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'''Maintenance workers hang precariously over bay in 1994.''' ''Photo: Rick Gerharter'' | '''Maintenance workers hang precariously over bay in 1994.''' ''Photo: Rick Gerharter'' | ||
'''Lewis Mumford on the Bay Bridge:''' | |||
''"The Bay Bridge, between San Francisco and Oakland, brought far greater damage than benefits to both cities: it pumped up a once unnecessary volume of private traffic between them, at a great expense in expressway building and at a great waste in time and tension, spent crawling through rush-hour congestion. This traffic eventually wiped out, by impoverishment, the excellent rapid transit that had been installed on the Bay Bridge [the Key System] a form of transportation that the citizens of San Francisco have now repentantly voted to restore [the BART system], at an expense far greater than the cost of the original system. The ferry ride across the bay from Oakland was one of the regions greatest recreational resources — an incomparable experience, so exhilarating, at almost any time of the day, that one often sought an excuse for making the journey. It was not a long ride — not more than twenty-five minutes or so, and certainly not longer than the present depressing rush-hour crawl over the bridge."'' | |||
-- Lewis Mumford, 1963 | |||
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Revision as of 23:37, 13 August 2008
Workers on the Bay Bridge in 1935. Photo: San Francisco History Room, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
Photographs of the Bay Bridge under construction in 1935 and in 1994.
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Maintenance workers hang precariously over bay in 1994. Photo: Rick Gerharter
Lewis Mumford on the Bay Bridge:
"The Bay Bridge, between San Francisco and Oakland, brought far greater damage than benefits to both cities: it pumped up a once unnecessary volume of private traffic between them, at a great expense in expressway building and at a great waste in time and tension, spent crawling through rush-hour congestion. This traffic eventually wiped out, by impoverishment, the excellent rapid transit that had been installed on the Bay Bridge [the Key System] a form of transportation that the citizens of San Francisco have now repentantly voted to restore [the BART system], at an expense far greater than the cost of the original system. The ferry ride across the bay from Oakland was one of the regions greatest recreational resources — an incomparable experience, so exhilarating, at almost any time of the day, that one often sought an excuse for making the journey. It was not a long ride — not more than twenty-five minutes or so, and certainly not longer than the present depressing rush-hour crawl over the bridge."
-- Lewis Mumford, 1963
Aerial view of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge under construction in 1935. Photo: San Francisco History Room, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA