Amador County, California Bridges: State Route 49 across Sutter Creek (5)

March 2013 (38.3936 Degrees, -120.8161 Degrees) Sutter Creek Bridge

One last photo of the Sutter Creek Bridge. The new highway was built to bypass Old State Route 49 (around the tourist town of Sutter Creek). We stopped there last Saturday and traffic was very slow through a town with many stop signs (traffic on the new State Route 49 is 65 mph). I asked Eric (the bridge designer) which architect helped with the aesthetics and he said it was Felix Wong who also helped me on several bridge projects. He said Felix picked the reddish barrer rails to match the patches of bare ground in the surrounding landscape.

They did a lot of earth moving to end up with a highway where you can barely register the fact that you're briefly traveling over a bridge that's 140 ft in the air.

Amador County, California Bridges: State Route 49 across Sutter Creek (5) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.