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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay onto the Pacific Ocean. As part of both U.S. Route 101 and State Route 1, it connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County.[1]

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Documentary[]

In the documentary, the Golden Gate Bridge is first seen in the 25 years segment when one of the grizzly bears crossed the roads, over the bridge.

It was then featured in 50 years after people after the Brooklyn Bridge. The documentary stated that the Golden Gate Bridge was protected at all times by a vigilant brigade of 17 iron workers and 38 painters. The segment is ended by Alan W. Pense stating that without maintenance cables begin to rust, paint peels off, wires begin to break, and one point it all gone down.

GoldenGateBridgeTowerFalls

The Northern Tower breaks off and falls into the Golden Gate.

In 100 years after people, after the collapse of Brooklyn Bridge, the documentary questions how do bridges fail before answering itself that once corrosion starts, the wires begin to crack. Alan W. Pense also answers that the cables tend to shred and fail, and with the individual strands starts to fail, it will cause a cascading series of wires begin to break. The Golden Gate Bridge can survive the weakening of one of its vertical cables, but once two or three fails, the whole bridge was in jeopardy and twisted steel crashes into the waters below, breaking off the top of the Northern Tower in the process. Alan W. Pense doubt that the Golden Gate Bridge will last 200 years, as it is in the drink. It was then commented on as a remark on how the largest structures have failed.

Bound and Buried[]

In Bound and Buried, the Golden Gate Bridge is featured starting in 2 days after people when both itself and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge are strangely silent.

The Golden Gate Bridge is explained as an engineering marvel and crossed by 108,000 cars every day. Now, only the silent assassin is crossing the bridge. Steven S. Ross stated that it will die by fog due to the moisture in the fog itself. He continues that it condense on the bridge and promote the formation of rust.

In 100 years after people, the crucible steel of the Golden Gate Bridge is continually being humbled by common oxygen. Steven S. Ross stated that the bridge that painted rust in red would be rust-rust but it a same color. The dense fogs feed the rust threatening the point of highest stress, the vertical cables that bear the crushing weight of the deck. Steven S. Ross stated that the roadway is not designed to support itself and meant to suspended from the cables. The failure of one cable then quickly triggers others around it, and unsupported, the roadway plunges 245 feet into the waters of the bay.

In 200 years after people, only the skeletal specter of the Golden Gate Bridge soaring towers remains. It is unknown how long the towers will last.

Trivia[]

  • When the bridge was seen again in the 200 years segment in Bound and Buried, it was shown that the Southern Tower broke off instead of the Northern Tower.
  • In the collapse sequence, The Northern Tower that fell in the documentary was mostly omitted in the episode, besides the intro. Half of the deck is left dangling, and the tower similarly fell in the end anyway.

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