San Francisco: Yerba Buena Island - Dwight D. Eisenhower Highway
The landscape around Yerba Buena Island is defined by steep, scrub-covered slopes rising from San Francisco Bay, which have shaped both the built environment and local life. The island is the central link in the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, whose roadway carries Interstate 80 across the bay in two distinct sections. The 1936 western span runs from San Francisco to Yerba Buena Island; the eastern span, rebuilt after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, continues to Oakland and opened in 2013. The island’s tunnel is a defining engineering feature of the route. Immediately north, Treasure Island was constructed for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. Together, bridge, island and open bay place this compact landform at the centre of a major urban crossing.
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