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  1. Visiting the Bridge. Each year the Golden Gate Bridge attracts more than 10 million visitors to take in its tremendous 746-foot tall towers, sweeping main cables, signature International Orange color and Art Deco styling. It is a sensory experience featuring color, light and sound.

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  2. Jun 21, 2024 · By the late 1980s, three suspension bridges (the Golden Gate, in San Francisco, the Verrazano-Narrows, in New York City, and the Humber Bridge, near Hull, England) had main-span lengths of more than 1,200 metres (4,000 feet).

  3. 1 day ago · The bridge has two sections of roughly equal length; the older western section, officially known as the Willie L. Brown Jr. Bridge (after former San Francisco Mayor and California State Assembly Speaker Willie L. Brown Jr. ), connects downtown San Francisco to Yerba Buena Island, and the newer east bay section connects the island to Oakland.

  4. Jun 30, 2024 · The bridge is over 1.7 miles long, and the views from either side are spectacular. Walking or biking across the bridge is a popular activity, as it allows visitors to take in the sights at their own pace.

  5. 4 days ago · The Golden Gate Bridge spans 1.7 miles across the Golden Gate Strait, connecting San Francisco to Marin County. The bridge’s towers rise 746 feet above the water, making it one of the tallest structures in the San Francisco Bay Area. It took over 83,000 tons of steel, 600,000 rivets, and 1.2 million cubic yards of concrete to build this ...

  6. 4 days ago · July 7, 2023 - The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District faces a $423 million operating shortfall through 2028 due to a significant decrease in traffic driving across the bridge and paying the toll following the Covid-19 pandemic. The-CNN-Wire.

  7. Jun 23, 2024 · While the Brooklyn Bridge was the first steel-wire suspension bridge and held the record for being the longest suspension bridge in the world at its time, the Golden Gate Bridge is actually longer, measuring just short of 9,000 feet in total length.