The Golden Gate Bridge’s name isn’t from the Gold Rush. It actually comes from the Golden Gate Strait. Explorer John C. Frémont named it in the mid-1800s. The term “Golden Gate” means a ...

The Golden Gate Bridge suicide net appears to be working and is doing what it's intended to do – reduce the number of deaths at the bridge. A driver crashed into a toll booth on the Golden ...

Despite their city's obvious need to expand, a number of San Franciscans opposed Joseph Strauss' quest to build the Golden Gate Bridge. Their reasons ranged from the practical to the emotional.

The Golden Gate Bridge's vaulting, orange arches amidst the rocky seascape of the San Francisco Bay have made it one of the West Coast's most enduring symbols and the city's most popular tourist ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The Golden Gate Bridge is one of several Bay Area spans that face “unknown levels of risk of collapse,” according to a new report from the National Transportation and ...

He asked Moisseiff to serve on a board of consultants to the Golden Gate Bridge. Moisseiff, who by that time had become a heavyweight in bridge design theory, publicly loaned support to Strauss ...

A new report compiled after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore shows that San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and four other Bay Area spans may be vulnerable to collapse from a ship ...

Soon after, The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway, & Transportation District, the agency responsible for the iconic suspension bridge’s maintenance, solved the mystery: The sound was due to high winds ...

In addition to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland, they include iconic landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in California, the Brooklyn Bridge in New York and the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan.

Early evidence indicates that the installation of safety nets on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco has been successful in reducing the number of suicides at the bridge. The results ...

The NTSB said the State of Maryland never ran a risk calculation on the Francis Scott Key Bridge - if it had, it would have been aware of the potential dangers. The Golden Gate Bridge is one of ...