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