11 Click to see full answer. Likewise, people ask, did anyone die building the Bay Bridge?OAKLAND — In the early 1930s, California designed and built the 8-mile Bay Bridge — west and east spans linked by the world’s biggest bore tunnel — in a mere 51/2 years. No example is more dramatic than worker safety laws: 24 men died building the original bridge; none has perished on the new span.Also, how much does Bay Bridge make a day? The Metropolitan Transportation Commission states that for the San Francisco Bay Bridge, in Fiscal Year 2014–2015: $228,421,028 in toll revenue was collected. [1] If you divide this by 365 days, this gives an average toll revenue of $625 811.04 per day. Also, did the Golden Gate Bridge ever fall? That almost happened 25 years ago today, at least according to urban legend. On May 24, 1987, 300,000 people were stuck in human gridlock for hours while getting a rare chance to cross the 1.7-mile bridge en masse on foot to celebrate the bridge’s golden anniversary.How long did it take to rebuild the Bay Bridge?The replacement span opened on September 2, 2013, almost 24 years after the earthquake. Of that, construction itself took eleven years, from 2002 to 2013. The rest of the 24 years was taken up by planning, design, engineering, and politics.