Nearby questions in Foster City

The San Mateo-Hayward Bridge has a total length of 7 miles (or 11.3 kilometers), making it the longest bridge in California. It carries the six-lane State Route 92 across San Francisco Bay between Foster City on the San Francisco Peninsula and the city of Hayward in the East Bay. The bridge comprises a 1.9-mile highrise orthotropic deck western span and Read more...

Foster City, California, was created in the 1960s on former tidal marshland near San Mateo, overlaid with an engineered landfill of sand and shell dredged from San Francisco Bay. The lands were once tidal wetlands sitting around mean sea level which were dried out in the 19th century using dikes and levees to keep out the tidal flows. The reclaimed Read more...