3,465 feet (1,056 m) or 0.66 miles (1.06 km) (suspension bridge), 3,300 feet (1,000 m) (cantilever bridge)
Width
84 feet (26 m) (suspension deck), 52 feet (16 m) (cantilever deck)
Height
410 feet (120 m) (suspension tower)
Longest span
2,387 feet (728 m) (suspension span)
Clearance below
148 feet (45 m) (suspension bridge), 140 feet (43 m) (cantilever bridge)
History
Opened
May 21, 1927; 96 years ago (1927-05-21) (original span) November 25, 1958; 65 years ago (1958-11-25) (eastbound) November 11, 2003; 20 years ago (2003-11-11) (westbound)
Closed
September 4, 2007 (2007-Sep-04) (original span)
Statistics
Toll
Eastbound only
FasTrak or pay-by-plate, cash not accepted
Effective January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2024 (2022-01-01 – 2024-12-31):
$7.00
$3.50 (carpool rush hours, FasTrak only)
Location
The Carquinez Bridge is a pair of parallel bridges spanning the Carquinez Strait at the northeastern end of San Francisco Bay. They form the part of Interstate 80 between Crockett and Vallejo, California, United States.
The name Carquinez Bridge originally referred to a single cantilever bridge built in 1927, which was part of the direct route between San Francisco and Sacramento. A second parallel cantilever bridge was completed in 1958 to deal with the increased traffic.
Later, seismic problems made the 1927 span unsafe in case of an earthquake, and led to the construction, and 2003 opening, of a replacement: a suspension bridge officially named the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge, in memory of iron worker Al Zampa, who played an integral role in the construction of numerous San Francisco Bay Area bridges. The Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge carries southbound traffic from Vallejo to Crockett, and the 1958 cantilever span carries northbound traffic.
The CarquinezBridge is a pair of parallel bridges spanning the Carquinez Strait at the northeastern end of San Francisco Bay. They form the part of Interstate...
The Carquinez Strait (/kɑːrˈkiːnəs/; Spanish: Estrecho de Carquinez) is a narrow tidal strait located in the Bay Area of Northern California, United States...
"Antioch Bridge". Bay Area FasTrak. Retrieved October 25, 2020. "Benicia–Martinez Bridge". Bay Area FasTrak. Retrieved October 25, 2020. "CarquinezBridge"....
American Toll Bridge Company (Aven Hanford and Oscar Klatt), who went on to build the original span of the CarquinezBridge. The bridge was opened on...
Francisco across the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge to Oakland, where it turns north and crosses the CarquinezBridge before turning back northeast through the...
– the CarquinezBridge in May 1927, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge in 1936, the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937, the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge in 1956...
of the highest bridges in the United States by height over land or water. Height in this list refers to the distance from the bridge deck to the lowest...
toll bridges: Golden Gate Bridge, CarquinezBridge, Benicia-Martinez Bridge, Dumbarton Bridge, the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, and the Bay Bridge. In the...
For motorists, twin bridges can limit the risk that both directions of traffic will be disrupted by an accident. CarquinezBridge – original cantilever...
list of cantilever bridges ranks the world's cantilever bridges by the length of their main span. A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers:...
Memorial Bridge, Carquinez Press, 2004 Robinson, John V. Spanning the Strait: Building the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge. Crockett, CA: Carquinez Press....
Washington Sydney Harbour Bridge, Australia 660 Fifth Avenue, New York Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (Triborough Bridge), New York CarquinezBridge, San Francisco Bay...
Area Toll Bridges. Benicia–Martinez Bridge Seismic Retrofit. Retrieved September 20, 2009. Caltrans. Bay Area Toll Bridges. CarquinezBridge Seismic Retrofit...
Vallejo to I-680 just north of the Benicia–Martinez Bridge in Benicia. It closely parallels the Carquinez Strait for its entire route. Originally, this segment...
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San Francisco. The Napa River forms its eastern side as it enters the Carquinez Strait juncture with the east side of San Pablo Bay. Mare Island is a...
sugar companies in Hawaiʻi. Its headquarters are in Crockett under the CarquinezBridge in unincorporated Contra Costa County, California. In 1993, the member...
a freeway in San Francisco between the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, and an expansion of I-710 through South Pasadena....
complex multimodal transportation infrastructure consisting of roads, bridges, highways, rail, tunnels, airports, seaports, and bike and pedestrian paths...
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