Widest bridge

With the opening on 2 September 2013 of the new 4.473-km (2.78-mile) East Span between Yerba Buena Island and Oakland, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, a complex of bridges spanning the San Francisco Bay in California, USA, features a total deck width of 78.740 m (258.33 ft), including 10 lanes of roadway, a 4.724-m-wide (15.5-ft) bike path and a gap where the central pylon supports the two bridge deck sections. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge consists of two major crossings connecting each shore with Yerba Buena Island and has a total length, including the Yerba Buena Island section, of 9.725 km (6.04 miles). The western crossing between Yerba Buena and San Francisco is 4.817 km (2.99 miles) long and is composed of two double-decked parallel suspension spans connected at a centre anchorage, and three shorter truss spans. The eastern crossing, between Yerba Buena Island and Oakland, was a cantilever bridge that has been replaced by the new structure, consisting of a 624-m-long (2,047-ft) self-anchored suspension bridge with a clear main span of 385-m (1,263-ft) supported from a single 160-m-tall (525-ft) steel tower and a 2.090-km-long (1.3-mile) elevated Skyway viaduct, which descends gradually towards the Oakland shoreline.