- Sun May 27, 2012 11:26 pm
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(That guy has balls of steel
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Opening day for cars, May 28, 1937.
1962
Construction began on January 5, 1933, and continued until May of 1937. Each of the 746 towers contains some 600,000 rivets. The bridge weighs 887,000 tons, including 83,000 tons of steel.The twin support cables, each a bundle of much smaller wires wrapped 36 inches thick, contain 80,000 miles of wire.Twelve men died during the bridge’s construction.
The Golden Gate Bridge opened to automobile traffic on May 28, 1937, a day after it opened only to foot traffic with Pedestrian Day, which saw some 200,000 people walk the span. Since that day in 1937, nearly 2 billion cars have crossed the bridge and the toll has risen from 50 cents to $6, collected only when driving southbound into San Francisco. That toll helps fund the bridge and roadway maintenance. Some 34 painters and 16 ironworkers work full time, constantly touching up the International Orange paint job and replacing rivets and repairing steel where necessary.
On average, 112,000 cars cross the bridge each day, though 10 days after the devastating Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, a record 162,414 vehicles made the journey. Despite the widespread destruction from that event, the Golden Gate Bridge performed flawlessly as the engineers intended.
(That guy has balls of steel
)Opening day for cars, May 28, 1937.
1962
Last edited by max.thunder on Thu May 31, 2012 5:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Tanner is alive and he wants revenge.The story will continue in Moscow (the russians bought the stolen cars).
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