The Bay Bridge

By Henry Petroski

Oakland's Bay Bridge has a colorful history, but it faces an uncertain future

Engineering Human Ecology Transportation

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May-June 2005

Volume 93, Number 3
Page 202

DOI: 10.1511/2005.53.202

San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge are inextricably linked in the minds of tourists, but to many a commuter across San Francisco Bay, the most significant fixed crossing in the area is the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, popularly known as the Bay Bridge.

Adapted from map courtesy of U. S. Geological Survey, 1942.

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