A Twitter account identifying as Identity Evropa posted pictures of the sign hung above the I80 tunnel on
Yerba Buena Island.
Concurrent with installation of the tower finials and crane removal, Caltrans positioned and connected the two other major spans of the new east side, the Skyway and the
Yerba Buena Island Transition Structure, to the SAS signature span.
Treasure Island was created from landfill in 1937 and is connected to
Yerba Buena Island by a narrow isthmus.
The new island was created from fill placed to the north of the existing
Yerba Buena Island, a steep rocky landmark in the middle of San Francisco Bay.
These include parts of Bayview Hill, Twin Peaks, the Brotherhood Way native woodlands, Hunter's Point, and
Yerba Buena Island.
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).
All this before reaching
Yerba Buena Island. There it absorbed the world's largest tunnel through old Goat Island before continuing as a less-lovely cantilever span and ending, anti-climactically, in a long, ho-hum tress bridge across the Oakland mud fiats.
(Attention Ketchikan and Gravina Island.) Truth be told, islands often figure prominently in bridge building: Lake Washington Floating Bridge and Mercer Island; Golden Gate Bridge and
Yerba Buena Island, to name two that are near to us.
Continue east along the Embarcadero and follow the signs to the Bay Bridge and I-80 east, which tunnels through
Yerba Buena Island to ...
The structure consisted of two back-to-back suspension spans, a tunnel on
Yerba Buena Island, a cantilevered truss span, and several through and deck truss spans.
The 30-minute trip chugs you past
Yerba Buena Island, the Oakland shipyards, and along the estuary (some trips include a stop in Alameda).