"There's a surreal serenity atop the world's longest self-anchored, single-tower suspension bridge, crowned by a thick blanket of fog more than 500 feet above the rippling tides off Yerba Buena Island's eastern shore. From here, the nearly 300,000 daily commuters below who cross the newest, asymmetrical side of the Bay Bridge look like a frenetic ant highway, as 15 mph winds blow towards the perennial stack of vibrant shipping containers that frame the Port of Oakland."
""They put parapet walls up there and a little inspector standing on the top of the bridge," Ney said. While the roof was originally intended to be flat, he said there was still time and money in the budget for a moment of inspiration. "When our designers saw that, it was so compelling we redesigned the top of the bridge.""
A panoramic vantage sits atop the world's longest self-anchored, single-tower suspension bridge, often shrouded in fog more than 500 feet above Yerba Buena Island. Nearly 300,000 daily commuters traverse the asymmetrical eastern span, where 15 mph winds sweep toward the Port of Oakland's stacked shipping containers and barges drift beneath the 1.4-mile skyway as Coast Guard patrols recede past Treasure Island. The eastern span replacement followed the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, took about 24 years and $6.5 billion to complete, and reopened in 2013 as California's most expensive public works project. A late design tweak added parapet walls and an inspector motif inspired by a Popular Mechanics cover, altering the originally flat tower roof.
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