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4worldlovers: The Richmond-San Rafael Bridge has served the needs of North Bay travelers for more than 60 years.


Access to the bridge was significantly improved with the completion in 2001 of the Richmond Parkway. This 7.5-mile, four- to six-lane roadway provides bridge users with a direct connection to Interstate 80 near Pinole. Bay Area Transit Authority (BATA)-funded trestle and fender rehabilitation and deck replacement was completed in 2006.


How many bikes and pedestrians have crossed the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge trail since November 2019? What times of day do most bikes and pedestrians make the trip?

Completed projects on the Richmond-San Rafael ease congestion and making bicycle and pedestrian traffic safer along the bridge.

The bicycle and pedestrian path across the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge is part of the 500-mile San Francisco Bay Trail.

4worldlovers: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is the region's workhorse bridge, carrying more than a third of the traffic of all of the state-owned bridges combined. It is also a jewel along the San Francisco waterfront.


The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is made up of two bridge segments: a skyway structure/single anchored suspension bridge between Oakland and Yerba Buena Island, and a suspension span from the island to San Francisco. Connecting the two is the largest diameter bore tunnel in the world.


The design of the new East Span — which opened in September 2013 — features a single-tower, self-anchored suspension bridge for the segment of the bridge that crosses the shipping channel, and a skyway structure over the shallower waters close to the Oakland shore.


The bike path and sidewalk along Macalla Road between the Vista Point on Yerba Buena Island and Treasure Island are now open seven days a week from sunrise to sundown.

Seismic retrofit of the West Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was completed in 2004. The original East Span was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and subsequently repaired. The replacement East Span opened on September 2, 2013.

How many bikes and pedestrians have used the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge path since November 2016? What times of day do most bikes and pedestrians travel the path?

The Bay Lights installation – made of 25,000 LEDs and designed by artist Leo Villareal – lit up the Bay Bridge from 2013 (to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Bay Bridge) through 2023.