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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- This is Part 2 of an 2-part bridge odyssey, where I do an hour-long walk on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
In my Part 1 video, I drive across several bridges I encountered while driving around the San Francisco Bay area and also the Central Valley.
I enjoyed watching this - Thank-You!
Very informative and entertaining video. Thank you for posting.
Very nice footage, thanks for sharing.
Awesome video. My only trip to San Fran was in the fall of 2019 before the pandemic. I drove on the Golden Gate as well as Bay Bridge later on my way to Berkeley. I vividly remembered stoping at the same rest stop by the Golden Gate 👍
Nice video and commentary. In 1966 I walked the entire length, from south end to north end and back. In 1969 I did the same thing on a bicycle. What a beautiful structure! Back then there was no ugly chain-link fencing to thwart jumpers. Do you know why fencing was installed in some, but not all, places when you were there?
I run the bridge every couple weeks 3.44 miles to the other side and back then go hiking on the trails around the bridge. I was just their last Friday.
In 2006-08 I moved from NY and had a great job in SF lived on Sutter St. in the city - loved it, nicest weather I’ve ever experienced - in 08 the economy collapsed (again) and I was laid-off with many others, I’m back in NY and miss SF, but from looks of things on news, it looks like the city is destroyed now anyway. Still - very beautiful place with great weather. Who knows what tomorrow brings …
yup. this country is in trouble
I work on Travis AFB, live in Vacaville. You were right by me last month. About a month or longer you will get a toll bill in the mail for crossing the bridge. I believe its $9.00.
Living 4 Christ, yes, I fully anticipate getting a bill from Enterprise for all the bridge tolls incured by me using their car.
Speaking of Travis, I went there right after walking the GG bridge. I will soon start editing video I took at the Travis Air museum.
If you watch one of the "Making of" features for the DVD/Blu-ray of the Bond movie "A View to a Kill", the city of San Francisco let the director and special effects director go up in the north tower, all the way to the top. Very interesting. The director, sorry, I'm drawing a blank on his name, said it was unbelievably tight inside the tower. Too bad they don't do tours of the bridge and towers. Of course, I don't live in California, anymore, so it would be difficult to get there for a tour. Also, at 70, it would be difficult for me, physically, to make the climb to the top of one of the towers, let alone both. My claustrophobia would make it difficult, as well.
I really enjoyed the two videos. It's like being right there with you. Have you done a bridge video before?? Or is this your first time doing this?
Lindsay Moore, I have done a lot of "Bridge Odyssey" videos.
At 28:50, you mentioned "things to make it more attractive". Sorry, I disagree. When cables come down from the tower, they must be solidly anchored to bedrock or some such other rock. Those cables enter the ground at the cable anchors, and then continue at a 45 degree angle to the rock anchor, which is directly at the bottom of those "attractive" blocks. The whole concrete structure is hollow, needed for maintenance work. The blocks also add weight to the rock anchor, forcing stress downward into the ground, making the cables more sturdy. Just before the cables are anchored into the rock, there are tension rods to control expansion and contraction of the cables caused by temperature and wind changes.
Monk Tridge, I meant that, as with so many aspects of this bridge, cosmetic flourishes were incorporated. Those apparently superfluous concrete protuberances (caps) would not have needed to be the way they are for purely reasons of weight. There is no way that their own weight would make any difference to the bridge's strength or stability. Certainly the concrete structures below the caps are important. Allowing workers access to inside those concrete towers could have been more economically done with trapdoors or something, rather than duplication of the shapes of the cable anchor tower caps. But the designers realized that doing it with symmetrical caps would look much better. Indeed, this is documented in one (at least) of the many books I have that relate details of the bridge design.