of the biggest parties the Bay Area has seen — even bigger than the Golden Gate Bridge debut the next year.

Bay Bridge opening day from offramp, November 12, 1936. (wnp14.4472; Courtesy of a Private Collector) Just prior to the 12:30 p.m. Opening Day ceremonies, crowds gathered on the upper deck of the bridge and its approaches, as well as on the adjacent hillside. Governor Frank Merriam being interviewed at Bay Bridge opening day, November 12, 1936.