High Street Bridge | |
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.jpg) Aerial view in 2010 | |
| Coordinates | 37°45′52″N 122°13′30″W / 37.7645°N 122.2250°W |
| Carries | Cars and trucks on High Street |
| Crosses | Oakland Estuary |
| Locale | San Francisco Bay Area |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Double-leaf bascule |
| Material | Steel |
| Total length | 250 ft (76 m) |
| Width | 37 ft (11 m) overall 24 ft (7.3 m) roadway 6 ft (1.8 m) sidewalk |
| Clearance above | 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) |
| Clearance below | 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) (high tide) 21 ft (6.4 m) (low tide) |
| No. of lanes | 2 |
| History | |
| Constructed by | Harrison Bridge Company |
| Opened | 1894, December 1939 |
| Rebuilt | 1901, 1939 |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | 30,000 |
| Location | |
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The High Street Bridge is a double-leaf bascule drawbridge spanning 296 feet of the Oakland Estuary in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States. It links the cities of Oakland and Alameda. The bridge is opened approximately 1,400 times annually and carries an average of 26,000 vehicles per year. It was built when the Oakland Estuary was trenched, converting Alameda from a peninsula to an island.
The High Street Bridge is one of the four bridges and two tunnels that allow access to Alameda.