The $1BN Race to Save The Golden Gate Bridge

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@TheB1M Жыл бұрын

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@tomkrasinski938 Жыл бұрын

@darkless60 Жыл бұрын

please just stop taking their money

@MichalCanecky Жыл бұрын

Scammer

@freetolook3727 Жыл бұрын

Stop the clicking noises. They're very annoying!

@AMindOfMyOwn87 Жыл бұрын

Stop taking MasterWorks money and misleading your subscribers/viewers! Just like FTX, MasterWorks is leveraging influencers to promote speculation. Sucks Fred Mills is ok doing this.

@jwdkamran Жыл бұрын

within budget and on time.... words you never hear anymore

@deceivingleek2 Жыл бұрын

My understanding is that is more because budget and timeline are shortened at proposal to make with project more appealing while everyone involved knows it will take longer and cost more. It's easier to say "We need more money to finish".

@CynicalDriver Жыл бұрын

Early even.

@thomasfholland Жыл бұрын

@@deceivingleek2 Just like here in Sweden

@ChaosDeary Жыл бұрын

And only 11 people had to die

@Knight_Kin Жыл бұрын

Most one off projects always run over estimates because the estimates tend to be under calculated in the long run. It depends on what it is and how much it was over run for it to be a problem. It's often times not that much of an issue.

@GLJosh Жыл бұрын

As much as the bridge is an incredible engineering feat, coming in ahead of schedule and under budget is a VASTLY more impressive feat.

@gubocci Жыл бұрын

So original

@GLJosh Жыл бұрын

@@gubocci Thanks!

@MarloSoBalJr Жыл бұрын

Having no worker unions at the time would help ya

@BenjaminCronce Жыл бұрын

Just means they over-budgeted, which is actually considered a bad thing for engineering projects. The original budget is meant to be a realistic lower bound if everything goes perfectly to plan.

@rickarmstrong4704 Жыл бұрын

Yes and it had seemingly few corners cut everything was calculated correctly and back of napkins and slide rules were the tools of the trade back then, it has stood the test of time atleast on a human scale, Integrity was in fashion for this build !

@J3scribe Жыл бұрын

Driving across the bridge for the first time after having seen it so often on TV or in movies for over 50 years was practically surreal. It was indeed real. And gorgeous. What an amazing feat of engineering and aesthetic beauty.

@skeetrix5577 Жыл бұрын

too bad the city has gone to complete shit

@CorkHorde Жыл бұрын

If you have the opportunity, hike up to SlackersHill / SCA trail - you'll get to see the bridge from above. 🙂

@DeanStephen Жыл бұрын

Great works of engineering are rarely also great works of art. My favorite exceptions are the St. Louis Arch and the Golden Gate Bridge.

@AnalisisPsiquiatrico Жыл бұрын

Oh, you must be talking about that bridge made of spaghetti, right? I've heard it's so wobbly that cars do the cha-cha while crossing it! But seriously, who needs a bridge when you can just use a trampoline to bounce across? Engineering and aesthetics? More like a bouncy castle for grown-ups! 😜

@rossmeldrum3346 Жыл бұрын

I have crossed it twice and both times I purposefully drove from north to south to get the effect of seeing it suddenly revealed after driving out of the tunnel. It's kind of like driving on a cloud.

@rimasrr1 Жыл бұрын

Buff architecture guy creates another masterpiece video.

@MihkelKukk Жыл бұрын

Based

@GeekyMedia Жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

@ActualDav Жыл бұрын

💪🏼💪🏼

@davidmedlin8562 Жыл бұрын

He is a beautiful man!

@mezzaninebrown Жыл бұрын

Link to his OF?

@DeanStephen Жыл бұрын

As I was sitting with a group of friends in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge enjoying a picnic brunch on the 50th anniversary, I wondered aloud if any city engineers had calculated the weight all the people were putting on the bridge deck. All my friends were positive they must have. I wasn’t and sure enough they hadn’t. It was the most weight the bridge had ever supported.

@dwc1964 Жыл бұрын

what fascinated me about that was how many more people can fit through a space without being enclosed in cars, that they even _outweigh the cars_

@elmagodelmaryahoo Жыл бұрын

But it WAS "supported" and didn't collapse, Dean....!!! 👌 Pursuant to this vid, current estimations are that the bridge can withstand an earthquake in _"the lower 8s."_ Anything above THAT, with its proximity to both the San Andreas & Hayward faults, then predictably, any damage to the Golden Gate will be THE LEAST of San Fran's worries....!!!! 😮 While engineers are well on their way to even stronger restructuring as we speak, the Classic MSM "fear mongering" IS *The New Normal.* 👎

@HyperBiker Жыл бұрын

How much does 800,000 people weigh?

