The Western Approach by costapanos

Photography • Atmosphere/Mood • posted on Jan 25, 2011

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Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate all your comments and views on all my last posts. The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge (known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a pair of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay of California, in the United States. Forming part of Interstate 80 and of the direct road route between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries approximately 270,000 vehicles per day on its two decks. It has one of the longest spans in the world. The toll bridge was conceived as early as the gold rush days, but construction did not begin until 1933. Designed by Charles H. Purcell,and built by American Bridge Company, it opened for traffic on November 12, 1936, six months before the Golden Gate Bridge. It originally carried automobile traffic on its upper deck, and trucks and trains on the lower, but after the closure of the Key System, the lower deck was converted to road traffic as well. After being temporarily closed on October 27, 2009 due to failure of the recently repaired eastern span, the Bay Bridge reopened on November 2. In 1986, the city of San Francisco unofficially renamed the bridge to The James "Sunny Jim" Rolph Bridge.

Comments (10)

MrsLubner

9:36AM | Tue, 25 January 2011

It will always be known to me as the Bay Bridge. :-) The it's the biggest thing that keeps me from visiting The City. :-) For many of us in the northern valley, it is more important than the Golden Gate.

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Sea_Dog

10:17AM | Tue, 25 January 2011

Great POV and good info on the Bay Bridge.

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durleybeachbum

10:33AM | Tue, 25 January 2011

It reminds me of a Whistler painting.

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francinechristophe

1:02PM | Tue, 25 January 2011

That is the kind of pic I like ! Well done !

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pauldeleu

4:27PM | Tue, 25 January 2011

Nice work.

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crender

1:30AM | Wed, 26 January 2011

wonderful work !!!

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Chipka

3:20PM | Thu, 27 January 2011

It would have been so easy to center this shot and leave it somewhat boring. The de-centered approach works so much better and you nailed it perfectly! WOW. There is a sense of majesty in this that I just adore, and the clean lines and swoop is just superb. This is a fantastic piece of photography. I love the elegance of it.

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