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| Gowden Gate Brig
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 A view o the Gowden Gate Brig frae the Marin Heidlands in Januar 2007.
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| Coordinates
| 37°49′11″N
122°28′43″W
/
37.81972°N 122.47861°W
/
37.81972; -122.47861
Coordinates
:
37°49′11″N
122°28′43″W
/
37.81972°N 122.47861°W
/
37.81972; -122.47861
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| Carries
| 6 lanes o
  US 101
/
SR 1
(
see ablo
), pedestrians an bicycles
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| Crosses
| Gowden Gate
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| Locale
| San Francisco
,
Californie
an
Marin Coonty
, Californie, U.S.
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| Mainteened bi
| Gowden Gate Brig, Highway an Transportation Destrict
[1]
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| Chairacteristics
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| Design
| Suspension
,
truss arch
&
truss causeways
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| Material
| Steel
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| Tot lenth
| 8,981 ft (2,737.4 m),
[2]
about 1.7 mi (2.7 km)
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| Width
| 90 ft (27.4 m)
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| Hicht
| 746 ft (227.4 m)
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| Langest span
| 4,200 ft (1,280.2 m)
[3]
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| Clearance abuin
| 14 ft (4.3 m) at toll gates, heicher truck loads possible
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| Clearance ablo
| 220 ft (67.1 m) at
Tide
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| History
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| Designer
| Joseph Strauss
,
Irving Morrow
, an
Charles Ellis
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| Construction begin
| Not recognized as a date. Years must have 4 digits (use leading zeros for years < 1000).
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| Construction end
| Not recognized as a date. Years must have 4 digits (use leading zeros for years < 1000).
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| Opened
| 27, 1937
; 87 years ago
(
1937-05-27
)
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| Statistics
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| Daily traffic
| 110,000
[4]
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| Toll
| Caurs (soothboond anly)
$8.00 (Pay bi plate), $7.00 (
FasTrak
), $5.00 (carpuils durin peak oors, FasTrak anly)
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| Designatit
| 18 Juin 1987
[5]
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| Reference no.
| 974
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| Designatit
| 21 Mey 1999
[6]
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| Reference no.
| 222
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The
Gowden Gate Brig
is a
suspension brig
spannin the
Gowden Gate
strait, the mile-wide, three-mile-lang channel atween
San Francisco Bay
an the
Paceefic Ocean
.