@Nilguiri Жыл бұрын

@@HyperBiker About 60,000 tonnes. Although this was in the US, so you can probably double it.

@sunspot42 Жыл бұрын

@@HyperBiker They weren't all on the bridge at once. In fact most of them didn't even make it onto the bridge. 800,000 attended the celebration (80,000 were expected). 300,000 crossed the bridge, again not all of them were on the bridge at once. Still, there were tens of thousands on the bridge at any one time, and it definitely strained under the load. Fortunately, the thing was ridiculously overbuilt and didn't collapse.

@benwillvv Жыл бұрын

I used to commute to SF from Marin every day. Though the traffic sucked, the Golden Gate Bridge NEVER stopped amazing me. It, and the surroundings, are stunning.

@kimberlyperrotis8962 Жыл бұрын

Me, too, my whole career. How I loved seeing the fog drifting in across the bridge on my way home every afternoon!🙂

@markwalker3499 9 ай бұрын

I used to commute from Santa Rosa to south of Market, funny can't remember what year, but I do remember the toll had gone up from a quarter to 50 cents. And yes the traffic was horrible, 3 hours each way to go 50 miles, but, I never once lost the sensation of seeing it for the first time every time I see it.

@8avexp Жыл бұрын

My grandfather photographed the bridge in 1936 while it was under construction. He was on a boat ride and shot a whole roll of 35mm black and white film of the bridge as they approached it. They were just starting to install the sections for the roadway, moving away from each tower.

@ThunderSims Жыл бұрын

Do you have the picture by chance?

@strnglhld Жыл бұрын

VERY cool 😊

@KitOkunaru 8 ай бұрын

Should digitize it and post online for history keeping.

@Davidlhstennis Жыл бұрын

Omg! I’m from the town (Bethlehem) in Pennsylvania that made the steel for this bridge. I’m so glad you mentioned it. Bethlehem steel also supplied steel for the Chrysler Bldg, Empire State Bldg, Madison Square Garden, Rockefeller Ctr, GW Bridge and Verazzano Narrows Bridge just to name a few.

@michaelrmurphy2734 Жыл бұрын

Prefabricated sections or the raw structural steel itself? That it might have been half built in the East. WOW!

@Davidlhstennis Жыл бұрын

@@michaelrmurphy2734 I couldn’t tell you for sure.

@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO Жыл бұрын

@@Jack_Russell_Brown - The sections were to large (and long) to be shipped by train. And how? Across the Bay Bridge? The transcontinental railroad ended in Oakland. A ship makes perfect sense, because they probably sailed right up to the construction site and unloaded the sections and put them on barges/ used cranes and assembled them onsite (though I'm not sure, but this info can almost certainly be researched).

@ronswansonsdog2833 Жыл бұрын

I mean, isn’t your town famous for being … Bethlehem Steel? It’s kind of well known to most people.

@Davidlhstennis Жыл бұрын

@@ronswansonsdog2833 it is but I was born in 1994. One year before the steel closed. I didn’t even grow up with it so I didn’t think it was that well known across those nation or globe anymore.

@sierrapeaks Жыл бұрын

I never thought a “boring” topic like retrofits and repairs to existing infrastructure would be so interesting. Would love to see some more videos on it because my guess is that’s where the bulk of the infrastructure spending goes.

@JustRaiHere_2023 Жыл бұрын

Although growing up in the East Bay Area the Oakland Bay Bridge was always my favorite bridge, especially getting the opportunity to walk across it during the re-opening after the Loma Prieta earthquake, the Golden Gate holds a special place in my heart. It's even my desktop wallpaper. Me, I think it symbolizes the Bay Area so well - we face challenges head-on and overcome them. Thank you for another wonderful video!

