Tuesday, January 28, 2014

San Francisco .....part II


San Francisco Bay region is home to approximately 7.15 million people.  The nine-county Bay Area contains many cities, towns, airports, and city, state, and national parks that are connected by a network of roads, highways, railroads, bridges, tunnels and commuter rail such as BART and Amtrak lines. Picture from Wikipedia


Although Golden Gate Bridge is the most famous there are four more in the Bay area that locals and tourists use in their daily commutes.
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge also known as the Bay Bridge is a complex of bridges and the direct road route between San Francisco and Oakland. It opened to traffic on November 12, 1936. During the 1989 earthquake a section of the upper deck collapsed onto the lower deck and the bridge was closed for a month. The new bridge opened September 2, 2013 and is currently the world's widest bridge.

Morning commuters on BART’s blue line (Dublin to Daly City).


San Francisco has a vast public transportation system but most of the commuters still prefer using their cars.

2 comments:

  1. Those amazing clear skies! Looks a bit crowded there!

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    1. Although 7 million people reside in the Bay thus crowded, it is a very charming city.

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