Commuters Get Virtual Spin On New Doyle Drive
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) -- Commuters will be able to drive the new approach to the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco well before the project is completed in 2014.
Officials with the Doyle Drive replacement project unveiled a video game Tuesday that allows commuters to experience every twist and turn of the new parkway as they leave from the Palace of Fine Arts and head toward the bridge.
The technology is the result of a partnership between project officials and Autodesk, a digital design software firm.
It will be available at the Autodesk Gallery on Market Street.
Construction began in 2009 on the 1.6-mile long parkway that will replace the narrow and seismically unsafe Doyle Drive.
The $1 billion project will include two tunnels and a reconstructed interchange with Highway 1.
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