@kimberlyperrotis8962 Жыл бұрын

My commute bus crossed over this bridge just minutes after the Loma Prieta earthquake. We were all holding our breath! We were stopped at a light in North Beach when it hit, and had no idea how much damage it had caused. We could only see a little window breakage along the edge of the Marina District, driving north on Lombard. I was glad I had left work on time that afternoon, it was one of the few times I ever did in my career. My colleagues spent the night on the 31st floor, or walked down the 31 flights of stairs, only to find all transport systems in chaos (most people who work in San Francisco commute from the rest of the Bay Area, which usually means crossing a bridge). All the way home to San Rafael, cars were pulled up on the 101 freeway, checking their tires, but the swaying was caused by aftershocks, not flat tires. Our poor cat was utterly terrified when we got home, and would jump onto me whenever an aftershock hit again, poor baby.

@photonjones5908 Жыл бұрын

I was in Santa Cruz, I'll never forget it. Perfect fall day, then the quake, The Sun went down on a war zone, smoke and dust rising everywhere. The full moon rose blood red. We spent the next two nights in the driveway, it seemed just too dangerous to go indoors.

@aidandawn2717 Жыл бұрын

During my 4 years of uni at USF I was lucky enough to ride my motorcycle across this bridge dozens and dozens of times. Always around sunset and always just for fun. I love you gg bridge

@shane-porter Жыл бұрын

Another fantastic video. I don’t tend to comment other than to say ‘great job, and keep ‘em coming’. Thank you.

@zainzain8679 Жыл бұрын

So you do tend to comment 😂

@strnglhld Жыл бұрын

@@zainzain8679 he was feeling chatty that day😅

@patthecat6491 Жыл бұрын

Built with Union labor! ❤

@farmerdave7965 9 ай бұрын

As a member of ATU, I approve of this message !

@christysellers9088 Жыл бұрын

This is one of the best videos I’ve seen by the B1M. Great history, graphics and fascinating present-day earthquake prevention plans. Thanks so much for making this!

@SirChickon Жыл бұрын

Imagine everyone in a city stays behind a project like the san francisco people AND back it up with their own property as collateral....

@opalyankaBG Жыл бұрын

It's indeed an impressive feat of engineering and construction. Walking across bridge is one of the most amazing things you can do in the USA.

@JeffDeWitt Жыл бұрын

A few years ago I drove Route 66, then heading up the California coast to San Francisco before heading east. The ONLY thing I did in San Francisco is drive over the Golden Gate, park my car, and then walk back and forth across the bridge. And yes, it is a very cool thing to do.

@lucasread1743 2 ай бұрын

@@JeffDeWittI did it too a while back and I agree, it’s AMAZING!

@jakemoeller7850 Жыл бұрын

Having hiked the Marin headlands, I have seen the Golden Gate Bridge from a vantage point that blew my mind. It is such a beautiful structure.

@kimberlyperrotis8962 Жыл бұрын

The view of the city, with the bridge in the foreground, from the Marin Headlands is a must-see! Having lived always in Marin, I always take visitors there first, then into the city.🙂

@Supt3100 Жыл бұрын

Simply fascinating! Thanks so much, B1M, for putting this video together.

@tjr4459 Жыл бұрын

It’s a remarkable structure and I never tire of seeing it anytime I visit SFO.

@figlexgonzalez3115 Жыл бұрын

This bridge is truly a monster. The size of the bridge in person is just mind blowing 👌🏻👌🏻 Yes, it is a lot of money being spent on making it safer and stronger but just think on the economic impact it will cause to the entire state and other states as well!

@omkarkulkarni9020 Жыл бұрын

Going to San Francisco and US for the first time in few days and this video drops!! So much excited to see this marvellous construction 🤩

@psfca Жыл бұрын

Have a great trip

@omkarkulkarni9020 Жыл бұрын

@@psfca Thanks 🙏🏽

@jeff__w Жыл бұрын

Make sure you go to the Marin Headlands (just to the west of the north end of the bridge) for spectacular views of the bridge and the City. You can take a short hike up Slacker Hill there but you don’t have to-you can just drive and take in the views.

@billfrancis7852 Жыл бұрын

The B1M rocks. Probably my favorite YT channel. Well produced, informative and entertaining. And the perfect length of time, around 10 minutes.👍

@tracyannbanks123_12 Жыл бұрын

It’s been really nice following this channel and they completely have the right concepts and amazing videos

@tracyannbanks123_12 Жыл бұрын

Id love to know you better, thats only if you dont mind cos you seems to be a nice and cool person

@BeirneHenry Жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed the wee history lesson here. Would love to see more videos showcasing past structures as well as future projects.

