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Podcast: Sounds Like Infrastructure by Ferrovial
Episode: 09 - Megaprojects I | Building the Golden Gate: The Impossible Bridge | Ferrovial
Description: The bridge that we see today is not the bridge that chief engineer Joseph Strauss had in mind when he first pitched his idea for the Golden Gate. His 1921 design was big and clunky. Like one of those old metal railway bridges you see in the movies. Not something that would fit in with the surroundings of the San Francisco Bay. But Strauss had designed his bridge (a mix of a cantilever and suspension bridge) like this for one reason: No suspension bridge had ever spanned a gap as big as the Golden Gate before.Â