The Importance Of The Golden Gate Bridge In The World

The Golden Gate Bridge is a major tourist attraction in San Francisco, California. It is one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. It’s also the top suicide location in the world.The Golden Gate Bridge is a symbol of Northern California. The bridge serves as a means of transportation.

The Golden Gate Bridge is located across the San Francisco Bay in San Francisco, California. Construction began January 5, 1933, and the bridge opened to the public May 28, 1937. The bridge connects the city of San Francisco's northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County, California. It took approximately 4 years to construct The Golden Gate. The bridge was built so they wouldn't have to use ferries to cross over the water. The bridge still exists today. The bridge has approximately 120,000 visitors each day.

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge, one of the longest in the world. A suspension

bridge is a bridge that hangs from cables that are made of tiny steel wires. Most bridges nowadays use a box section roadway supported by high tensile stress cables.A steel wire 0.1 inch thick can support up to half a ton without breaking. Therefore, the 80,000 miles of wire on the golden gate bridge can support many of tons. Light and strong suspension bridges can span distances from 2,000 to 7,000 feet longer than any other kind of bridge. A suspension bridge suspends the roadway from huge main cables, that extend to the other side of the bridge. Theses cables rest on top of towers and have to be securely anchored into the bank at both ends of the bridge.
Compression and tension are the two forces that act on suspension bridges. Compression stress is the stress on materials that leads to a smaller volume. Tension stress is the state of being stretched tightly. Compression and tension work together to hold up some of the world's longest spans.These forces can work together by canceling each other out where a section of the bridge is compressed and where another force from another direction can make the member stretch back.
The Golden Gate Bridge is 3 miles long and 1 mile wide. With six lanes of US 101 and California State Route 1. The Golden Gate Bridge is maintained by Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District. The highest point on the bridge is 746 feet high. The designers of the bridge are Joseph Strauss, Irving Morrow, and Charles Ellis. The Gold Gate Bridge was marked as a historical landmark on June 18, 1987. The Golden Gate Bridge became the San Francisco designated landmark on May 21, 1999.
At the time of its construction in the 1930s, the Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world.

In her essay,”Importance of the Golden Gate Bridge,” Stephanie Stiavetti suggest that “It maintained this point of pride for nearly 25 years until the Verrazano- Narrows Bridge was built in New York in 1964. Today, this historic San Francisco landmark holds its place as the second largest suspension bridge in the country, behind Verrazano Narrows.” Back then, experts thought that it would be impossible to build a bridge across the tides and currents in that area because strong currents and tides would make construction extremely difficult and dangerous. The water is over 500 feet deep in the center of the channel, and along with the area's strong winds and thick fog, the idea of building a bridge there seemed nearly impossible. Despite all of the problems of building the bridge, Joseph Strauss was named as lead engineer for the project. Construction began January 5, 1933, and in the end cost more than $35 million to

build.
California's unpleasant San Andreas Fault passes through the north to the south of the Bay area, passing the Golden Gate a short distance out to sea. Charles Ellis sounded a confident note in a 1929 lecture to the National Academy of Sciences:
"If I knew that there was to be an earthquake in San Francisco tomorrow and I couldn't get into an airplane and had to remain in the city, I think I should get a piece of clothesline about 1,000 or 2,000 feet long, and a hammock, and I would string it from the tops of two of the tallest redwoods I could find, get into the hammock and feel reasonably safe. If this bridge were built at that time, I would tie me to the center of it, and while watching the sun sink into China across the Pacific, I would feel content with the thought that in case of an earthquake, I had chosen the safest spot in which to be." Big problem factors in building the Golden Gate Bridge were having to be ready for earthquake at any moment because the bridge goes through The San Andreas Fault and the strong winds and currents because they were difficult for humans to work against.
For the men who did construction, it was a life changing experience. In her essay,”Life on The Gate: Working on the Golden Gate Bridge 1933-37,” Amy Standen states that “It was the middle of the Great Depression, getting a job on the Golden Gate Bridge was like winning the lottery.The conditions, above and below the water, were ‘atrocious’. Divers faced powerful currents as they helped anchor the massive concrete bridge support onto the ocean floor and up on the towers, workers stuffed newspapers in their jackets to keep warm.” Building The Golden Gate Bridge wasn’t easy since there were many challenges for the people building it especially because of the bad weather conditions.
The Golden Gate Bridge is a bridge that constructed 1933 in San Francisco, California to make a safe way of crossing over The San Francisco Bay and The Pacific Ocean instead of taking ferries. The building of this bridge was quite difficult but it got done. The Golden Gate Bridge is such an important bridge because it was an easier safer way of transportation and it’s a historical landmark. The Golden Gate Bridge is still used to this very day for the same purposes.