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Re: View of SF bridge Posted on: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:06:42 GMT


"Dennis P. Harris" wrote in message
news:v8ptj2tvj2ua9l9d5iermnhbn16paef84r@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:33:55 -0700 in rec.travel.usa-canada, SMS
> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, and Dustin Hoffman is lucky to be alive after driving across the
>> top deck from San Francisco to Oakland, since the bottom deck is the
>> eastbound deck.
>
> at the time the movie was made the top deck was 2 way, and the
> lower deck was for trucks & trains.


Nope....check out the movie - all the traffic on that top deck is going in
the same direction.

The one way traffic on each level - west bound on the upper, east bound on
the lower - was inaugurated in 1958, as per:

http://www.baybridgeinfo.org/Display.aspx?ID=26

The Graduate was released in 1967. Check it out.