The Golden Gate Bridge is world’s renowned suspension bridge in United States .This bridge has cables that are grounded at both ends supporting the roadway
It crosses the Golden Gate which is San Francisco Bay opening onto the Pacific Ocean and is connected to Marin country.
A welll known symbol of California and San Francicso is this great bridge.
It carries 6 lanes of pedestrians and bicycles. Even heavy trucks, buses and trains pass through the bridge.
Longest span : 1280 m
Total length : 2737 m
Width : 27m
Height : 227m
Vertical clearance : 4.3m
Clearance below : 67 m
While many experts felt hard to construct a bridge against fierce winds and dimming fog an engineer who came forward was Joseph Strauss .He was chief engineer responsible for the overall design and construction. Later many other experts like Irving Morrow planned the overall configuration of bridge towers, streetlights, lighting scheme ,walkways and Charles Alton Ellis exercised theoretical and technical work that built the bridge , Leon Moisseiff proposed suspension cables.
The construction of bridge was completed in a decade. The bridge was opened on 27 May 1937. The bridge is painted in international orange colour so that it is visible in fog.
Golden Gate Park located in California, San Francisco is a prominent urban park(1017 acres) in a shape similar to rectangle with 13 million visitors every year.
The credit goes to all the persons and engineers who are involved in the construction of Golden gate Bridge facilitating a way between California and San Francisco.
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