Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden gate bridge is a suspension type of bridge. It spans across the San Francisco bay on the western part of the United States, off the Pacific coastline. The Golden Gate Bridge connects the city of San Francisco to the bay side town of Sausalito, California.

The bridge is one point seven miles in length, is four thousand, two hundred feet between each tower and has a clearance of two hundred and twenty feet from the water. The two towers rise seven hundred and forty six feet above the water.

The Golden Gate Bridge is the largest suspension bridge in the world when it was built on May twenty seventh, nineteen thirty seven. It has remained the worldly symbol of San Francisco through today.

Joseph Strauss was an engineer that created over 400 drawbridges and was the person responsible for getting the Golden Gate Bridge built. He went through three designs before finalizing his creation and he spent over a decade to drum up support to even get started on the concept. He got the help of Irving Morrow for architectural design and engineer Charles Alton Ellis and bridge designer Leon Moisseiff who did the entire math work needed to make a sound and usable bridge.

The financing was incorporated by the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District which was founded in the year nineteen twenty eight. The bridge was completed in April of the year nineteen thirty seven and opened up to pedestrians a little over a month later. On the day after the walk on pedestrian day, President Roosevelt pressed a magic button in Washington D.C. that signaled motor vehicles could go across the bridge.

During the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge eleven people were killed. There was a safety net in place during the construction process that saved nineteen lives. Ten of the eleven people that died during construction was because a scaffolding hit and broke the safety net taking all ten lives at once. This was right at the end of the completion of the bridge. The survivors of the construction are now a part of the informal ‘Halfway to Hell Club’.

On October first, nineteen eighty three the speed limit on the bridge was reduced to forty five miles per hour from fifty five miles per hour. This was to reduce the force of a head on collision by approximately one point five times the impact and thus reduced the chance of death in a vehicle accident. On September first, two thousand and two the toll for going across the Golden Gate Bridge was raised from three dollars to five dollars. This is just more proof of how corrupt and greedy the humans on this planet are.

There have been over one thousand three hundred suicides from jumping off of the Golden Gate Bridge since it was built. The leap of faith takes about four seconds to reach the water and you make contact at approximately seventy five miles per hour. There have been only thirty or so people that have survived the jump and boy did they feel stupid for not succeeding in their plan. All it got them was a lot of jail time and counseling. One man supposedly made the jump and not only lived, but swan to shore and went to a doctor the next day. That doctor stated that this was one of the healthiest men he had ever examined.

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