It was a routine stretch of freeway that in 15 seconds in 1989 became known as a place of great tragedy and heroism. Now, one block next to the former double-decker Cypress Freeway has been ...

This 6.9 earthquake in the Bay Area caused the double-decker freeway to collapse. The public was horrified by news coverage, videos and photos of crushed cars on the lower deck and scores of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Such as whether the bridges will be single- or double-decker structures, whether they'll carry a total of eight lanes of traffic or 10, and whether the project will maintain the existing offramps ...