The Golden Gate Bridge claimed eleven lives were during the period of construction.Efforts to build the Golden Gate Bridge began as early as 1928. It was a distinguished engineer, Joseph Baerman Strauss, who first dreamed of it. And even though his vision was dismissed as impossibility, he held on to it, and, finally a span was erected across the Golden Gate Bridge. The actual work on the bridge began on January 5, 1933.
When the Golden Gate Bridge was completed, it silenced all of Strauss' critics. More than60 years after its completion, the Golden Gate Bridge still remains the world's tallest suspension bridge.It survived the Loma Priets earthquake in 1989, and it has been shut traffic only three times due to adverse weather conditions. Currently the span is undergoing a seismic retrofit so that it can withstand earthquakes measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale and lasting for a maximum duration of 90 seconds.
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