Los Angeles County, California Bridges: Seventh Street Bridge across the Los Angeles River

August 2013 (34.03444 Degrees, -118.22639 Degrees) Seventh Street Bridge

South of the Sixth Street Bridge is the Seventh Street Bridge.  We last looked at the Seventh Street Bridge (and the other LA River Bridges) in 2009. At that time we mentioned how the bottom deck was built for trolleys in 1910. In the 1920s they simply built a top deck above the abandoned bottom deck, which had become lower than the top of the riverbank. Although the bottom deck isn't used for traffic, it appears to be a shelter for homeless people that congregate around this part of town. Note the big cutwaters on the upstream side of the piers.

Like most of the other bridges across the L.A. River, the Seventh Street Bridge (53C1321) was seismically retrofitted in the 1990s, despite having a deck rating of 'Poor.' The bridge is 1000 ft long with three 90 ft long deck arch spans over the river.

Los Angeles County, California Bridges: Seventh Street Bridge across the Los Angeles River by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.