San Francisco uses a specialized zipper truck to move Golden Gate middle barrier as hundreds of cars pass

In San Francisco, there is a special method that is used to move the all-important Golden Gate middle barrier, and it involves a specialized zipper truck.

Forget every method you’ve seen before and hours of manual labor, as the city has things covered.

The special zipper truck was brought in a decade ago to make motorists’ lives easier.

The bridge is an iconic sight, and the process of the barrier being moved is simply astonishing to see

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The Golden Gate Bridge uses this specialized zipper truck to keep things moving

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is iconic, with the huge red infrastructure being a familiar sight to many tourists and locals.

But we bet you didn’t know that in 2015, a special method that involves a specialized zipper truck was implemented within the city in the Golden State to keep things moving on the bridge.

You see, the ‘Road Zipper System’ was installed to make things easier for commuters as they passed over the iconic skyline feature every day.

“While previously the bridge carried three lanes of traffic in either direction, the new system allowed the bridge to retain six lanes but easily be reconfigured to feature up to four lanes in one direction and two in the other,” stated Lindsay Infrascructure.

To make the ‘Road Zipper System’ fit the bridge, the company partnered up with the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District – and now the creation can be seen in action, with two workers on board.

“The truck picks up the barrier on one end and offsets the barrier by about ten feet on the other end.

“The lane change operation typically takes about 30 minutes to complete,” explained the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District.

You can catch the truck in action in the video above to discover how it really works to keep the traffic in check.

It turns out that San Francisco has lots of hidden car gems, too

So now we’ve seen the methods used by the state to keep traffic flowing, it won’t shock you to discover that the city has some impressive vehicles hidden within it.

In fact, recently, an amazing find saw one-of-60 rare Lamborghini Huracáns surface in the city with a slick exterior.

Plus, for fans of rock and roll, Elvis’s long-lost multi-million dollar BMW was discovered rotting in a San Francisco warehouse.

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