San Francisco Bridge in HD (High Definition), Unedited

http://www.bahiphop.com/ - ZTY MEDIA video footage of the San Francisco / Oakland Bay Bridge in the Bay Area, California shot from the embarcadero facing East. Filmed by Shaun Tai using a JVC GZ-HD3, HD Everio HDD camcorder.

Please watch this video in HIGH QUALITY.

The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge (legally The James "Sunny Jim" Rolph Bridge and known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a multi-structure toll bridge complex that spans San Francisco Bay and links the California cities of Oakland and San Francisco in the United States, as part of Interstate 80. It carries approximately 270,000 vehicles per day.

Conceived as early as the gold rush days, construction on the bridge did not begin until 1933. Designed by Charles H. Purcell, it opened for traffic on November 12, 1936, six months before the Golden Gate Bridge.

The bridge consists of two major bridges connecting each shore with Yerba Buena Island, a natural outcropping located mid-bay. The western crossing, from San Francisco to the island, consists of two suspension bridges end-to-end with an anchorage, plus three shorter truss spans connecting the San Francisco landing to the western cable anchorage located on Rincon Hill. The eastern span between Yerba Buena Island and Oakland consists of a double-tower cantilever span, five medium-span truss bridges, and a 14-section truss causeway. These east bay structures are scheduled to be replaced by an entirely new crossing, which is under construction. On Yerba Buena Island, the crossing consists of a short concrete viaduct at the west span's cable anchorage, a tunnel through the island's rocky central hill, another short concrete viaduct, and a longer curved high-level steel truss viaduct that leads to the eastern span.

The toll plaza on the Oakland side (now for westbound traffic only) has twenty toll lanes, of which eight are dedicated FasTrak lanes. Two bus-only lanes bypass the toll booths and metering lights around the right (north) side of the toll plaza. The two far left toll lanes are operated as high-occupancy vehicle lanes during weekday morning and afternoon commute periods. Since the number of lanes in the San Francisco approach is structurally restricted, backups are frequent in this direction during evening rush hour. During the morning commute hours, some of the Bay Area's worst traffic congestion stretches from the Oakland approach back onto feeder highways, especially Interstate 80 toward Richmond, California. The bridge is currently restricted to motorized freeway traffic; pedestrians, bicycles, and other non-freeway vehicles and devices are not allowed. However, a California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) bicycle shuttle operates during peak commute hours for $1.00 each way.

The bridge has appeared in many films, including The Graduate, The Towering Inferno, Basic Instinct, and The Dead Pool. It has also appeared in such science fiction novels as William Gibson's futuristic Bridge trilogy and Cory Doctorow's novel Little Brother.

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[Dddddorian]

@eeocsfdo370 Dear Terry, Sorry to say, but not NOBODY, refers to that bridge as the San Francisco Bridge, as you say, there are millions of visitors to San Francisco that have been dissapointed, without saying so, then relieved, to find later that there is a big red bridge way across town. . I remember seeing the GG bridge from the elevator lobby of the Fairmont, long after thinking where is that big red bridge, which I could not see from my pano-view room. . . Cheers. from, daniel.

[Dddddorian]

Hello, it is not coming up as HD on my screen; what happened?

Cheers.

from

del-boy.

[eeocsfdo370]

Nice shot. Sorry to quibble, though, but NOBODY refers to it as the "San Francisco Bridge": it's the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge or (more commonly) the Bay Bridge.

[wonderglory]

Beautiful job.

[wieprz]

maybe it was hd but now its only hq

[soxpatsfan2412]

thats the western span, right?

[lolektm]

Hi. Could you tell my something more about recording this camera?

Possible is record in 1920x1080?

If not, so how did you make 16:9 picture in this movie?

please contact with me

[tweetie35]

that a nice ass view of the bridge ,but lol why post on youtube?? im just saying