@philrabe910 Жыл бұрын

Not long after the arch flattening celebration '89ish, I rode my bike across the GGB to the Marin side and went below where the road deck slices across the leveled headland hilltop for a hundred meters. I was young and strong and able to balance on my bike and reach up to the deck trusses. Since I was on the solid ground, I could feel the bridge moving up and down gently in the wind... It was pretty unbelievable! Oh, for a smartphone!

@michaelrmurphy2734 Жыл бұрын

That is another unique feature. The headland was earthmoved to build the bridge. Where did the dirt go?

@arnepianocanada Жыл бұрын

I have as sheet music a popular song with piano accompaniment "The Golden Gate" from the 1910s. Its cover shows the already long-iconic Gate with no bridge yet evident.

@andrewmctigue4765 Жыл бұрын

Great video Fred! I loved meeting you in NYC yesterday

@bryanllewis Жыл бұрын

Fun to see this video popup as I just crossed the GG on my bike yesterday during a visit to Marin. An amazing structure!

@hgbugalou Жыл бұрын

Similar for this topic, I would be interested on a video for all the seismic retrofitting done by MS, TN, MO, and AR for the New Madrid fault. They did bridges across the MS river and countless smaller ones. You may also consider covering the repair job done on the Henando Desoto i40 bridge last year. The incident of finding the major crack was scary, but project to fix it was done incredibly well and incredibly fast. It is a very interesting engineering story your audience would love.

@scmarine843 Жыл бұрын

Memphis bridge

@ssmit129 Жыл бұрын

I live in San Francisco and commute north to Marin County via the Golden Gate Bridge daily. Love watching these videos on this iconic bridge!

@Eric_In_SF Жыл бұрын

It never gets old cross that bridge

@runswithraptors Жыл бұрын

How much do you pay daily just to cross?

@richardconway6425 Жыл бұрын

Just wondering, but how long does your commute take? And how far is it? I'm trying to imagine what the traffic must be like ... how do you stay sane having to do that every day? 😨

@piusx8317 Жыл бұрын

This and Brooklyn Bridge have to be the most famous bridges in the world. Also they're stunningly pretty

@Creamypie626 8 ай бұрын

The fact that it was finished within budget is already a marvel of engineering. Something modern engineers and politicians are incapable of replacating.

@josephf5036 Жыл бұрын

Amazing project of engineering. As you are aware ponte 25 de abril in Lisbon was built by the same engineers as the one in San Francisco. Exactly for the same purpose. To resist to the impact of a tsunami and a major earthquake

@lowend5566 Жыл бұрын

I'm just wondering where you think the Federal government will get $400m if not from taxes. All it means is that the other 49 states will be chipping in rather than just the State.

@bennordstrom Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was such a strange statement that he made.

@strangeluck Жыл бұрын

Yes, that was a really weird way to couch pushing half the retrofit cost onto the nation's taxpayers. 🙄

@MalteseKat 13 күн бұрын

California has a GDP of 4.8 trillion. It never requests federal aid for anything.

@MalteseKat 13 күн бұрын

@@strangeluckCalifornia has a GDP of 4.8 trillion they don't need federal aid. They never asked for it. Please come get your family off of our streets. We will give you a one-way ticket home.

@ALLOFTHEBOOST 9 ай бұрын

I love watching B1M. So informative and interesting. I love how these structures were made many many years ago.

@TheLemon333 Жыл бұрын

So rad that thing can be upgrded the way it has. Quality bulild. The narrator is great too. Animate and clear. Nice video!

@HeisenbergFam Жыл бұрын

"unless you look to Hollywood" This sentence is enough to strike fear into your heart, Hollywood is quite a peculiar sight to witness

@PazzoLucas Жыл бұрын

Great video but I implore your to reconsider having masterworks as sponsorship. The Plain Bagel did a great video on the problems with this kind of investment, and I stress you don't fall foul of the recent events of FTX and KZfaqrs.

@ralmslb Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video and clarity of the sponsor segment.

@damonmcleod5734 Жыл бұрын

Loved the origin story part of this bridge as well as how it was presented in the video 🔥🔥🔥

@marshaldillon4387 Жыл бұрын

The Bridge is a must see. Walking on it is a thrilling experience. You must also visit Fort Point under the bridge on the San Francisco side. Lots of great old Cannons.

@ckm-mkc Жыл бұрын

The view from Marin, specifically Fort Baker is way better and no tourists....

