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Coronado Bridge in San Diego

The San Diego-Coronado Bridge, locally referred to as the Coronado Bridge, is a "prestressed concrete/steel" girder bridge, crossing over San Diego Bay in the United States, linking San Diego, California with Coronado, California. The bridge is signed as part of California State Highway 75.

The 11,288-foot-long (3,407m) bridge ascends from Coronado at a 4.67 percent grade before curving 90 degrees toward San Diego. The span reaches a maximum height of 200 feet (61m), allowing even the tallest U.S. Navy ships which operate out of the nearby Naval Station San Diego to pass underneath it. The five-lane bridge features the longest box girder in the world.

The Coronado Bridge opened in 1969, with a $1 toll collected for traffic going westbound to Coronado. In 2002, it became the last toll bridge in Southern California to discontinue tolls. Though tolls are no longer collected, the original toll booths remained intact for a short while. They were temporarily replaced with newer, more modern-looking toll booths for the filming of a car commercial in April 2007.

The bridge was designed entirely and exclusively for motor-vehicle traffic: there are no pedestrian walkways, bike paths, or shoulders ("breakdown lanes").

It is the third deadliest suicide bridge in the USA, trailing only the Golden Gate[1] in San Francisco, CA and the Aurora Bridge in Seattle, WA. Between 1972 and 2000, more than 200 suicides occurred on the bridge.

In popular culture

Aside from gaining notoriety for giving birth to the world famous Chicano Park (located beneath the bridge), in the 1980s the bridge helped further San Diego's identity as a separate and distinct city from its northern neighbor of Los Angeles when it was used as the visual centerpiece of the opening credits for the hit television show Simon & Simon, whose characters were private detectives in San Diego.

Coronado Bridge also gained notoriety from the movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004). In the scene that takes place on the bridge, Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) throws a burrito out the window and hits a motorcyclist (Jack Black) who then crashes. Instead of causing further car accidents, the angered motorcyclist confronts Ron Burgundy and proceeds to drop kick Ron Burgundy's dog, Baxter, over the side of the Coronado Bridge.

The Coronado Bridge was also featured on the television show Veronica Mars as the location where main character Logan's mother Lynn (Lisa Rinna) commits suicide. It later was the location where Logan (Jason Dohring) was framed for murder. 

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