October 17, 1989. At 5:04 PM, the Loma Prieta earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area—causing a catastrophic failure of the Nimitz Freeway’s double-deck structure. In seconds, the upper ...

But only a little more than 30 years ago, a large portion of San Francisco’s waterfront was occupied by a double-decker elevated freeway that took drivers from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay ...

Now, the viaduct is gone. Completed in 1959, the double decker freeway was viewed by many as a barrier. There were even discussions of replacing it as early as the '60s. The writing was on the ...

The double-decker freeway connecting I-880 to the Bay Bridge approach violently shook from the quake, bringing the upper deck crashing down onto cars on the lower deck. A span of the Bay Bridge ...