San Mateo Bridge, San Mateo, CA, 2024.
All the pixels, but none of the traffic jams, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54129314405
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Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 Digaron-W lens, Phase One IQ4-150 back, a small amount of vertical shift.
The San Mateo Bridge, spanning the San Francisco Bay just south of SFO Airport, is relatively unremarkable except for its seemingly endless length. Sometimes known locally as the “S&M Bridge” for its frequently painful traffic congestion, looked at from the right distance, it can appear rather serine.
@mattblaze@federate.social that is the bridge that makes part two necessary in @soaproot@sfba.social’s mnemonic to remember when you have to pay a toll on a bridge in the Bay area: “You pay to get in to San Francisco or out of Oakland.”
@mattblaze@federate.social “S&M Bridge”? Don’t recall that name, but then that bridge was only a part of my regular commute for a few months back in the mid '90s. Wish I could have said the same about the SF-Oakland bay bridge.
The back and forth I remember was more in line with calling it the “San Mateo” bridge vs the “Hayward” bridge.
