Yerba Buena Island


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Yerba Buena Island,

300 acres (121 hectares), W Calif., in San Francisco Bay. It is the midpoint of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, which crosses the island through a tunnel. There are coast guard facilities on the island. Neighboring Treasure Island, 400 acres (162 hectares), connected to Yerba Buena by a causeway, was constructed with fill for the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939–40) and was then (1942–97) a U.S. naval air station.
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Treasure Island was created from landfill in 1937 and is connected to Yerba Buena Island by a narrow isthmus.
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Known locally as the Bay Bridge, the double-decked east span structure carries Interstate 80 and more than 280,000 vehicles per day between Oakland and the Yerba Buena Island tunnel.
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We selected 6 US communities that reported relatively few, if any, cases of influenza and no more than 1 influenza-related death while NPIs were enforced during the second wave of the 1918 pandemic: San Francisco Naval Training Station, Yerba Buena Island, California; Gunnison, Colorado; Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Western Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Trudeau Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Saranac Lake, New York; and Fletcher, Vermont (Table).
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If the Bay Bridge had only one great silver suspension span from the Embarcadero to Yerba Buena Island it would probably be more of a rival to the Golden Gate span.
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The new Bay Bridge Bike Path extension will be open this summer, allowing riders and pedestrians to travel from Oakland all the way to Yerba Buena Island.
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Thus began the process of creating, designing, and constructing the new east span from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island, which is roughly halfway between Oakland and San Francisco.
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Big plans are envisioned for the island and adjacent Yerba Buena Island, which carries the Bay Bridge tunnel.
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