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3 unusual facts about Yerba Buena Island


Bridge and tunnel

Residents from the East Bay typically drive or take a bus across the Bay Bridge (and Yerba Buena Tunnel) to reach San Francisco, or take BART through the Transbay Tube.

San Francisco Bicycle Plan

Cyclists will have access to the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge (between Yerba Buena Island and Oakland) when it is completed in 2013, but there are no plans to allow bicycles to access the western span (between San Francisco and Yerba Buena Island).

William Bernard

They stopped first at present-day Yerba Buena Island, where the treasure of a lost Spanish galleon was rumored by local sailors and dockworkers to be buried, but they found it deserted except for a small colony of domestic goats.



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