@marshaldillon4387 Жыл бұрын

@@ckm-mkc Thanks I’ll give it a try

@McShagger1872 Жыл бұрын

Great video and grand structure. Would you consider cover some bridges nearer 'home'? There are 3 bridges crossing the Firth of Fourth between Edinburgh and Fife in Scotland that are also impressive. The Fourth rail bridge for example is an engineering marvel and the road bridge was the biggest in the world at the time of it's construction.

@johnfitzpatrick2469 Жыл бұрын

Hello from Sydney Australia. Always looking forward to the B1M. Spanning that distance, which will carry an enormous load: the iconic Golden gate!!! Defying gravity is not easy. ⛩️

@starcrib Жыл бұрын

Excellent commentary and video production 🟧♾️🟧

@dgianstefani5694 Жыл бұрын

"Federal government providing $400 million... means less money has to come from taxpayers" Where do you think the federal money comes from...

@WillFastie Жыл бұрын

Do you make your engineering analyses the same way you make your financial analyses? Federal money is taxpayer money. Period.

@Ed-xr9qt Жыл бұрын

He said "state budgets and taxpayers" you literal dolt.

@whiteboysixty5 Жыл бұрын

Meaning they don’t have to raise taxes to get funding for it

@dgianstefani5694 Жыл бұрын

@@whiteboysixty5 Again, where do you think state budgets come from.

@thenightcorereaper Жыл бұрын

@@Ed-xr9qt where do state budgets come from?

@SalihSabir Жыл бұрын

Yes Fred. More like this please. You are easier on the eye than you think 🤪❤

@adamkendall997 Жыл бұрын

Back off! I seen him first!

@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536 Жыл бұрын

❤

@DeviantDork Жыл бұрын

Learn to use a microphone

@mhughes1160 11 ай бұрын

Though an undercarriage cart collapsed and took part of the safety net with it the people who died were not in the safety net but on the cart The safety net which cost something like $250,000 + was credited for the workers feeling safer and working faster which was in part why the bridge was built faster they felt so safe the company issued a warning for workers to quit jumping into the net at the end of their shift

@elmagodelmaryahoo Жыл бұрын

Fabulous vid, B1M......👍

@bibekdas5595 Жыл бұрын

The B1m is the my favourite you tube channel

@word42069 Жыл бұрын

An equally impressive yet often overlooked bridge is the George Washington Bridge (GWB) between NJ and NYC! Completed in 1931 and still the busiest motor vehicle bridge in the world with 14 lanes!!

@nixonhoover2 Жыл бұрын

It's not a competition.

@JeffDeWitt Жыл бұрын

And not to forget the Mighty Mac, the Mackinac Bridge, connecting the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan. The only one of the world's great bridges that connects two rural areas.

@retrospct Жыл бұрын

What always blows my mind is really understanding the engineering feat in context of the time period made by those involved when bridging an impossible gap.

@jamesdoyle5405 Жыл бұрын

I was stationed on 2 different aircraft carriers in the early 1970's at Naval Air Station Alameda. When we went to sea or returned from cruise we went under that bridge. Outbound you knew all you loved was behind you and inbound feelings of joy was indescribable.

@tracyannbanks123_12 Жыл бұрын

It’s been really nice following this channel and they completely have the right concepts and amazing videos

@tracyannbanks123_12 Жыл бұрын

Id love to know you better, thats only if you dont mind cos you seems to be a nice and cool person

@REdgar66 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for covering this topic. We have so much work to do in order to bring the US transportation network into the 21st Century. All too often we are reminded of that need after the damage is done and lives are lost. When the “big one” come this of us living in California will be glad that we spent the time and the funds to ensure regions infrastructure survived.

@lucashipkins Жыл бұрын

Amazing video, thanks for sharing Fred.

@TheB1M Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@beaumershon3066 Жыл бұрын

@@TheB1M Find a different sponsor. Masterworks is equal to promoting crypto scams.

@kirandeepchakraborty7921 Жыл бұрын

Loved this documentary type episode. Really Amazing ❤

@darensavy5014 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant video mate 💪🙏

@bibekdas5595 Жыл бұрын

The B1m is the best of you tube

@donc-m4900 Жыл бұрын

16:17 "... and they are getting a lick of paint." I do believe they take a year to paint the entire bridge and then start over. Always painting.

