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The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, known locally as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries about 260,000 vehicles a day on its two decks. It has one of the longest spans in the United States.[1]

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The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is fully featured in Bound and Buried, first featured in 2 days after people where the show says it and the Golden Gate Bridge are strangely silent.

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The bridge is strangely silent.

It introduce the bridge and its history when in 1933, engineers solved the distance problem by building a series of bridges, the front being a causeway section, a cantilever in the middle, and a double suspension design on the deepest part over the channel. It also featured some designs on the new bolts, plates, and steel after a section collapsed in 1989 earthquake. After the introduction, the show simply said dust is the only traffic on the bridge.

It only took 2 years for the first event of the Oakland Bay Bridge when a cargo ship broke free from its line after gaining stress from the wind and waves. Steven S. Ross stated that when it was propelled toward the Bay Bridge within the San Francisco Bay, it will cause the ship to slam into the concrete base of the Bay Bridge, holing the hull. But for the cargo ship, after slamming into the concrete base, sinks after central hull is damage and snaps in half.

In 100 years after people, due to being located in a more dryer and warmer location, it can slow down rust thus outlasting the Golden Gate Bridge. But the moisture triggers the growth of vegetation within the spans. Steven S. Ross commented that the Bay Bridge will become a forest with lots of trees and vegetation. Without maintenance, the dirt clogs the expansion joints, causing the joints to gain no movement, and so one span of the bridge collapse to the deck.

The final known event of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is within 200 years when debris from the San Francisco Bay (such as old ships) have cause to built up around the piers, forming a permanent passage from the obstruction within the concrete base of the bridge. Steven S. Ross stated it will create land by creating an obstruction where the natural silt flows in the bay will start piling up against the mess turning the area into an island or a peninsula. It is unknown how long the Bay Bridge last, but it will continue to thrive.

Trivia[]

  • The Eastern Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was fully replaced in 2013.[2]
    • Oddly enough, the replacement has already started when the episode was first produced, which comments on the state of the bridge at the time of airing.

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