Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge over the Strait Golden Gate, the opening of the Bay of San Francisco in the Pacific Ocean. The bridge is part of bothU.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 and connects the peninsula of San Francisco with Marin County North of San Francisco's metropolitan area. The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most recognizable symbols of San Francisco and the State of California. The American Society of Civil Engineers declared the bridge one of the seven wonders of the modern world.

The bridge was designed by the American engineer Joseph b. Strauss. The construction was completed in about four years and has about 35 million dollars. The Golden Gate Bridge opened festively on 27 May 1937.

The bridge, painted in international orange, is maintained by about thirty painters. [1]

Dimensions of the bridge

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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == Before the bridge was built, was the only way to the Bay to cross by ferry. A ferry crossing with this took 20 minutes. Many experts thought that it was not possible to build a bridge over this Bay because of the strong currents, also the water in the Middle 102 meters deep.
 * 2 Construction
 * 3 Trivia
 * 4 see also
 * 5 external link

In 1916 asked the city engineer of San Francisco other engineers to ideas for a bridge. Joseph Strauss had a cheap bridge designed that $ 17 million cost, only there were a lot of people disagree with the appearance of the bridge. Strauss was asked to with other experts to design a better appearance for his bridge. Along with Irving Morrow, he has a better design for the bridge made, this time a suspension bridge.

In 1930, the population of San Francisco and Marin County agreement with the building of the bridge. By 1929 the stock crisis could not finance the Government building, in the end, the Bank of America, who is based in San Francisco the bridge financed. ==Construction[ Edit] == The construction of the bridge was started on 5 January 1933 and the bridge was completed in april 1937. During the construction of the bridge there are 11 construction workers died, for their safety, there was a net stretched under the bridge, this makes a total of 19 construction workers by saved.

<p lang="en" len="127" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The color of the bridge is selected by Irving Morrow because it clearly visible in the fog that often at the bridge was to be found. ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * In the first 70 years after the opening of the bridge over 1300 people have committed suicide by jumping from the bridge.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]
 * During the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge there are 11 construction workers died, including 10 on the same day.
 * In films, the bridge is a "grateful" victim. No bridge is so often collapsed in films such as the Golden Gate Bridge.