@PeacefulPariah Жыл бұрын

correct

@Ajmc2014 Жыл бұрын

I remember when this sort of program used to be on TV. Love the B1M.

@DJJezzebella Жыл бұрын

I loved this piece that you did here on the Golden Gate as much as I enjoyed the piece on New York's Flatiron building. However the same issue came up on both pieces. The closed captioning was only available for the first few minutes of the segment? I noticed when it came back from the ads, the closed captioning text seized and when you go to look for it on the controls it's no longer there halfway through for some reason?

@laeihbvaljefhbvalejfhbv Жыл бұрын

Always love seeing my city being talked about! Thank you @bm1 ! Hopefully you can do more videos on the SF Bay Area 🙂💜

@kimberlyperrotis8962 Жыл бұрын

It’s one of the most beautiful places to live, says this lifelong Marin resident.🙂

@TheRangerBob Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile, in other parts of the broader San Francisco Bay area, there are eight other bridges. Those bridges too are important for the function of that whole region.

@beth7808 Жыл бұрын

They replaced the Eastern span of the Bay Bridge after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. That was the section that had a failure during the earthquake. Part of the upper deck collapsed onto the lower deck. The Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate are arguably the most important 2. The Dumbarton and San Mateo bridges are close enough to the bottom of the bay to drive around. The Richmond-San Rafael bridge is probably 3rd in importance.

@1slotmech Жыл бұрын

@@beth7808 Hwy 37 or Richmond / San Rafael? The bridge, please. Even with the useless bike lane on the upper deck taking up space.

@mikiqex Жыл бұрын

My favorite GGB fun fact is the towers, although both vertical, are about 2 inches farther apart at the top than the bottom due to the curvature of the Earth.

@AbuPaul 8 ай бұрын

Great video! Thank you for such incredible work.

@darinbauer8122 Жыл бұрын

I think B1M is going to get the Golden Bridge Broadcast Award! ❤

@frisk151 Жыл бұрын

It is simply amazing what these men (all of them, and the women who may have been involved) did that far ago... I know there are more than just a few who died during construction, and obviously suicide divers.... IF we could pull this off so long ago... We can certainly make it happen today... Hopefully with no injuries! Thanks for the video!

@Stop4MotionMakr Жыл бұрын

"On budget and ahead of time" is the real miracle 😂

@IAlwaysWantedToTryThat Жыл бұрын

Fun side note, the artist hired to draw the first structurally-accurate sketches of the Golden Gate Bridge was a guy named Chesley Bonestell. He went on to work with rocket scientists to sketch spacecraft and illustrate spaceflight concepts and the lunar surface. If you were around in the 70s or before, you've guaranteed seen his work.

@thomasfholland Жыл бұрын

Having grown up in California I’ve always loved seeing The Golden Gate Bridge in person. In the sunshine it’s beautiful red color with the greens and blues backgrounds in the spring are breathtaking. Like seeing the Sequoia Redwoods with their green needles and the deep blue skies in Sequoia National Park. (Redacted: And I still remember when I found out that the distance between the bases of the towers isn’t the same as the tops - due to the curvature of the earth! Take that flatearthers 😂 )

@GazMoby Жыл бұрын

Very enjoyable as usual 👍

@boti_depok Жыл бұрын

I like the sound o ur voice. So subtle, interesting tone of voice, relax. Though u re discussing some of the most complicated topics : engginering

@lanceglassgow3761 8 ай бұрын

The Golden Gate Bridge falling down is the least of San Francisco’s problems.

@rdgk1se3019 Жыл бұрын

Believe it or not......most parts for this bridge were transported by rail.....the Reading Company Railroad had a series of 50 railcars built to handle the odd shapes and sizes of the bridge materials.......also during construction the "Red Lead" coating had to be replaced with another less hazardous material because the workers doing the riveting were getting sick.

@bibekdas5595 Жыл бұрын

Love you bro

@sergiosaunier Жыл бұрын

Fred's sponsor plugs are getting ever more seamless. Great video as usual, by the way.

@theAverageJoe25 Жыл бұрын

I’m from the San Francisco Bay Area and anytime I’ve ever been to San Francisco I’ve always made it a point to walk across this beautiful landmark truly one of the wonders of the world

@goutamighosh-basu8543 Жыл бұрын

Bringing up romantic memories of 1998 with my husband Sam taking photos near Goldengate Bridge on our holiday trip to California , USA . 😂😁❤😂

@MercOne Жыл бұрын

Can't say enough about this channel. Just amazing content.

