San Mateo County, California Bridges: Ryder Park Bridge across San Mateo Creek (2)

September 2009 (37.57482 Degrees, -122.30568 Degrees) Ryder Park Bridge

Another view of the Ryder Park Bridge. This 105 ft long pedestrian arch bridge has a minimal superstructure to allow the flood waters from San Mateo Creek to flow unobstructed into San Francisco Bay. The bridge was designed by Endres Ware, which is an architecture and engineering studio located in Berkeley California.

The bridge in composed of battered concrete caissons holding a tubular steel arch rib that supports a timber deck on 'V' shaped floor beams (and a central spine) hanging from steel rods. The deck is isolated from the arch and sits lightly on the embankments on each side of the bridge.

San Mateo County, California Bridges: Ryder Park Bridge across San Mateo Creek (2) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.