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4worldlovers: While it took a half-century of traffic growth to require a bridge to replace the ferries crossing the Carquinez Strait between Benicia and Martinez, it took only a couple of decades for ballooning traffic on Interstates 680 and 780 to overwhelm the Benicia-Martinez Bridge, also known as the George Miller Jr. Bridge.


To accommodate the growth, the Bay Area Transit Authority (BATA) and Caltrans completed a second, parallel span that carries five lanes of northbound traffic. The toll plaza on the bridge features Northern California's first open road tolling system, allowing FasTrak customers to travel through the toll plaza at freeway speeds.

In 2009, the original span of the Benicia-Martinez was seismically retrofitted, and then converted to carry four lanes of southbound traffic.