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Show San Francisco Aqueduct Rivals Famous Bridges SAN FRANCISCO. San Francisco has a third bridge with as impres-, impres-, sive a record as the more famous Golden Gate and San Francisco-Oakland Francisco-Oakland Bay bridges the Third and Channel aqueduct city engineers revealed recently. This little drawbridge the heaviest heavi-est single-leaf bascule ever constructed con-structed is rated an unlimited load limit Since its dedication in 1933, more than 77,000,000 cars have passed over its span and its gates have been raised more than 177,000 times to allow ships to move up and down stream. An average of 1,800 cars an hour has been established until recently, recent-ly, even greater than the bay bridge figure. |