Solano County, California Bridges: Pleasants Valley Road Bridge across Pleasants Creek

January 2014 (38.47000 Degrees, -122.03972 Degrees) Pleasants Valley Road Bridge

Continuing south on Pleasants Valley Road I had the not unfamiliar experience of crossing and recrossing a creek that followed the road. However, I was surprised that none of these new crossings had replaced earlier (1907 vintage) bridges. My conclusion was that Pleasants Valley Road had been recently realigned with several new bridges (see Google Map below) to cross Pleasants Creek.

Its unfortunate that these new bridges are so uninteresting. They are all cast-in-place, single span, prestressed box girder bridges. Pleasants Creek is dramatic with shear sides and a deep canyon but the bridges were not designed to enhance the view.

This Pleasants Valley Road Bridge (23C0251) is 147.6 ft long and 35.1 ft wide. It is on a slight (15 degrees) skew and it was built in 2006 across Pleasants Creek.

Solano County, California Bridges: Pleasants Valley Road Bridge across Pleasants Creek by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.