THE OAKLAND BRIDGE

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 30

THE OAKLAND BRIDGE

Some notice was taken in this column of the new bridge connection between San Francisco and the city of Oakland on the other side of the bay when the project first took concrete shape. Good progress is being made with the great undertaking, and now it is confidently anticipated that the opening will. take place before the year 1936 is out.

The bridge will directly serve a population of over 2,000,000 people, and it is estimated that the number of vehicle crossings in 1937 will be 8,000,000, increasing to 10,000,000 by 1943 and 12,500,000 by; 1350, It is a

two-deck structure, the top one for cars. There will be no congestion, this deck being designed to carry 30,000,000 cars a year without it. ' This upper deck is to provide six lanes for high-speed traffic. The fivelane lower deck will provide three for heavy trucks and room for two electric train trucks. Headlights will not be required; the bridge is to be lit throughout by powerful non-glare lamps. The most striking feature of the structure will be the two great arches across the water, each span a mile long, placed end to end from San Francisco to Goat Island in the bay between the two cities. At the highest point in the long crossing cars will be 250 feet above the water. The bridge should not be confused with that other great undertaking at San Francisco, the structure across the Golden Gate, work on which is advancing rapidly. The Golden Gate bridge will connect San Francisco direct with the Marine Peninsula, and so to the north. The Oakland bridge is an east and west structure connecting the hearts of the two cities in the harbour.