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The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was a project of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, an agency that started under Hoover but became part of FDR's New Deal efforts to improve the country's infrastructure.

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Said former President Herbert Hoover on opening day.

“...this is the greatest bridge yet constructed.”

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Carried 270,000 vehicles a day.

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Opened  November 12, 1936 - Closed August 28, 2013

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Opened  November 12, 1936 - Closed August 28, 2013

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With its eight-mile span, touching San Fransisco and Oakland the Bay Bridge was at that time the longest bridge in the world.

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Started 1933 and constructed in 1936, the bridge was used to support the increase of automobiles and public transit lines in the early half of the 20th century.

When the two-level bridge was originally built, it was designed to help with automobile traffic, which was on the top level and trains and trucks on the bottom.

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The bridge has been recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers as a nationally significant structure from the standpoint of engineering as well as its importance in the transportation history of California and the nation.

Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is significant for its influence in the California Bay Area.