The Red Car Bridge connects Silver Lake to Red Car River Park just outside Atwater Village. Located just south of the heavily trafficked Glendale-Hyperion bridge, it allows pedestrians and bicyclists to avoid the traffic snarl where Hyperion Avenue turns into Glendale Boulevard. It will also provide a vital throughway between the two neighborhoods when the Glendale-Hyperion bridge undergoes a seismic retrofit in the near future.
The bridge is built on five concrete pilings, the remnants of a former bridge that once supported tracks for the city’s long gone (but fondly remembered) Pacific Red Car Trolley. Honoring the former street car line, it features a red-painted steel stripe that runs down each side of the bridge. The $4 million bridge opened in January 2021 and, with its 400-foot span, is one of the longer bridges across the river. ~LA Explorers Guild
Not sure about the four million dollars figure as I read elsewhere the cost of these three bridges over the River de Los Angeles ballooned from an original 14 million to over 47 million. So with La Kretz and Taylor Yards costing 16 and 21 respectively, my advanced maths skills tell me that 10 million is the unavoidable conclusion. Maybe I missed something. I'm not a civil engineer, though I did study it in school. And I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. You'd think building on the existing piers of the historic Red Car trolley line bridge would be a bit cheaper, wouldn't you?
Cache is just bigger than the traditional "film canister" and is nearly enveloped in concrete. Bringen Sie Ihren eigenen Bleistift.