San Fierro Bypass

The San Fierro Bypass ( SA 252 ) is a expressway going through San Fierro, San Andreas connecting Tierra Robada through Garver Bridge with Whetstone and Foster Valley. Built between 1964 and 1968 and when it opened, it was regarded as a top-of-the-line architectural project in engineering and planning. Built with highly-earthquake resistable concrete, it is the strongest and most maintained freeway in all of San Andreas.

Even though the freeway did not receive much damage during the earthquake in 1988, parts of the two-deck Garver Bridge collapsed due to it's elder structure, and let to that the whole bridge had to be rebuilt. The new Garver Bridge opened in 1991.

Before the construction of the bypass, the main road through San Fierro had always been Market Street, which had been connected to SA 54. Even though most traffic came from the wider SA1, they still had to merge onto the small width of Market Street once entering city proper. This created heavy traffic problems, which was the reason the bypass was built.