@peterferan4389 8 ай бұрын

The rubber lead dampers were developed in Christchurch New Zealand for our own earthquake problems. OK for horizontal displacement but if you get vertical displacement you can only hope that the structure doesn't collapse and squash somebody!

@MatthewWrighty Жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Be interested in similar ones for say - Tappan Zee, old and new, or the GW.

@krishnakant6545 Жыл бұрын

Hey B1M, could you maybe make a video on the recently unveiled world's highest railway bridge better known as Chenab bridge, in the UT of Jammu and Kashmir, India?

@javierpacheco8234 Жыл бұрын

This bridge is amazing, the engineering is amazing too.

@JordanCrawfordSF 9 ай бұрын

9:50: There’s a LOT of yoga here in San Francisco, but the stretch you did to get to today’s sponsor was the biggest stretch I have ever seen.

@henrypotter3024 Жыл бұрын

People in the USA will complain about what gets spent on infrastructure, then not even seem to notice the additional budget allocated to the DOD that went above what they even asked for and could have done the job of repairing all of america's bridges on its own.

@A-1622. 10 ай бұрын

“On budget and ahead of time” is really impressive when it comes to architecture’

@michaelrmurphy2734 Жыл бұрын

Ansel Adams took a photograph of the Golden Gate BEFORE the bridge was built. In the 1920s. Striking image!

@scittw22 Жыл бұрын

I could see a yellow and black color scheme actually working. If it was painted a golden yellow with the trim painted black it would give it a gilded age look. The name Golden Gate would be fitting in that scenario

@gomahklawm4446 Жыл бұрын

Has to do with the gold rush. Not gold the color.

@Nilguiri Жыл бұрын

Maybe, but it would look shite. Red and white would be more visible, anyway. That's why they paint lighthouses in red and white horizontal stripes.

@DeanStephen Жыл бұрын

The name is fitting now. “Golden Gate” is the name of the strait of water below the bridge. The name precedes the bridge by centuries.

@1slotmech Жыл бұрын

No. Just no.

@chrismontes5 Жыл бұрын

these masterworks adds are extremely annoying

@dustblowingman 6 ай бұрын

It's pretty cool that there is this much footage from nearly 100 years ago. Also amazing what they were able to do back then.

@rossmeldrum3346 Жыл бұрын

For anyone who has not driven across, I suggest you cross it from north to south to get the effect of seeing it suddenly revealed after driving out of the tunnel. It's kind of like driving on an orange cloud.

@NoName-zn1sb 8 ай бұрын

@funnymanindeed Жыл бұрын

Oh hey I made it for a fresh video

@DM-yj9qf Жыл бұрын

Gather 'round children: it's storytime with Fred.

@ROBLOXGamingDavid 3 ай бұрын

Throughout 1982 until 1986, the bridge's concrete deck is swapped out, in sections, with a steel orthotropic deck, all without closing down traffic. Not only did it save the bridge from corrosion and concrete spalling, but it reduces the weight of the bridge as well (by 12,300 tons (11,160 metric tons)). Imagine if they hadn't done that, then the deck would have seen a lot of cracks during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

@ASMRARTHOR Жыл бұрын

When San Francisco earthquake retrofitted Doyle Drive, the relatively flat 1 mile road leading up to the Golden Gate, it took 1 billion dollars. That’s over 100k$ for every foot of flat road. San Francisco has a tendency to not pay contractors until they take the city to court. This leads to overcharging in order to make up the difference in the hassle of getting payment. And back in 2010, San Francisco also required hundreds of millions of dollars of federal government assistance in order to complete the Doyle Drive project.

@1slotmech Жыл бұрын

US 101 runs across the bridge, the Feds can help pay for it. Plus Presidio Parkway is better and easier to drive and will survive a major earthquake more handily than Doyle would have (although it did survive Loma Prieta without damage)

@genelomas332 Жыл бұрын

One of the greatest structures ever built buy humans.. Not only is it a vital piece of road infrastructure, its art deco styling makes it a beautiful piece to look at as well.. A number of years ago I built a fully functioning, 1:160 scale replica of this bridge from more than 25,000 pieces of Lego.. It gets loads of attention and looks of amazement when I take it to exhibitions.. and with a main span of -exactly- 8 metres, people can't quite work out how it supports itself.. :)