Lefty O'Doul Bridge, Bascule bridge in China Basin, San Francisco, United States

Lefty O'Doul Bridge is a Strauss bascule bridge carrying Third Street over the Mission Creek Channel, linking China Basin and Mission Bay beside Oracle Park. It opened in May 1933, cost 640,000 US dollars, and each opening of its bascule span takes three minutes.

Joseph Strauss, who designed the Golden Gate Bridge, created this steel structure that opened on May 12, 1933 with Mayor Angelo Rossi in attendance. The project marked an important development in San Francisco's infrastructure at that time.

The bridge took its current name in 1980 to honor a baseball manager who coached the San Francisco Seals and promoted baseball in Japan. This naming reflects the area's deep connection to sports and international cultural exchange.

The bridge carries four lanes of car traffic plus a bidirectional, class IV protected bike lane on Third Street. Opening the bascule span takes three minutes, so cyclists and drivers may wait briefly when a vessel passes through Mission Creek Channel.

The bridge appears in five films: Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983), the James Bond film A View to a Kill (1985), in which Bond drives a fire truck over the opened span, and San Andreas (2015).