San Francisco is a popular US city. It has many popular tourist spots that attract millions of visitors and without visiting there your tour is surly incomplete. Along-with God gifted natural beauty such as beaches, rivers, gardens, green hills, and beautiful forests with wild animals the city people created many other platforms which make city even more beautiful and attractive such as some old historic buildings, skyscrapers, a cable car facility to reach atop the steep hills, towers, and famous squares. Aside all these beauty the popularity of the Golden Gate Bridge is standing above all. The famous bridge of San Francisco was the longest and tallest suspension bridge when it was completed in 1937. Due to heavy traffic facing by San Francisco and Marin, its construction arose from the San Francisco and Marin was just too much needed.
Golden Gate Bridge is a masterpiece of engineering. Its construction was started in 1933. Engineer Joseph Strauss convinced the people who did not believe that it can be possible to span such a long bridge and built a 1600 meter wide strait bridge to link San Francisco Bay with Pacific Ocean. Despite facing many weather difficulties Joseph Strauss was able to complete his masterpiece on 27
th June 1937, with the help of thousands workers and 35 million dollars. In opening ceremony 18000 people walked across the bridge, while next day bridge was officially opened for traffic.
Traffic rush on Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate is an art deco suspension bridge having length of 8981 feet. The distance between two towers is 4200 feet long. It remained the long suspension bridge until 1964 when the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York was completed. The towers are 820 feet tall or 250 meters tall. The 20 meter of length of the bridge is below the sea level. The six lane road is 90 feet (27 meters) wide and 220 feet above the water level while today it bears the traffic of more than 120000 vehicles daily. The engineers use the technique to hang the bridge with support of thousands of cables. These cables anchored in hundreds of bars locked into concrete blocks with a pulling power of 25 million Kilograms. The two main cables atop of both sides are made of 27572 threads and having a length of 2332 meters with a diameter of 90 centimeters, connected with several small cables which are using to hold the bridge.
Walkway at Golden Gate Bridge
The 2.73 Kilometer length is still a challenge for those who are using the sidewalk (a paved path) on Golden Gate Bridge. Crossing the bridge by foot is extremely a great experience. You can take a tour by bus available on bus stop right at the start of the bridge. Viewing Golden Gate Bridge from nearby areas is a popular tourist thing to do. Some of the famous points are below
Night View of Golden Gate Bridge
At the San Francisco end the South Vista Point, at the Marin Country end the North Vista Point.
Baker Beach at Presidio Park, and for panorama view the Land’s End from the northern tip of Lincoln Park are the best point to enjoy the beauty of Golden Gate Bridge from different angles.
Some other facts about Golden Gate Bridge
Yearly, 5000 – 10000 gallons of paint are used to repaint the Golden Gate Bridge.
International Orange color is using only to provide the visibility in the fog for passing ships and also because it was a color that fit in naturally to the birdge’s setting and the surrounding land area.
Till today, the Golden Gate Bridge was closed three times since it was opened, due to extreme wind rushing at speed of 70 miles per hour.
According to a web source, the babies have been born on the Golden Gate Bridge are all of them have been boys.
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